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- From: graham@cs.washington.edu (Stephen Graham)
- Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.003959.20946@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
- References: <1992Dec23.234214.27493@Cadence.COM> <1992Dec25.114527.27420@u.washington.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 00:39:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec25.114527.27420@u.washington.edu> dst@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dale Tanigawa) writes:
- >There are a few legends here at the UW involving Drumheller Fountain, which
- >is bordered on one side by the chemistry building. Drumheller is a nice
- >big pondish sized fountain. One of the legends is that someone launched a
- >can of sodium from the chemistry building into the fountain---sodium reacts
- >explosively with water.
-
- Yep. At the college I went to, about the third week in each term, there
- would be a dull boom about 10:20 some morning. And people would turn
- to each other, and say "Oh, Prof. [mumble] is teaching Chem 23.
- He's just dumped some sodium into Lyman Lakes again." Fairly common
- experiment. But amusing.
- --
- Stephen Graham
- graham@cs.washington.edu uw-beaver!june!graham
-