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- From: jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton)
- Subject: Re: [F] How to get rid of snails?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.171008.2154@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- References: <1992Dec19.055922.27580@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Dec23.134902.27650@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Dec24.182537.27383@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:10:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.182537.27383@news2.cis.umn.edu> sdebol@htlv.med.umn.edu (Steven Debol (Nelson)) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec23.134902.27650@cbfsb.cb.att.com> jjd1@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (james.j.dutton) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec19.055922.27580@news2.cis.umn.edu> sdebol@tsp.med.umn.edu (Steven Debol (Nelson)) writes:
- >>>>
- >>>>>Why, why its unnatural. I suggest if you don't want to stress the fish
- >>>>>stay away from chlorox.
- >>>>
- >>>Just to be obnoxious here folks... Bleach (or hypochlorous acid)
- >>>is hardly "unnatural"--whatever that means. A number of different
- >>>organisms (including humans...) have cells which generate HOCl
- >>>as an antimicrobial agent--is that "natural" enough for you?
- >>
- >>NO.
- >>
- >>OK everybody use bleach. I apologize. I'm ludicrous.
- >>If I kept an open mind in 25 years of keeping fish I wouldn't have any
- >>live ones. I've learned something.
- >>
- >I wasn't commenting on the use of bleach in a fishtank--one
- >way or the other. I was simply responding to the statement
- >of bleach being "unnatural".
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- It was an expression used as a joke Steve. That's what it meant.
- And do have a good day, and don't start a sentence with And.
- ^- a tip not meant to implicate that Steve would ever
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- do such a thing.
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