Re: Only the first sip

Phaedrus (stimpy@hobbes.kirtland.cc.mi.us)
Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:50:13 -0500 (EST)

> Dave,
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> It is impossible for me to imagine anyone who has the intelligence to be
> able to get on and read messages off of this List, that doesn't not know
> that cyanide is poisonous. It one of the first things we learned as kids,
> the danger is as much common knowledge as the danger of jumping off of
*snip*

Some people aren't as comforable with Darwinism as the rest of us =)

Peter Howey
Kirtland College
Michigan, USA

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On Thu, 29 Jan 1998, Richard Sullivan wrote:

> buildings is. If you were to do a test and asked people to name a poison,
> number one on the list would be cyanide. it is probably the only one half
> the population could name.
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> Your intent is honorable, but Jeese, give us a break. If anyone has gotten
> this far and doesn't know that cyanide is poisonous. is in grave danger of
> being killed any moment by a host of far more subtle dangers.
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> With respect.
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> --Dick Sullivan
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> At 10:42 AM 1/29/98 -0500, you wrote:
> ><< >Doesn't cyanide also taste like almonds?
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> > Just the first sip...
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> >!!! Cyanide is DEADLY poisonous !!!
> >!!! Cyanide is DEADLY poisonous !!!
> >!!! Cyanide is DEADLY poisonous !!!
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> >Please don't joke like about it! I think we are assuming that everybody knows
> >about this fact, but maybe that is not true. We don't know who is reading the
> >list. People from all over the world subscribe to the list. We just don't
> know
> >what everybody's knowledge is. If it just so happened that one person who
> >doesn't know decided to taste the almond taste....
> >
> >Of course we will never know if he / she did because we will never hear from
> >him / her.
> >
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