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#126103 03/25/04 08:51 PM
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For those of you who may have missed it, there was a spot today on All Things Considered about that terrible substance, dihydrogenmonoxide.


#126104 03/25/04 10:25 PM
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Yeah, that stuff is hazardous, but I fear the ubiquity of salicylic acid.


#126105 03/26/04 02:44 AM
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Dear Fiberbabe: but if many vegetables didn't sneak
salicylates into us, we'd all be vulnerable to myocardial
infarctions.


#126106 03/26/04 08:15 AM
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I fear the ubiquity of salicylic acid
Fear of ubiquitous things is of limited survival value: first of all they can't be that bad because otherwise we would not be here - and second, they are difficult to escape.
Thus, the fear may well do more harm than the thing feared.


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the fear may well do more harm than the thing feared.

Surely right, Werner, and now a widespread modern phenomenon. Is that the cue for a coinage?
~ which is not the same as a queue for a coin age, or a Q for a quoinage
Perhaps something along the lines of fauxbia?



#126108 03/26/04 11:00 AM
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Hey, c'mon, weis bier. She said she feared salicylic acid's ubiquity. She din't say she feared salicylic acid.


#126109 03/26/04 01:38 PM
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She din't say she feared salicylic acid
Yeah, but didn't she mean it?!




#126110 03/26/04 01:48 PM
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Yeah, but didn't she mean it?!, he riposted, adroitly crossing threads.


#126111 03/26/04 01:50 PM
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he riposted, adroitly crossing threads

Yeahbut®, you're assuming he did it intentionally.



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