28 Jan
2012
28 Jan
'12
2:42 p.m.
On Sat, 28 Jan 2012, Tony Duell wrote:
I am fond of pointing out that if the so-called
'celebrities' (pop stars,
footballers, etc) all vanished overnight then life would go on much the
same. If all the dustment disappeeared overnight, there would be major
helth problems in a couple of weeks. So which is acutally more valuable?
" . . . until they were all suddenly wiped out by a virulent disease
contracted from a dirty telephone." (demise of Golgafrincham, where they
got rid of the useless third of society - HHGTTG by Doglas Adams)
A hint for Ph.D students : If the sink in the lab is
blocked, by all
means try to unblock it. But if you do so by firing tyhe compressed air
line down it, make sure a senior member of staff is not looking down the
plughole of an adjacent sink. I forget to check this, and said member of
staff ended up wit ha jet of drity water in his face....
and thus, REAL world safety procedures were learned.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com