just had to post this.
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The Associated Press
Last Updated 11:41 a.m. PST Monday, March 15, 2004
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production.
Then they learned that dihydrogen monoxide - H2O for short - is the scientific term for water.
"It's embarrassing," said City Manager David J. Norman. "We had a paralegal who did bad research."
The paralegal apparently fell victim to one of the many official looking Web sites that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as "an odorless, tasteless chemical" that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled.
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Did they not take chemistry in high school where they teach you how to name chemicals like that? Nice going city council.
..I remember reading a while back a group of senators were discussing what the PH level at public pools should be set at, one of them said 8, one replied, no it should be 7 (which is right, it should be 7...maybe slightly slightly lower because of the chlorine or bromine), so one guy thought, the lower the better! and suggested 0...mmm...most powerful acid ever..