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City Officials Almost Ban Foam Cups

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-thats-just-funny dept.

localhost00 writes "The city of Aliso Viejo, CA nearly banned foam cups when they learned they are produced from a substance known as 'dihydrogen monoxide.' A paralegal working for the city apparantly found a professionally designed web site put up to describe the dangerous properties of this chemical. Apparantly, the report about Dihydrogen Monoxide was written by a then 14-year-old Nathan Zohner who was researching the gullibility of fifty ninth graders."

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  1. OT: Ruled by Stupid Fsck by Lead+Butthead · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What become laws has everything to do with who's ear you got and nothing to do with facts. Ahhh the beauty of American democracy.

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  2. Re:Urban legend? by dan+dan+the+dna+man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    MM nice, RTFA headline? The link is in there - nicely relinked sir! You must not be new here ;)

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  3. Water by rufey · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    A friend of mine in grad school years ago wrote this nice little poem about dihydrogen monoxide.
    It can drown you,
    It can suffocate you,
    It can boil you,
    It can steam you,
    It can freeze you,
    It can crush you,
    It can tear you apart,
    And without it
    you'll die.
  4. Re:You know they forgot... by DaveHowe · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    *FX* - hits author with the +5 Spikey Club of "you didn't get the joke the first time"

    :)

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  5. Re:Scientifically illiterate population by cloudship_tacitus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    as a business person i can say with confidence that business has nothing to do with anything.

    /continues to collect his paycheck for doing nothing

  6. Re:They SHOULD ban styrofoam by ichimunki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why did parent poster get modded down (flamebait/troll, not off-topic, I note) for suggesting they should ban styrofoam? Yes, the dihydrogen monoxide bit of this is fairly amusing, but criticizing the use of styrofoam is a troll? I don't think so. It's a perfectly fair question considering the objections raised (petroleum product, non-biodegradable, toxins released when burned, possible leaching into food)... are these concerns pure myth or scare-mongering on the same level as the H20 spoof? If so, can you prove it?

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  7. Re:You know they forgot... by dr-suess-fan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But that's OK, cuz 'redundant' was put in twice.

  8. You'd think that by the 59th grade by 93,000 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you wouldn't need to have your gullibility tested anymore.

    Thank you, I'm here all week. Tip your waitress.

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  9. Fifty ninths graders by Dios · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Did anyone else read that as 59th graders? Geez I didn't realize grades went so high.

    I gotta slow down.

  10. Re:I for one, Welcome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    *H2O is dying.

  11. Re:*sigh* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    >California attempts ban on Dihydrogen Monoxide - Monday March 15, @08:47AM,
    >rejected.
    >Posted some time ago.

    Yeah, and it's been posted today. Perhaps your write up sucked, or SlashDot had already posted a bunch of stories that day? Who cares - what's your point - that they've got it in for you?

    Snap out of it man, it's just a website!

  12. Re:Come on CA by dominyx · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You wish. Florida is teh most retated!

  13. Re:Come on CA by jimsum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It is much easier to choke someone with water, and choking on water is much more likely to cause death. Sorry, water is still more dangerous.

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