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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. Urban legend? by Burb · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You know, I'm sure there's an urban legend along these lines somewhere. Anyone want to check www.snopes.com? Ah yes...

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  2. HAHAHHAHAHA! by dewc · · Score: -1, Redundant

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! :P

  3. For those who are missing the joke... by LostCluster · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Dihydrogen monooxide... two hidrogens, one oxygen... H2O... water.

  4. Re:They SHOULD ban styrofoam by Fishead · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Woah woah woah, perhaps we are missing something here. Lets analyze should we?

    Dihydrogen -> 2 Hydrogen

    Monoxide -> 1 Oxygen

    Combined?

    H2O

    Sound familiar now?

  5. Penn and Teller did this too... by TexVex · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Penn and Teller did something similar in an episode of Bullshit. To demonstrate how the tree hugging hippies will sign any petition to ban anything if phrased properly, they told people how dihydrogen monoxide was a powerful solvent used in manufacturing and about how it can damage the environment and cause various health problems like excessive urination.

    Very funny.

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  6. Penn and Teller by RandomDesign · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Penn and Teller did this joke on their Showtime series "Bullshit". They went to an environmental rally in D.C. and had someone try to get people to sign a petition to ban "Dihydrogen Monoxide". She got hundreds of signatures, even from the person that organized the event.

    http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do?_requestid= 28 661
    Episode 13 - Environmental Hysteria

  7. Politicians Not As Smart As 6th Graders by thelizman · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In a survey of 50 6th grade students, one rightly recognized that DHMO is water. Of hundreds of city officials, how many had to be told this fact?

    Yes. Trust government, indeed.