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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. more like by dsanfte · · Score: 2, Troll

    More like "Living in California is known to cause an unknown disease." A disease of the mind.

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  2. Re:Our education is responsible for this, not desi by TheLink · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well if you guys were smart Diebold won't be allowed to make voting machines for your elections, Bush would have had a lot more difficulty "linking" Saddam to the Al Qaeda, lying the US into war etc etc.

    Smart people can be rather inconvenient to the powers that be. The Chinese Gov has imprisoned and executed many a smart scholar.

    In the USA they seem to have found alternatives...

    Maybe they put something in your water... :).

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  3. Re:dihydrogen-monoxide vs Creationism by jimmy_dean · · Score: 0, Troll

    You sir are a troll. If I had some moderator points right now, I'd mark you as such. But I don't, so all I can do is point you out as one. Get a life.

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