Pointless ExperimentsPavlov's Frog writes: I once spent 20 minutes with my eyes closed to see what it was like being blind. I smashed my knee on the kitchen cupboard, and decided I'd be better off deaf as you can still watch television.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 24 Jul 2008, 12:00)
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Our chemistry teacher (well one of the young and hippy ones)told us of a story when he was a research chemist at Monsanto in Leicester as part of his PGCE. They had a store of sodium (no idea why and in retrospect I don't wan't to know) kept under oil.
He got hold of this and chopped about half a pound off the end of a cylinder of this silvery magic.
Then leant out of the window and dropped it into the Grand Union Canal next to the labs.
Cue the Bomb Squad (this was the 70's, big bad IRA time) and about 6 fire engines trying to douse this spitting piece of hell by chucking water at it.
They don't teach chemistry to firemen.
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