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<p>[QUOTE="User 67, post: 18253, member: 67"]On the subject of ironing money (wouldn't it be easier to keep a supply of unused bills in your safe?): As a teen I worked in the kitchen of one of the fancy hotel restaurants downtown, my job was to polish the silver in a tumbling machine what was filled with bee-bees. The man who trained me said there was a hotel in San Francisco that used a machine like that to polish coins, which they would trade at the front desk for the grimey change that visitors had gotten in public. The reason, was so that the ladies wouldn't dirty their white cotton gloves while out shopping.</p><p><br /></p><p>afa: Mercury was often used in mass produced electronics (for soldering, circuitry, etc.) and since most people toss the spent bulb in the trash, and some cities burn trash, the mercury gets into the atmosphere. Your body accumulates mercury and never gets rid of it. Never. The term 'mad hatter' comes from mercury poisoning, as mercury was used when shaping and steaming the felt, all hatters eventually went crazy.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have <i>always suspected</i> that sentiments like "The government should get out of everyones' life" and "I'll be danged if I let them ban ______ in my state" is one of the reasons, like hatters, that Tea Baggers are so nutty.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="User 67, post: 18253, member: 67"]On the subject of ironing money (wouldn't it be easier to keep a supply of unused bills in your safe?): As a teen I worked in the kitchen of one of the fancy hotel restaurants downtown, my job was to polish the silver in a tumbling machine what was filled with bee-bees. The man who trained me said there was a hotel in San Francisco that used a machine like that to polish coins, which they would trade at the front desk for the grimey change that visitors had gotten in public. The reason, was so that the ladies wouldn't dirty their white cotton gloves while out shopping. afa: Mercury was often used in mass produced electronics (for soldering, circuitry, etc.) and since most people toss the spent bulb in the trash, and some cities burn trash, the mercury gets into the atmosphere. Your body accumulates mercury and never gets rid of it. Never. The term 'mad hatter' comes from mercury poisoning, as mercury was used when shaping and steaming the felt, all hatters eventually went crazy. I have [I]always suspected[/I] that sentiments like "The government should get out of everyones' life" and "I'll be danged if I let them ban ______ in my state" is one of the reasons, like hatters, that Tea Baggers are so nutty.[/QUOTE]
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