Penn And Teller Get Hippies To Sign Water Banning Petition

Posted July 31st, 2007 at 03:27 PM by eggs ackley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

Think you'd get more signatures in Champaign or Urbana?

 

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Glock21's picture
On July 31st, 2007 at 05:06 PM, Glock21 said:

Another good article on this phenomenon at snopes:  

Dihydrogen Monoxide

Claim:   A junior high school student won a science fair by circulating a report about the dangers of 'dihydrogen monoxide.'

Status:   True.

Includes a bit about the California city that actually tried to ban it:

"In March 2004 the California municipality of Aliso Viejo (a suburb in Orange County) came within a cat's whisker of falling for this hoax after a paralegal there convinced city officials of the danger posed by this chemical. The leg-pull got so far as a vote's having been scheduled for the City Council on a proposed law that would have banned the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events because (among other things) they were made with DHMO, a substance that could "'threaten human health and safety.'"

 

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Glock21 Op/Ed

Oil Man's picture
On August 1st, 2007 at 11:23 AM, Oil Man said:

Hoaxes abound out there in the real, not just the political, world.  I offer but one small example; magnets sold for installation on your water pipes to provide 'soft' water.  Fortunately for the magnet marketers, 'there is a fool born every minute'.

On August 1st, 2007 at 11:32 PM, PropertyRights said:

How about all the fools right here, buying bottled water that's no better than our tap water..

Glock21's picture
On August 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 AM, Glock21 said:

When I buy bottled water it is mainly for the bottle... out and about and need some water with me.  Of couse I tend to save the bottles so I can reuse them with tap water later (since many brands are nothing but purified tap water anyways).  It's pretty absurd to keep buying new bottles of water every day though, I agree.  At roughly a buck a bottle it comes to being more expensive than gasoline!

 

There's been some talk on this subject over at Roscoe Unscripted:

Bottled Water Woes

Take My Water Challenge

 

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Glock21 Op/Ed

On August 2nd, 2007 at 12:14 PM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?

On August 2nd, 2007 at 12:43 PM, Narc said:

Think you'd get more signatures in Champaign or Urbana?

I bet you'd get more signatures the farther you went from the university. Americans are very, very ignorant about even basic science. It has nothing to do with hippie-ness.