[Madam Corvax]

OK, another pointless random thought:

There is a report circulating in my country that All Drinks With “Cola” in Their Name (ADWCITN) are bad for you. Among the rumours repeated during idle chats on trains, busses and dentist’s waiting rooms are:

1.ADWCITN are successfully used for removing rust from old screws, bolts, threads etc.
2.Workers in plants producing ADWCITN frequently use their produce to clean production lines
3.A tooth left for 24 hours in ADWCITN dissolves completely

It was the last of these “beliefs” that inspired me to do a little experiment.

Not that I believed it. Common sense would tell anybody that point No 3 cannot be true, because otherwise the whole America would squeeze dry the companies producing ADWCITN in litigation for teeth loss – and a significant part of the whole world enjoying their ADWCITN would be toothless, too.

But this reasoning does not stop these rumours. And I could, of course, in clear conscience say “falsehood”, basing on the above reasoning, but I thought an experiment would have more weight as an argument.

Last Friday I had my rear lower right molar removed (one of the so called “wisdom teeth”). I could not waste such an opportunity. I asked if I could keep it, and no sooner had I got home then I sank the molar in an eggcupfull of ADWCITN, “diet” or “light” variety, because it is said to be more nasty.

After 24 hours, shaking with anticipation I fished for the molar, half- expecting it NOT to be there. The tooth, however, was intact. More detailed examination revealed, that
1.Visual inspection could not detect any mass loss
2.The enamel was not visibly damaged
3.Moreover, around 70% of the tooth surface was covered in brown sediment, the colour of ADWCITN.

So, if anybody ever tells you that a tooth immersed in ADWCITN dissolves in 24 hours – contradict it at once. I checked. It does not.

[Just your average movie goer]

Well done, Madam. You may have debunked the last of the great childhood myths.

Chewing gum will NOT stay in your digestive system for seven years if you swallow it. Eating the crust of bread will NOT make your hair go curly. And lastly....

[jariten]

eating carrots does NOT allow you to see in the dark. and lastly...

[Amber-Nicole]

Eating the crust of bread will NOT make your hair go curly.

I've never heard that one before.

[Jen]

You never heard that? Lucky you! I was told many a time by adults that if I would eat the nasty crusts I disdained. it would make my hair curly.

More frequently, though, my dad's brothers (who, in retrospect, were in their early to mid twenties when I was a kid and must have thought this was hilarious) would look at the pile of uneaten crusts on my plate, and on the plates of my younger sisters, and intone, "You should eat those. If you eat your crusts it'll put hair on your chest."

Then they would snaffle the uneaten crusts off our plates.

[Jane Sherwood]

I dunno...my hair was nice and straight for eleven years, and then when I got over my hatred for crust it turned all curly and frizzy and awful.



Extra Random Thought: I do hereby declare that I will never get sick of the theme to Beetlejuice. Movie or cartoon version.

EVER.

This post has been edited by Jane Sherwood: 27 September 2004 - 10:05 AM

[Amber-Nicole]

Nope, never heard that. I've always been encouraged to eat crust, as to not be wasteful. If I didn't, I would get lectures about starving Ethipoian children who would be happy to have a good piece of crust.

[SimeSublime]

I hated that argument, as I couldn't see how me not eating my crusts would help them, and so I just got depressed about it for no reason. I would also point out that my parents should buy a starving ethiopian kid so that I could give him my crusts.

I also thought the curly hair argument was stupid, as I didn't want curly hair. As a child I had a fairly large mullet going on and curly hair just didn't fit with it.

[Jane Sherwood]

Retaliation to the Starving Ethiopian Kids Line: "Well why don't you just pack it up and mail it to them?"

[sinister grinner]

if ethiopians want my crust, then i'll just have to ship it over to them. actually i think they would prefer the sandwich.

actually, i liked crust when i was a kid, still do. i didn't care about crust as long as it wasn't on toast.(especially texas toast).

if you swallow bubble gum you'll fart bubble gum bubbles.

[sinister grinner]

oh, i'm sorry jane, i didn't see the last post you made, if had, i would have just agreed.

plus now this is my 500th post.

toot. did you know that cat urine glows under a black light. ( and no, i don't know this from experience.)

[Jane Sherwood]

No I did not...

...

Hey, did you know that under a black light, I actually look like I have a tan?

[J m HofMarN]

I know that you can see dead skin under black light and that supposedly gyzym stains glow under blacklight. I remember all kinds of expirements I did with blacklights when I was high. They make everything so cool and glowy!

[Jane Sherwood]

...That, and you can tell if something really is clean or not.

[sinister grinner]

yeah, you tooted. also, ( and people who knew me before know that i've used these facts in an old topic), did you know that banging your head against a wall burns 150 calories an hour.


it would have been weird if i wrote the wall instead of a wall, think about it.