auxilary Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 SoCal city falls victim to Internet hoax, considers banning items made with water Associated Press ALISO VIEJO, Calif. - City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production. Then they learned that dihydrogen monoxide - H2O for short - is the scientific term for water. "It's embarrassing," said City Manager David J. Norman. "We had a paralegal who did bad research." The paralegal apparently fell victim to one of the many official looking Web sites that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as "an odorless, tasteless chemical" that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled. As a result, the City Council of this Orange County suburb had been scheduled to vote next week on a proposed law that would have banned the use of foam containers at city-sponsored events. Among the reasons given for the ban were that they were made with a substance that could "threaten human health and safety." The measure has been pulled from the agenda, although Norman said the city may still eventually ban foam cups. "Our main concern is with the Aliso Creek watershed," Norman said. "If you get Styrofoam into the water and it breaks apart, it's virtually impossible to clean up." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 That totally reminds me of the Penn and Teller show "Bullsh!t" (sorry Nic - that's the name of the show). But that is WAY dumber than the episode where they were getting petition signers at the Earth day rally to sign something supporting a ban on dyhydrogen monoxide. The paralegal had time to look it over. I do like the "deadly if inhaled" bit. Clever. Maybe not quite as dumb as the other "Bullsh!t" bit which almost made my wife puke. They had a "mucus mask" treatment that they were getting people to subject themselves to in a shopping mall. People who wanted to try it had about 10 snails put on their faces for a couple minutes. Nothing like 10 snails creating a big foamy snail trail mess on your face and then showing that footage to millions of people. That show was the only good thing about Showtime... Jon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auxilary Posted March 16, 2004 Author Share Posted March 16, 2004 Reminds me of The Man Show episode, where they asked women to sign petitions to end the Women's Suffrage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two40MuscleZ Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Only in Aliso Viejo! News at 11...LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zguy95135 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 our science teacher showed us that a while back, heres the sitehttp://www.dhmo.org/ I thought it was real too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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