Front panel material way OT)

[Paul Perry]

At 10:01 PM 12/10/00 -0400, Terry Bowman wrote:

>ever taken. The pros attach a candle to the end of a long stick.
>
As a child, I tried this & was singuarly unimpressed.
So I filled a balloon with acetylene (home made from carbide lumps)
and held a match under it.
And ended up in hospital.
Having learnt a little about the energy lurking in the carbon triple bond.

The only high point was a few weeks later when a doctor changing the dressing 
was pretty shocked because he thought my arm had turned black for some
awful necrotic reason.. he was relieved when I said it was soot!

paul 'toast' perry Melbourne Australlia