Completely and totally off-topic and without any merit whatsoever

[John Lawson]

On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>
> I've got some quicksilver that I liberated from some evacuated glass tubes
> by cracking the tips of the tubes and then emptying the contents into a
> container.  Unfortunately, some tiny glass shards got into the container
> and is now mixed in.  How can I filter out the glass shards so they don't
> cut up my esophagus when I drink it?

   Ya sure ya ain't been *sniffing* it...????

  Don't let them damn EPAnazis read this - there'll be a HazNat team camped 
out for a year at the cordoned-off and domed-over hole in the ground what 
used to be that building - of course now it's a SuperFund Site - our Tax 
Dollars hard at work...

  As for filtering Hg - just decant it slowly and carefully from one 
container to another - you'll get most of it - then discard the remaining 
residue in a Gummint Approved Fashion - lest you attract the Unwanted 
Attention of Herr UberGeneral AshKrofft and his Modernische 
ShutzStaffen...

   Heil^H^H^H^H Cheers

John