Completely and totally off-topic and without any meritwhatsoever

[Joe R.]

At 12:17 PM 9/7/04 +0000, you wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 23:14 -0700, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> I've got some quicksilver that I liberated from some evacuated glass tubes
>
>Actually, that reminds me - I saw a chap in the UK trying to get rid of
>several kilos of the stuff a short while ago. I can't help thinking that
>*something* interesting could be made using it, although I'm not sure
>what. 
>

   Fulminate! What else!  Actaully Mercury a lot of uses. Dissovling and
purifying gold is just one of them.

    Joe