Completely and totally off-topic and without any merit whatsoever

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> I'm surprised nobody has thought of the obvious: mercury is
> considerably denser than glass, so the glass would float on the
> surface.  All you have to do is skim it.  Never mind skimmed milk,
> Sellam, you can have skimmed quicksilver ;-)

I noticed it was actually staying on the surface, but I don't want to
touch it!  That'd be dangerous.  I just want to quaff it.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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