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Date:         Mon, 17 Jul 1995 17:10:00 PDT
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From:         Berry Kercheval <kerch@parc.xerox.com>
Subject:      Re: Ear Gas... 

>>>7039ckrah@umbsky.cc.umb.edu said: > As I cut, gas started coming out and I turned > to avoid getting it in my eyes. It went into my ear instead. Man did this > hurt. Massive ear ache for about 2 hrs. I used a diluted solution of > hand cleaner/distilled water to flush it out. Its been two days and I've > been wandering around south Boston. Just kidding, careful with the GAS!

Woof! That can be VERY VERY bad. Remember, Claudius killed Hamlet's dad by pouring poison in his ear[1] and it ain't just fiction; you can get bad stuff in your blood stream this way.

Be careful out there.

--berry

[1] Hamlet, Act 1 Scene V:

Ghost: Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment; whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd:

See http://www.gh.cs.usyd.edu.au/~matty/Shakespeare/ for the full text


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