In a message dated 5/30/05 10:57:44 AM Central Daylight Time, 
new...@aapt.net.au writes:


> I played with the mercury out of a broken thermometer when I was little.  I 
> probably touched it to see it dissipate into little globules, though my 
> mother did tell me how dangerous mercury was.

We've probably all done that.  And I doubt that our Mothers knew that it was 
dangerous.       MA