[lemonoman]

So I drank a little more than I should have last night, and I remember most of what happened.

I remember challenging a geographer that I was with to list off all of the 'trace ions/minerals' that were listed on the side of his distilled water bottle.  Funny thing, he couldn't do it.

I remember yelling to the world about p-orbitals, and how if they're not totally filled sometimes.

I remember yelling to the world about pi-bonds, and how oxygen has them.  And that without those pi-bonds, oxygen wouldn't be the same and it would be a neurotoxin and whatnot (Which may or may not be true, and we'll never know since O2 with a bond order of 1 doesn't exist

They say that when you're drunk is when your 'true self' comes out.  I'm only 19, and it looks like I'm in the right profession!!

P.S. Legal drinking age is 19 in Canada, before any Americans comment on the age thing

[GCT]

you're a chemist in my book  And yes, drinking and chemistry go hand in hand, particularly if you're an analytical chem major

[Oldtimer]

I remember a story I read once about some chemist in the middle ages. On his wedding nite he got totally plowed on wine. Then he went up to his bedroom loft with his new bride to 'do his deed'. After his nuptual bliss, he reached over to his bedside table and grabbed a flask and took a big swig from it.

In the darkened and poorly illuminated room he did not notice until the next day that he had downed a substantial quantity of Mercury he had left in the flask.

At his post mortum years later it wasdiscovered that the mercury stil remained in his system and just had 'piled up' in recesses of his internal cavities somehow.

He had died from injuries sustained in a duel over something but had lived in good health up until that time many years.

I think I'll have a beer .

[jdurg]

"Little Johnny took a drink,
but now he'll drink no more,
for what he thought was H2O was H2SO4."

 

[Oldtimer]

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I've always liked that one. Thanks.

Andy

[jdurg]

I've also found that drinking and chemistry typically results in new holes being found in your clothing, and odd colored sores and stains on your exposed flesh.