How do they make the smoke black or white?
They add "special chemicals" (I haven't found any mention of which ones, but in my car, coolant = white and oil = black) to the paper ballots when they burn them.
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right. River: It's the popular theory.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Apr 18, 2005 10:03:33 am PDT #6619 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Steph L. - Apr 18, 2005 10:04:53 am PDT #6620 of 10001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ouise, I'm sorry to hear about your sister. Any side effects have a *good* chance of only being short-term, and will subside once her body gets all the drug metabolized out and her body recovers from the sudden trauma.
shrift - Apr 18, 2005 10:06:08 am PDT #6621 of 10001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Much ~ma to Ouise.
The puppy is cute!
Cindy needs to write me a note so I can ditch work.
I just said, "Oh, I'm an evil bastard," as I sent an e-mail in which I attempted to pass off a problem child to someone else. But upon reflection, what she wants is not my job, and I sent her to the person whose job it is, therefore I should not consider myself an evil bastard.
Except I am an evil bastard, because wow, I don't wish that person on my worst enemy.
Does anyone have a worst enemy these days? I have a bane of my existence, but enemy, not so much.
Betsy HP - Apr 18, 2005 10:06:39 am PDT #6622 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Tom DeLay is my worst enemy.
Dana - Apr 18, 2005 10:12:22 am PDT #6623 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Enemies take energy. My dislikes are generally petty.
Except, possibly, for Tom DeLay.
erikaj - Apr 18, 2005 10:12:26 am PDT #6624 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It's between Cheney and, well, me. (I'm negative but truthful, huh?)
Jesse - Apr 18, 2005 10:17:13 am PDT #6625 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ah, chemicals! I thought maybe they were burning different things.
Jesse, they don't have to do anything to make it black; that's its default. To make it white, they add extra holiness.
Yeah, of course my coworker smart-ass-ed-ly pointed out that all the Cardinals are burning is the paper. It's God who changes the color of the smoke!
Betsy HP - Apr 18, 2005 10:18:05 am PDT #6626 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I thought maybe they were burning different things.
Back in the day they added wet straw to make it burn white. Now we have technology for whiter! brighter! smoke.
sumi - Apr 18, 2005 10:23:17 am PDT #6627 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Oz is a cutie-patootie.
It must be time for all people to pick-up their baby dachshunds . . . one of my former co-workers just sent me a picture of her mother's new adorable long-haired dachsie pup.
tommyrot - Apr 18, 2005 10:24:23 am PDT #6628 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
It must be time for all people to pick-up their baby dachshunds
Or else it's all part of some sinister alien plot to take over the world.