CA town almost bans water!

[FatSlob]

********This is too funny******



www.sacbee.com/state_wire/story/8518740p-9447551c.html

City falls victim to Internet hoax, considers banning items made with water
The Associated Press
Last Updated 3:12 a.m. PST Monday, March 15, 2004
ALISO VIEJO, Calif. (AP) - City officials were so concerned about the potentially dangerous properties of dihydrogen monoxide that they considered banning foam cups after they learned the chemical was used in their production.

Then they learned that dihydrogen monoxide - H2O for short - is the scientific term for water.

"It's embarrassing," said City Manager David J. Norman. "We had a paralegal who did bad research."

The paralegal apparently fell victim to one of the many official looking Web sites that have been put up by pranksters to describe dihydrogen monoxide as "an odorless, tasteless chemical" that can be deadly if accidentally inhaled.

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[northzax]

1. scientific illiteracy strikes again

and people say science education isn't important...

[Ruby Romaine]

2. What do u expect? That's Orange County ! Nixonland!

[SoCalDem]

3. John Stossell did this a few years ago..

to prove how people never read petitions.. They just sign anything on a clipboard..

[damnraddem]

4. You laugh, but:

everyone who has ever imbibed dihydrogen monoxide has ultimately died.

I've always loved this 'cause.' I'm happy to see that some public officials have run afoul of it.

Now, if we can just get a school board to adopt a policy of 'teaching the controversy' about the germ theory of disease.

;-)

[liberalhistorian]

5. Well, as a college-educated

paralegal, I can tell you that that particular paralegal had to have his or her head up their butt not to have done any further verifications research and to just take at face value anything they see on the net!

[tjwash]

6. Paralegal was probably just a good...

...creationist that thinks that the world was created 6000 years ago, and that science is really blasphemy that does not mean anything.

[Az]

7. This is real old

Predates the internet even. I think I saw this circulating back in Highschool.

[FatSlob]

8. You are correct that the joke is real

The funny thing is that a town got sucked into it.