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Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 11:42:12 AM   
stormysouth


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Status: offline 		I need a little advice from ya'all please. Went fleaing this weekend and came across a very unusual poison (I think). It as a white and dark brown little whiskey crock looking thing with Mercury in cobalt on it in letters about 1" tall. They wanted $ 18.00 for it. Is it worth buying? Seemed to be in good condition. Please advise me.

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Lisa
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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 12:25:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		they're cool jugs but common. $18 sounds about right

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 12:28:55 PM   
stormysouth


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Status: offline 		Thanks Lobey. I guess I should go back and get it this week. I never saw one like it and thought it was cool but wasn't sur eabout the $ 18.00 price tag. Have a wonderful day!

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 2:09:03 PM   
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Status: offline 		Its hard to tell how old those things are. Seems like they have used that same design for a long time. They used those when I was in high school. Mercury is so dang heavy (has a higher specific gravity than lead) you have to have a pretty solid container to hold it.

I'm not sure mercury would be officially considered a poison. The vapors are definately toxic but it wasnt used as a poison in its pure form as far as I know. Mercury compounds are poisons. I'll leave that for the poison people to debate. 

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 2:57:24 PM   
stormysouth


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Status: offline 		Thanks Gunther. Excellant point on the poison classification. I will also step aside for the poison guru's to further carify. It is a neat looking thing. Looks like a mini whiskey crock/jug with the little handle and all.

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 9:46:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		hey stormy, i see those all the time here in the south,  in the shops that is, im guessing common, but hey its all about what YOU like  mike

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 10:17:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		I dont know how porous the insides of those things are. If you buy one it might be good to keep a cork in it just in case there is mercury residue in it. Just in case.

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/29/2008 10:53:49 PM   
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ORIGINAL: GuntherHess
I dont know how porous the insides of those things are. If you buy one it might be good to keep a cork in it just in case there is mercury residue in it. Just in case.

Ahhhh what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger. When I was 13-14 me and some of the boys built a nifty raft out of wood pallets and four plastic 55 gallon drums we borrowed from a local loading dock. Lashed it all together and pushed it into the Blackstone river, the most foul bit of water the textile industry ever produced. About half way out on a pond dammed on each end the whole thing began to unravel. Until that moment we were proud as peacocks and having a high ole time. Them the screming began. One of the front corner barrels dipped under water for a second then woooosh it flew fifteen feet in the air. It kind of hung there like a big blue flying elephant against the sunny summer sky. It was beautiful, really. We began paddling towards a little island, one kid was crying, two where just wild eyed and I was laughing like a loon. Never made it. The other front barrel just kind of floated away, two went in, me and the other kid in the back just looked at each other and slowly sank in to our waists. I had my brother's swanky Buck knife in my coat pocket and i felt it just slip away. Now I knew if I went home without his knife it would be my doom, or at the very least a good fist fight, so I had to dive. had to be 20 feet deep, eyes open in that hell, i was down there a long time. Took a mouth full of water but I felt the case and snatched it up. Swallowed some of that crap, and by the time i surfaced everyone was  standing on the island. Thought you drowed yourself  Rick someone said. Had to back stroke to the island. Stuck on the island we had to climb a railroad bridge support or swim. We climbed. Felt sure one of us would die because it was the high open tied monster we all crossed a million times. Made you dizzy just walking the thing and seeing the water below you. We all made it, bro got his knife back and I got a slap in the mouth for ruining yet another pair of sneakers. Now if drinking that crap hasn't sprouted tumors a little mecury vapors is a snap

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/30/2008 3:10:03 AM   
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ORIGINAL: lobeycat

quote:

ORIGINAL: GuntherHess
I dont know how porous the insides of those things are. If you buy one it might be good to keep a cork in it just in case there is mercury residue in it. Just in case.

Ahhhh what doesn't kill you will only make you stronger. When I was 13-14 me and some of the boys built a nifty raft out of wood pallets and four plastic 55 gallon drums we borrowed from a local loading dock. Lashed it all together and pushed it into the Blackstone river, the most foul bit of water the textile industry ever produced. About half way out on a pond dammed on each end the whole thing began to unravel. Until that moment we were proud as peacocks and having a high ole time. Them the screming began. One of the front corner barrels dipped under water for a second then woooosh it flew fifteen feet in the air. It kind of hung there like a big blue flying elephant against the sunny summer sky. It was beautiful, really. We began paddling towards a little island, one kid was crying, two where just wild eyed and I was laughing like a loon. Never made it. The other front barrel just kind of floated away, two went in, me and the other kid in the back just looked at each other and slowly sank in to our waists. I had my brother's swanky Buck knife in my coat pocket and i felt it just slip away. Now I knew if I went home without his knife it would be my doom, or at the very least a good fist fight, so I had to dive. had to be 20 feet deep, eyes open in that hell, i was down there a long time. Took a mouth full of water but I felt the case and snatched it up. Swallowed some of that crap, and by the time i surfaced everyone was  standing on the island. Thought you drowed yourself  Rick someone said. Had to back stroke to the island. Stuck on the island we had to climb a railroad bridge support or swim. We climbed. Felt sure one of us would die because it was the high open tied monster we all crossed a million times. Made you dizzy just walking the thing and seeing the water below you. We all made it, bro got his knife back and I got a slap in the mouth for ruining yet another pair of sneakers. Now if drinking that crap hasn't sprouted tumors a little mecury vapors is a snap
     FAR OUT STORY! YEP THEM  BROTHERS CAN BE TUFF. MINE COULD PICK ON ME,BUT HE WOULDN'T LET NO BODY ELSE! MAN,IF I NEEDED BACK UP,HE WAS THERE! FEARLESS! YEP,THE CREEK HERE IS ALFUL TOO! WALKED DOWN IT LOOKING FOR BOTTLES AND BUBBLES OF SULPHUR SMELLING CRAP CAME UP AND I GOT OUT! I BET THE NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE WE RAN OFF FROM HERE WOULD SURE BE PROUD ! WE TOOK A BEAUTIFUL CREEK WITH 9LB TROUT IN IT AND MADE IT INTO WATER THAT EVEN SMALL FISH CAN BARELY LIVE IN. MAN,THAT IS PROGRESS! BUT WE HAD JOBS! MAKING THINGS LIKE NAPALM FOR THE NAM WAR. YES I WOULD TAKE MY CHANCES WITH [A LITTLE!] MURCURY OVER NAPALM! I THINK .

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/30/2008 6:17:34 AM   
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Status: offline 		yes, its all relative... if you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day then you probably are too worried about things like paint fumes...

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/30/2008 8:52:02 AM   
stormysouth


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Status: offline 		Ya'all crack me up!

Gunther you are right... I smoke between 1 1/2 - 2 packs of Marlboro Lights a day and guess what.... I worry about paint fumes... Hmmm.....

Lobey...loved the story. It gave me a well needed laugh.

Glass Man.... I understand what you are saying about the pollution. I spend a lot of time at the Ohio River. There are signs posted all over about the water being contaminated. Don't Swim... Don't eat the fish you catch.... It is truly sad.

I appreciate all the replies. Happy New Year to all!!!

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/30/2008 9:53:33 AM   
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Status: offline 		I love these chats!Start off running to first base end up scoring a touchdown!
Great story Lobe!


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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/30/2008 11:04:43 AM   
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Gunther you are right... I smoke between 1 1/2 - 2 packs of Marlboro Lights a day and guess what.... I worry about paint fumes... Hmmm.....


Sorry meant to type "aren't". my fingers dont always type what my brain tells them to. 

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/30/2008 11:08:50 AM   
stormysouth


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Status: offline 		Gunther...Would never have known if ya hadn't told on yourself. I type using the HPC method (Hunt, Peck, Cuss).

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/31/2008 3:04:16 AM   
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love these chats!Start off running to first base end up scoring a touchdown
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I USUALLY  END UP IN LEFT FIELD!

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 12/31/2008 3:50:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		Hey Lobeycat,
I had a similar experience bottle collecting just a few years ago. I found a steel beer keg from a small town. I had no idea how I was going to drag that thing out of the murky fetid water that I found it in. It probably weighed at least 100 lbs full. A buddy knew where I was diving and (luckily) arrived to see if I found anything. The water was only about three feet deep but the bottom was this squishy polluted mud. My buddy came over to a pier and told me to lift it out to him. I thought that might work. The pier was on posts where it would float up or down depending on the water level. As I tried lifting the barrel out of the water, I quickly sank down to my chin. Mud was dumping from the barrel right in front of my face. My buddy, seeing that I was struggling, stepped forward to help. This created a little wave as the pier shifted downward with the weight of his step. As I was exerting myself from lifting, I was just taking a deep breath. The sediment laden water filled my mouth as I was about to beathe. The natural reaction; I cleared my airway by swallowing. It was gritty dirty aweful. Suprisingly, I didn't get sick or Giardia or anything. Shows how tough stomaches are, I guess. Anyway, your story reminded me of this so, I thought that I would share it.

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 1/7/2009 11:47:41 AM   
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Status: offline 		I LEARNED TO SWIM IN A SMALL COW POND. THE MUD WAS BOUT 1/2FT DEEP. THE COWS NOT ONLY DRANK THE WATER THEY ALSO POOPED IN IT! I SWALLOWED A GOOD DEAL OF IT FROM TIME TO TIME,BUT LEARNED HOW TO SWIM FAIRLY QUICK! LORD ONLY KNOWS WHY I DIDN'T GET SOME AWLFUL SICKNESS! I ALSO CAUGHT A 3 LB BASS OUT OF THIS POND!SORRY THIS STARTED OUT BOUT BOTTLES AND IS ENDING UP BOUT GROSS WATER. WELL IT WAS ABOUT POISON,SO I GUESS THIS FITS IN A BIT.

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 1/8/2009 10:57:46 PM   
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RE: Need a little guidence please - 1/8/2009 11:04:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		me? my growth was stunted a little from the consumption of large quanities of Michelobey but I'm scrappy

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RE: Need a little guidence please - 1/8/2009 11:13:43 PM   
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me? my growth was stunted a little from the consumption of large quanities of Michelobey but I'm scrappy

Are you saying that Michelobe is poison or that it stunts your growth?

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