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...with your bare hands when you were a kid?


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Definitely, I broke open every thermometer and mercury switch out of thermostats I could get my hands on.

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In the early 70's we had a teacher that had 1/2 a mason jar filled with mercury. Would pass it around and let you stick your hands in it!

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Yep. We all played with it in elementary school.

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Yes also had a teacher that had a baby food jar filled with it. He would pour some out on a desk, and let kids handle it. I rember how heavy it was.


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We used to drop Pennys into Hg to coat them


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I had a thread about this

Exact title too

Darn all these Have you Ever threads

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https://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbt...yone-ever-play-with-mercury#Post18093730

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This will be for the crowd that had scumlord on Ignore

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Originally Posted by slumlord
This will be for the crowd that had scumlord on Ignore
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Gauuraanteeeeedd!

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yep dad use to bring it home from the iron foundry and we would play with it . the 70's was a differnt world from today


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Originally Posted by tndrbstr
Originally Posted by slumlord
This will be for the crowd that had scumlord on Ignore
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Gauuraanteeeeedd!

Let me check some profiles to confirm

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Originally Posted by slumlord
Originally Posted by tndrbstr
Originally Posted by slumlord
This will be for the crowd that had scumlord on Ignore
laffin’

Gauuraanteeeeedd!

Let me check some profiles to confirm
Just back up to seven posts before this one!! grin

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Originally Posted by slumlord
This will be for the crowd that had scumlord on Ignore

Only whimps and loosers have Slummy on ignore.

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Damn, was on a week long fishing trip off the grid when Slummy aired his merc thread.

Tough sledding to get an original "ever" topic anymore.

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Bob Griese, Jim Kiick, and Larry Csonka did it with regularity.


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Used it to clean Mercury dimes.

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Originally Posted by WYcoyote
Tough sledding to get an original "ever" topic anymore.
One might imagine we’d have run out of them.

But nooooo.


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