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Post by supershanemfc on Jan 31, 2008 14:19:10 GMT -5
Hey leila!!!!! -shane
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Post by sharpie marker on Feb 25, 2008 14:20:53 GMT -5
This is this week, who's thinking of going? I'm back and forth on it.
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Post by debster on Feb 25, 2008 14:45:17 GMT -5
think i'm more back then forth. it's a lot of money for a band i'm really not into.
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Post by supershanemfc on Feb 25, 2008 15:37:36 GMT -5
It is a big maybe for me. Its a lot of dough so i am going to have to see come thursday. -shane
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Post by sharpie marker on Feb 25, 2008 16:02:06 GMT -5
I suspect that, com Thursdays, we'll all sort of go "meh."
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Post by debster on Feb 25, 2008 17:10:16 GMT -5
my gawd man, we're all getting old!!!
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Post by supershanemfc on Feb 25, 2008 23:39:14 GMT -5
my gawd man, we're all getting old!!! and for some reason we are all still broke. -shane
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Post by sharpie marker on Feb 26, 2008 8:57:15 GMT -5
Well, drinking enough to preserve our old asses costs a lot.
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Post by supershanemfc on Feb 26, 2008 9:04:45 GMT -5
You have got a good point. -shane
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Post by sharpie marker on Feb 26, 2008 9:31:58 GMT -5
Now, if we were crazy old vegan sXers, we'd probably be filthy rich. But who would want to be a crazy old vegan sXer?
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Post by debster on Feb 26, 2008 11:37:13 GMT -5
especially a crazy old vegan sXer skin. now THAT would just be totally bizarre.
hell, at my age maybe i should jump off the jack and just start drinking formaldahyde. wonder if it's cheaper? hmmm....
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Post by sharpie marker on Feb 26, 2008 12:26:49 GMT -5
Notre Dame's Steven R. Schmid, associate professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering, is an expert in tribology — the study of friction, wear and the lubrication — applied to manufacturing and machine design. The co-author of two textbooks, Fundamentals of Machine Elements and Manufacturing Engineering and Technology (considered the bible of manufacturing engineering), Schmid has conducted extensive research on the manufacturing processes used in the production of beverage and other kinds of cans. Schmid explains that back in the 1940s, when brewers and other beverage makers began putting drinks in steel (and, later, aluminum) cans, the can makers added formaldehyde to a milk-like mixture of 95 percent water and 5 percent oil that's employed in the can manufacturing process. The mixture, called an emulsion, bathes the can material and the can-shaping tooling, cooling and lubricating both. Additives in the oil part are certain bacteria's favorite food. But if the bacteria eat the emulsion, it won’t work as a lubricant anymore. So can makers add a biocide to the emulsion to kill the bacteria. Before a can is filled and the top attached, this emulsion is rinsed off, but a small residue of the oil-water mixture is inevitably left behind, including trace amounts of the biocide. The amounts remaining are not enough to be a health hazard, but they are enough to taste, and the first biocide used back in the 1940s was formaldehyde. In the decades since, can makers have devised new formulas for emulsions, always with an eye toward making them more effective, more environmentally friendly and less costly. But because formaldehyde was in the original recipe, people got used to their canned Budweiser or whatever having a hint of the famous preservative's flavor. For this reason, Schmid says, every new emulsion formula since then has had to be made to taste like formaldehyde, "or else people aren't going to accept it." Extensive tests are run to make sure the lubricant and additives taste like formaldehyde. "It's not that it tastes okay. It's just what people are used to tasting," he says. (Miller Genuine Draft and similar brews, Schmid says, use biocides that have no flavor.) www.nd.edu/~ndmag/can1su00.htm
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Post by debster on Feb 26, 2008 12:47:40 GMT -5
well, hot-diggity-dang! guess i've been "preserving" this ole carcass of mine for some time now. i should look about 20! wtf?
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leila
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Post by leila on Feb 26, 2008 12:53:57 GMT -5
Hey Shane!!! What is it?
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Post by sharpie marker on Feb 26, 2008 13:04:55 GMT -5
well, hot-diggity-dang! guess i've been "preserving" this ole carcass of mine for some time now. i should look about 20! wtf? That's why I don't like Bud. That aftertaste.
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