Posted by Amun on 02/12/06 11:35

> "anthonyberet" <nospam@me.invalid> wrote in message
> news:457kcbF5b9oaU1@individual.net...
> >
> > D. Kirkpatrick wrote:
> >
> > > In article <45660rF54bcsU1@individual.net>,
> > > anthonyberet <nospam@me.invalid> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was in a pub around xmas just passed (2005), and I saw a
> > > > video playing on one of those usually-annoying video screens.
> > > > It was a slow video of a large recording studio, and an
> > > > orchestra. I presume this was because the singer of that
> > > > version of 'White Christmas' is dead, or plug-ugly.
> > > >
> >
> > > Only version I know is the one by Bing Crosby.
> > >
> >
> > Well that isn't very good is it?
> >
> I don't know . . . . I thought it was an excellent example of an
> utterly pointless and moronic thing to say. I say we should give him
> the benefit of the doubt and say he was being fiendishly 'dry' and
> ironic. Made *me* laugh. A lot.
> >
> > There are more versions of White Christmas than
> > there are atoms in the universe, or something.
> >
> Rubbish. There are 542 versions of White Christmas, and THOUSANDS of
> atoms in the universe. You're just being silly.
>
> PS
> One of the atoms is called "hydrogen". And "thallium". That's two.


Why am I suddenly firing up Winmx to search for "TOM LEHRER - the elements"
<g>

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold and protactinium and indium and gallium, (gasp)
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.

Isn't that interesting?
I knew you would.
I hope you're all taking notes, because there's going to be a short quiz
next period...

There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, (gasp)
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Hahvard,
And there may be many others but they haven't been discahvered.



AMUN

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