[Bookwoman] [bookwoman] K2O Completely Off Topic

[Hcaston at aol.com]

Lee Anne, I couldn't agree with you more.
But frankly I'm more interested in the fact that "we" ARE still alive;  
perhaps literacy isn't dead?
I'm sorry I'm not adding anything useful about BOOKS:  I'm simply  reading 
pure escapist stuff these days as I'm going through some very difficult  times 
and crave a least partial relief: thank heaven for the "junk" books which  
serve to "only" entertain us and transport us to different realities.
 
Love to us all...
Helena
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I know  this is completely off topic, but there is a
possible tie-in with the  concept of literacy itself.

One notes with wondering amazement that  Kellogg
is now marketing a diet drink named K2O, which
just happens to  be the chemical name of Potassium
oxide, a dangerous corrosive poison  almost instantly
fatal if ingested, but in a particularly gruesome  and
painful manner, since it explodes violently on contact
with water,  forming caustic lye.

Please don't leave this stuff laying about  where
children might see it, since one finds the same
chemical symbol  listed on bags or other containers
of plant fertilizer, although K2O is  never actually used,
for obvious reasons, one of its less active salts  being
substituted instead.

For their next campaign, perhaps Kellogg  could
market a yummy breakfast cereal and name it
Cyanide, although  Arsenic has a nice ring to it
as well, but why not offer another named  Rat
Poison for beginning readers who might have
trouble with the  complicated names?

Cheers,

Lee  Anne
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To paraphrase H.L. Mencken,  never
overestimate the intelligence of the
American  marketer.






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Aim above  morality. 
Be not simply good,
Be good for something.

-- Henry  David  Thoreau

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