[Bookwoman] FW: [bookwoman] K2O Completely Off Topic

[Jean Brown]

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From: Jean Brown <jeanie at mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:25:06 -0600
To: <Hcaston at aol.com>
Conversation: [Bookwoman] [bookwoman] K2O Completely Off Topic
Subject: Re: [Bookwoman] [bookwoman] K2O Completely Off Topic

It is nice to see some life here ...I'm where you are Helena..not in a good
place for reading and haven't been for the longest time. This makes life
even more difficult since reading has always been a solace for me this time
though I'm having difficulty even reading escape book. I recently began The
Mists of Avalon and while I can't read long periods at once I am able to
follow the story and enjoy usually for a short while each day so that i
something. Though at this rate it will take forever to read this very long
book...Hope all of you are well and reading....

Jeanie/KY


On 3/6/07 9:50 PM, "Hcaston at aol.com" <Hcaston at aol.com> wrote:

>  
>  
> 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
> ============================
> To paraphrase H.L. Mencken,  never
> overestimate the intelligence of the
> American  marketer.
> 
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> Be not simply good,
> Be good for something.
> 
> -- Henry  David  Thoreau
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