Re: Practice the Black Arts in class, get fired.

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:38:31 +0000 (UTC), sethb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Seth)
wrote:

>
>I've poured actively boiling water over my hand (OK, I'm clumsy, I was
>draining spaghetti).  1-2 seconds of exposure at 212 degrees did not
>cause third degree burns.  It did not cause second degree burns.  It
>barely caused first degree burns.

I, on the other hand (at about the age of six) poured water that
washot but *not* actively boiling down my arm (by grasping the handle
of a pot on the stove in which my mother was keeping poached eggs warm
for my then-baby sister).

I had second-degree burns over much of my arm.