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

In article <g4tu8t$goj$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Seth <sethb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <g2s6us$1986$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>David Goldfarb <goldfarb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>In article <g2rtvn$dnq$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Seth <sethb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>In article <g0kjou$qsj$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>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 find myself doubting that you left your hand in the boiling water
>>for anything like two seconds.
>
>I didn't leave it in.  I spilled almost a gallon of boiling water; I
>estimate it was well over a second before my reflexes pulled my left
>hand completely out of the stream.

It seems to me that a subjective estimate of time under such cir***stances
is probably rather unreliable.

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