So, here I am at the Annual Superbowl Party, jumping up and pointing at the
TV shouting "Wow! A PL-17! That's cool!" It was the second most exciting
part of the whole show.
Most friends know to ignore such auto-related outbursts; one asked "What?"
and was treated to a half minute of my aluminum rant. Fortunately, he'd
recently ridden in a Lotus and understood lightness.
A history note from the American Chemical Society reveals yet another level
of sight gag: "Aluminum, the third most abundant element in the earth's
crust-and its most plentiful metal-is made from bauxite, a reddish-brown
rock discovered in Les Baux, France, in 1821."
http://acswebcontent.acs.org/landmarks/landmarks/al/revolution.html
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Received on Mon Feb 4 12:27:43 2008
