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Palladiated? (was re: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Wed Aug 7 21:17:28 2002
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 18:37:51 -0400
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Evidently, I have permission to pass this along. :-).
Don't try this at home, boys and girls. This is a professional neologist at
work...
Cheers,
RAH
Comedy is not pretty...
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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:40:56 +0100
From: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
To: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: Adam Back <adam@cypherspace.org>
Subject: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications)
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On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 03:08:08PM -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
> At 6:54 PM +0100 on 8/7/02, Adam Back wrote:
> > Palladiumized
>
> Palladiated?
>
> ;-).
that's pretty funny, rhymes with irradiated -- nice connotations of
radioactive material with radioactive half-lives spewing
life-hazardous neutron radiation ;-)
Helps that palladium is in fact a heavy metal. Man, perhaps Pd even
_has_ a half-life on the decay path from plutonium down to lead or
something. That would be very funny.
Adam
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