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hee...hee.....he said bud

Lloyd Duso
Diamond-MT
Plant Manager
(814) 535-3505
www.Diamond-mt.com


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Chuck Brummer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> wow, you just let out the big secret to the state of happiness of the West
> Coast Bovine
> AKA BovinusMaryJaneis
>
> nice going bud
>
> Chuck
>
>
> Charles W. Brummer | 3M Manufacturing Engineer
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> From:   Douglas Pauls <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:   09/13/2013 05:52 AM
> Subject:        Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question
> Sent by:        TechNet <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> I have this one.  The element Dave refers to is another half fractional
> element (imagine that): Creamium, which lies between lithium and sodium in
>
> the periodic table, but has an electron pair configuration similar to
> aluminum.  Creamium was often found in and around bauxite deposits and was
>
> considered to be an undesirable material as it often melted at 37.48C,
> making the bauxite very slippery and difficult to handle, and it induced a
>
> mysterious craving for croissants in bauxite miners.  When you filter all
> the bauxite/aluminum out of the Creamium, it does take on a pale yellow
> hue.  Not many people know this (imagine that), but the Butter Cow, made
> each year at the Iowa State Fair, contains 24% Creamium as it has a higher
>
> structural strength than does normal butter.
>
> There are huge natural deposits of Creamium in the upper Midwest in the US
>
> (Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota), and in Switzerland.  One of the foremost
> researchers of Creamium has been Dr. Fernando Margarine (how ironic) at
> the University of Wisconsin - Madison.  Dr. Margarine found that the most
> efficient way to separate out the Creamium from the aluminum was to
> actually feed it to dairy cattle, whose digestive process formed pellets
> of Creamium in the excrement.  His grad students had the job of recovering
>
> the Creamium pellets from the cow flop, which is where we get the phrase,
> this is a shitty job.  As noted above, Creamium lends structural strength,
>
> and cow flops with a high amount of Creamium are prized at the annual
> Wisconsin State Cow Chip Throw competition.  Dr. Margarine published most
> of his work in 1793, which was pretty staggering considering that UW-M was
>
> not founded till 1848.  But as a graduate of that facility, I can tell you
>
> that logic does not slow that institution one damn bit.  Dr. Margarine
> came to a sad end, I am sorry to say.  He wondered if humans could also
> refine Creamium as do cattle.  He ate enough of it that is colon fused
> shut and the resulting methane generation cause quite an explosion,
> killing Dr. Margarine and his research staff instantly.  Even today in
> Wisconsin, you can hear people say that Margarine will kill you, but
> butter won't.
>
> As a side note, there have been an ugly set of commercials on TV of late,
> suggesting that California cows are happier than Wisconsin cows,
> presumably because of differences in Creamium content.  It's a vicious
> lie.  California cows are happier than Wisconsin cows because they graze
> in fields of Marijuana.  So they are stoned, not "happy".  It's also why
> California butter leaves you feeling hungrier.  Wisconsin cows - home of
> truth, justice, and true American Dairy products.
>
> Anyway, Dave mentions that countries have gone to war over Creamium, but
> that is kind of a stretch.  Dave refers to the Liechtenstein-Swiss War of
> 1803.  Both countries claimed to have cows that were superior in refining
> Creamium.  Some ugly rhetoric was put forth by both sides, and after
> several months of lobbing chunks of depleted-Creamium cow flops across the
>
> border, the combatants agreed to disagree over a few steins of good beer.
>
> I shall now wait as my esteemed colleague disqualifies me from half a
> world away.
>
> Doug Pauls
>
>
>
> From:   "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To:     <[log in to unmask]>
> Date:   09/13/2013 05:33 AM
> Subject:        [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question
> Sent by:        TechNet <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question (coming from sunny
> Melbourne Australia):
>
> The Question:
> This element will float on water. This element looks like aluminum but can
>
>
> be cut with a butter knife. This element is heated to a liquid phase,
> poured into rail tank cars where it then solidifies for transport. Once
> the tank car arrives at its destination, heaters re-liquify this element
> for removal. Countries have gone to war over this element. The pure form
> of this element is not found in nature. This element is essential for
> humans. What element is being described?
>
> The winner of the weekly element quiz is will get the services of Clumpy
> and Kloumpios for the week.
>
>
> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
>
> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> Week 1 Dick Krug,  Spartan Complex Systems
> Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC
> Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited
> Week 3 Pat Goodyear, PGE
> Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory
> Week 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
> Week 6 Steve Gregory
> Week 7 Phil Kinner
> Week 8 Brian Ellis
> Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited
> Week 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik
> Week 13 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 14 Brian Ellis
> Week 15 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
> Week 16 Steve Gregory
> Week 17 Phil Kinner
> Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems
> Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 20 Denny Fritz
> Week 21 Amol Kane
> Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
> Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs
> Week 22 Phil Kinner
> Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits
>
> Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
> - The boys have been working hard and surely deserve some break. I'm
> fixin' to be nice to the boys and just let them sit on my porch, have a
> Texas drink, relax and enjoy our weather. This summer's been kinda cold
> around here: has not even hit 40C (104F) yet.
>
> Week 25 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> - The guys arrived safely, and I sent them to the Erie County Fair.  They
> loved the antique tractor/ live steam exhibit, and are now figuring out
> what class their John Deere's can run in the Truck and Tractor pull.
> They are also having a ball in the beer garden.  I'm not sure I will get
> anything constructive out of them this week but they sure are having
> fun!
>
> Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc
> - Well it's time for Clumpy and Kloumpios to join me for some Canadian
> wilderness camping in Algonquin Park, Ontario. What we'll do is put the
> canoe on the van, load up our camping gear, and then we'll head the
> North East area of Algonquin Park. We'll put in on the Barron River and
> canoe up to the river to a portage point where Clumpy and Kloumpios will
> be asked to portage the canoe and gear for about half a kilometer, past
> some falls, until we put back into the river. What we'll do then is
> canoe about a mile up stream and setup camp on a beautiful point of land
> that over looks the Barron Cliffs and has a pine tree every much like
> The Jack Pine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jackpine.jpeg that was
> painted by Tom Thomson in 1916. I'll start fishing; they will do the
> cooking and cleaning.  We will relax for a few days then we'll head back
> to Ottawa (given the mosquitoes don't carry us away). Dave - Maybe we can
> meet you on the Ottawa River some time next week.
>
> Week 27 Greg Munie, IPC
> - Since it's getting close to time for the Abbey's grape harvest/wine
> making I'll get the monks to put them up at the Abbey guest house. From
> there it's just a short walk to the vineyard. Of course the food at the
> Abbey may be a little, ah, Spartan, for their tastes. But I can give them
> enough pruning, weeding and cleanup to do to keep them busy all week.
> (Maybe I can even get them to do the water run for the vegetable garden!
> They'd probably like driving the old tractor.) And for a special perk they
>
>
> can have the honor of the company of Benny, the Abbey Golden Retriever!
>
> Week 28 ????
> - assisted with ????
>
> Everyone have a safe week!
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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