I love! You made my day, Doug.
Bev
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls
Sent: September 25, 2015 8:48 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] Element Quiz Question
My esteemed colleague refers to another of the half fractional elements, Grouchium (Gm 32.5). It is relatively rare (imagine that) and found in the mineral ore Irritite and the only known deposits of Irritite are near the town of Hesse, Germany. Grouchium has been shown to have a neurological impact on humans, predominantly keeping affected individual in a perpetual angry or irritated state. In Roman times, the Romans found the residents of Hesse to be so disagreeable they termed them “inritatior hominis”, and the town on Roman maps simply labelled as Inritatior with a notation “Et non egredieris inde huc” (don’t go here). On the other hand, Grouchium is actually quite tasty and was added to local sausages, especially those that fed Hessian soldiers in the Army. Not even the vaunted Roman Legions would face Hessian soldiers hopped up on Grouchium sausages.
Grouchium was first isolated in pure form by Dr. Verrückt Verärgert, at the University of Berlin – Kottmar, in 1933. Sadly, his research was cut short by his tragic demise. Dr. Verärgert, not being the most ethical of men, decided to use his wife as a test subject for his experiments of the effects of pure Grouchium on the nervous system. Dr. Verärgert was, quite frankly, an idiot as Frau Verärgert was 6 inches taller and 100 pounds heavier than he was, and could easily bench press Holsteins. Dr. Verärgert found out first-hand the effects of an element which makes people very angry as there were only small pieces of him left for the authorities to identify. Wisely, Frau Verärgert was not charged. Sadly, the rest of Dr.
Verärgert’s work was lost during WW2, but it was rumored that neither the Nazis, the Russians, nor the Americans would go within a 100 miles of Kottmar as Frau Verärgert was still there.
I have Dave this time. He only gave one hint, not the usual multi-hint, so he has nothing to disqualify me on, and my Latin is better than Dave’s.
Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 7:00 AM, David Hillman < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> The name of this element is derived from the Latin name of the German
> town/province of Hesse. Which element is being described?
>
> The winner of the weekly element quiz 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, SAIC
> Week 21 Amol Kane
> Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
> Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Sign
> Week 22 Phil Kinner
> Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits
> Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Week 25 Keith Calhoun,
> SoparkCorp Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc Week 27
> Greg Munie, IPC Week 28 Steve Gregory Week 29 Gus Trakas, Viasystems
> Week 29 Steve Creswick Week 30 Robert Welch,Moog Component Group Week
> 31 Heidi Havelka, Interplex Sunbelt Week 32 Raye Rivera, Canoga
> Perkins Week 33 Steve Creswick Week 34 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week
> 35 Don Vischulis Week 36 Greg Munie, IPC Week 37 Larry Dzaugis Week 37
> Bonus Question Steve Mikell Week 38 Curt McNamara, Logic PD Week 38
> Bonus Question Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week 39 Leland Woodall,
> CSTech Inc.
> Week 40 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 40 Ron Feyereisen, Sigmatron Int.
> Week 41 Steve Gregory
> Week 42 Steve Mikell
> Week 43 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Week 44 Leland Woodall, CSTech
> Inc.
> Week 44 Eddie Hofer, Rockwell Collins
> Week 45 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 46 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week 47 Phil
> Bavaro,L-3 Communications Week 48 Brian Ellis Week 49 Leland
> Woodall,CSTech Week 49 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 50 Greg
> Munie, IPC Week 51 Karen Tellefsen.
> Week 52 Greg Munie, IPC
> Week 53 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 54 Phil Bavaro, L-3 Com.
> Week 55 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. deferred to Richard Stadem, GD,
> Week 56 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LLC Week 57 Leland
> Woodall, CSTech Inc Week 58 Leland Woodall, CSTech, Inc.
> Week 58 Bonus Question Robert Wolfe
> Week 59 Greg Munie, IPC
> Week 60 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 61 James Head, Crowcon
> Detection Instruments Limited Week 62 Leland Woodall Week 62 Brien
> Bush, Cirtronics Week 63 Pat Goodyear, PGE Week 64 Ed Popielarski Week
> 65 Jim West, N.S. International Week 66 Brian Ellis Week 67 Ravinder
> Ajmani, HGST Week 68 Robert Wolfe Week 69 Joe Russeau, PAL.
> Week 69 Leland Woodall, Keihin North America Week 70 Jim West, N.S.
> International Week 71 Steve Gregory Week 72 Bhanu Sood, CALCE Week 72
> Ed Popielarsk Week 72 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group Week 73
> Torsten Hagge, Kristronics GmbH Week 74 Greg Munie, IPC Week 75 Doug
> Pauls, Rockwell Collins Week 76 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 77
> Robert Kondner, Index Designs Week 77 Bonus Brien Bush, Cirtronics
> Week 78 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 79 Denny Fritz, SAIC
> Week 80 Brian Ellis
> Week 81 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 81 Jim West, N.S. International
> Week 82 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc
> Week 82 Robert Welch, Moog Components Group Week 83 James Head,
> Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 84 Mike Fenner Week 85
> Steve Gregory Week 86 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
> Week 87 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik Week 88 Leland Woodall,
> CSTech Inc.
> Week 89 Avni Selim Ozcukurlu, Aselsan Inc.
> Week 90 Pat Goodyear, PGE
> Week 91 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 92 Greg Munie, IPC
> Week 93 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 93 Mike Fenner
> Week 94 John Maxwell
> Week 95 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 95 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 96 Tom
> Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 96 bonus Leland
> Woodall, CSTech Inc.
>
> Week 97 Dick Krug, Spartan Brooksville LLC -Clumpy and Kloumpios
> arrived late Friday night. Saturday and Sunday we went to an
> Oktoberfest. The boys both complained that the mugs were so small. I
> tried to tell them it's because the beer gets warm faster in the
> south. They replied in unison, "Drink faster!" For being small in
> stature they can drink a lot.Perhaps because of the beer they weren't
> good for much work on Monday, but starting Tuesday they worked hard
> with the end of quarter production push. I don't think they like
> working this hard. Clumpy hoped their next assignment would be far
> away and they would have to leave early today.
>
> Week 98 ????
> -assisted with ????
>
>
> Everyone have a safe week.
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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> Data Credit Note: the information in the Element Quizzes is taken from
> several published sources including The History and Use of Our Earth's
> Chemical Elements by R. Krebs and Nature's Building Blocks by J. Emsley.
>
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