Lame Dave, very lame.......... Doug Pauls From: "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Date: 02/08/2013 05:20 PM Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question Sent by: TechNet <[log in to unmask]> Hi Doug - the FEQAB has completed is research and review of you Friday Element Quiz response. Your response was disqualified for two reasons: (1) You credited Talcium as containing corn starch but FEQAB research shows you made no mention of an additional Talcium constituent listed by the Egyptians as "mummy dust" which explains why no one can find Talcium in Iowa as mummies are in short supply. (2) The FEQAB reached out to a pair of volunteer research assistants (James Head and his resourceful colleague Vincent) who noted that you made no reference to "born with a silver-spoon in one's mouth" which clearly would have assisted in providing a correct response of "silver". Dave From: Douglas O Pauls/CedarRapids/RockwellCollins To: TechNet E-Mail Forum <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]> Date: 02/08/2013 07:48 AM Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question The answer, of course, is Talcium (Tk), another of the half fractional elements (amazing how many there are, eh?). It is an odd half fractional as it appears between Sulfur and Selenium in the periodic table. It has the lubricating characteristics of a sulfur rich compound (e.g. Polysulfones) and the dandruff fighting characteristics of Selenium. Almost all parents are familiar with Talcum powder, a blend of corn starch (and we in Iowa just love corn products) and Talcium. It's what makes a baby's butt so smooth. Also helps fight pediatric dandruff. I happen to know Ma Hillman (she likes me better than Dave) who said Dave has fought that dandruff thing all his life. His hair is actually black, but that whitish/gray coloration - Dandruff. Could also be from raising two teenage sons. The jury is still out. The Chaldeans were indeed the first ones to make productive use of Talcium and it helped ensure that their military dominance continued for a long period in the ancient world. The capital city of Ur was located on a good sized hill. The surrounding area was rich in Talcium deposits. Attacking armies continually slipped and slided, making them easy targets for the archers. When the Chaldean armies invaded other areas, they took powdered Talcium with them, liberally seeded the battlefield during the night and then sat back to watch the fun. The dominance continued until the Babylonians discovered a counter-strategy. They waited until the wind was at their backs, then the soldiers would beat the ground with massive brooms, causing the light Talcium to rise, coating the Chaldeans with the material. It is actually where the term "clean sweep" comes from. True story. I do all this so that Hillman has to hire additional staff on his drunken Board to research reasons to disqualify me. Oh, just to wrap up the first Round, when the boys got back to Cedar Rapids, I sent them and their wives to a wonderful bed and breakfast up in Red Wing, Minnesota for a long weekend. Got my Boy Scout Troop (handy being a Scoutmaster) and did all the home maintenance tasks which had accumulated in two years. The wives were very pleased and the Scouts got Merit Badges in Home Repair and Gnome Lore. And I sampled Clumpy's store of Akavit. Everyone wins. Doug Pauls ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________