Postby drawscore » Tue May 08, 2012 9:32 pm
Games, don't feel too bad. We have city and town councilmen (and the voters that elect them) that have the brains of kumquats here in the US, too. One bright young man out in California wanted to find out just how bereft of brains his town councilmen were, and circulated a petition in the town to ban "di-hydrogen monoxide," calling it a "dangerous chemical compound, involved with several dozen drownings in the state in the last two years."
It actually passed the first reading, and was up for a second reading, when it dawned on someone on the town staff, that "di" is a prefix meaning "two," and "mono" is a prefix meaning "one." Two parts hydrogen, plus one part oxygen, is H2O. H2O is water.
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