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...--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 22:40:56 +0100 From: Adam Back To: "R. A. Hettinga" Cc: Adam Back Subject: wow - palladiated! (Re: Palladium: technical limits and implications) User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.2iOn 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--- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork