Poll: Ban the Chemical Dihydrogen Monoxide

[Monshroud]

Penn and Teller did this on Bulls!&#. I think it was part of a segment about getting Hippies to sign anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

Did you click the spoiler?

I didn't need to click the spoiler. I have a couple friends who are big science geeks who tried to pull this on me years ago. It is a good trick...

 

[ottenni]

Hehehehehe. I remember my high school chemistry teacher putting a question about this in a test just to see if we where actually paying attention to the problems he was giving us and not just doing the formulas and moving on. About half got it right, funny teacher.

 

[team star pug]

What a coincidence that I learnt that today in chemistry. I said to myself "[TEAMSTARPUG] dihydrogen monoxide is another term for water. Better remember if you want to trick people/ not be tricked."

 

[tigermilk]

It's not as bad as monoxodihydride. Did you know that 100% of serial killers were found with this in their system?

100% of serial killers have monoxodihydride in their system.
I have monoxodihydride in my system.
I must be a serial killer!

Yup; you used logic thus it must be true! Try not to kill anybody I know.

I'll try but I have also noticed like all serial killers I have a head, the similarities are chilling!

 

[Carlston]

Such a horrid chem...

Everyone who ever consumed even a drop has or will die...
Animals as well...


Abortions for all (boo)
Abortions for none (boo)
Abortions for some...miniature America flags for others (crowd cheers)

 

[Rooker]

Ahahahaha....I see whatcha did there. I almost fell for it too. "Dihydrogen monoxide...what the hell is tha--Wait a minute...Two...one...Ahhh, I get it." XD Nice job. Well, not really, I'm pretty easy to lose. But yeah. That was awesome.

 

[Redemption003]

It's amazing how many people I get with this on a day to day basis. Never gets old...especially with that "official" anti-dihydrogen monoxide website you can show people to back it up.

And to the 44 people (at time of posting) who voted yes, shame on you!

 

[shotgunbob]

I remember this story. They came really close to banning it.

Its killed millions of people you know!

Damn you Dihydrogen Monoxide

Spoiler

H2O

 

[Lukeje]

Penn and Teller did this on Bulls!&#. I think it was part of a segment about getting Hippies to sign anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

Did you click the spoiler?

I didn't need to click the spoiler. I have a couple friends who are big science geeks who tried to pull this on me years ago. It is a good trick...

He was pointing out that he mentions the show in the spoiler.

 

[Deguasser]

DI = 2

MONO = 1

DIHYDROGEN = Two Hydrogen Atoms

MONOXIDE = One Oxygen Atom

 

[Sovvolf]

Hahahahah we did this in Media last year as part of advertising (studying the whole "Our product contains -insert fancy chemical name for something as mundane as oygen-". )

However back on-topic. Chemical Dihydrogen Monoxide killed my father and raped my mother. Should be banned... THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!.

 

[T-Bone24]

I've heard that it's terribly harmful after long exposure. And it's everywhere, almost unavoidable. I think that the governments of the world should stop their silly wars and think about doing something about this dangerous chemical.

 

[Caliostro]

Penn and Teller did this on Bulls!&#. I think it was part of a segment about getting Hippies to sign anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

Did you click the spoiler?

The original, and far better, study belongs to14 year old Nathan Zohner, back in 1997 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_hoax].

People are gullible. Nothing new.

 

[Serge A. Storms]

They say they use it on fires, but when my neighbor's house caught on fire, the fire was started in the kitchen when a bunch of pan-fried vegetables caught fire in oil and were spilled onto a rug, and all of those vegetables contained dihydrogen monoxide. Fuck dihydrogen monoxide, it's nothing but a poisonous preservative being forced on us by big business!

 

[Lekonua]

Awful stuff, that.

Did you know that traces of it have been found in 100% of swimming pools all over the world?

 

[crazy-j]

i loled.

good prank sir, good prank. And no i didn't fall or it!

 

[JoJo]

This chemical is terrible, apparently that many minor conflicts in Africa are fought over this stuff, also a lot of desert nations are designing special plants to purify it from the oceans to make MORE of it :-(

 

[Belgian_Waffles]

My freshman science teacher pulled this on us, I thought it was hilarious. I wonder how many have fallen for it so far.

 

[Ken Sapp]

I want to see it banned purely for the enjoyment of watching the government try to enforce it.

Oldest joke in the chemist's book.