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Friday, January 19, 2007
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Overheard at Work

Person 1: Is your husband coming tonight?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: He's an anaesthesiologist right?
Person 2: Yep.
Person 1: Can you tell him to bring the good drugs?
Person 2: I can call and find out.
Person 3: Tell him to bring the CO2 maaannnn.  The carbon monoxide, or whatever it is they use.

Not only did he call CO2 carbon monoxide, but it's actually nitrous oxide which is popular to sniff.  I had to bite my tongue to keep from correcting him over the cube wall for fear that I would be the subject of a random drug test next week.  Not that you can test for NO, or that I would know any of these things from personal experience.

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Saturday, January 20, 2007 8:15:23 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
next time, just tell him to look for people who have those little alarms in their home. If he sticks around long enough, he'll get some for free.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:56:11 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
NO is nitric oxide. N2O is nitrous oxide. Comments appear to be subscript free.
Joel
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:59:20 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Chemically, that is very correct Joel. The confusing part is that most people who use Nitrous (N2O) call it NO... not because of the chemical composition, but because of the initials in the name, since Nitrous is much more commonly known than Nitric.
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