On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 15:07 -0700, BenT Syncro wrote:

> I'm old enough to have lived in a time when our drinking water had to
>  be laced with iodine to make it safe. The alternative was boiled water
>  which assaulted the taste buds.

Srsly? How old are you, Ben? I'm 61 and don't recall anything like that.
At least not in genteel Santa Barbara, Calif., where I was a kid.

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Rocky J Squirrel