Well this explains my grades in school?

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I blame my faults on DDT. As children, it was perfectly acceptable to ride our bicycles following the cloud of insecticide behind the neighborhood mosquito abatement truck.
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I can honestly say I never studied a single afternoon or evening throughout high school. That said I got a 1280 on my SAT with ZERO preparation. But I give credit to my parent's DNA. Both had college degrees, achieved in the late 1940s. That was rare for that generation.

But college was a bit more challenging. I learned very quickly I needed to study for some classes, and sometimes study my "a" off.

My college timing was perfect. I got my one and only F grade ever; a statistics class, and I was really good at math. Even 45+ years later I can still feel myself blanch with the realization that I was totally screwed. But that woke me up and made me realize life might be more difficult than I thought. College taught me as much about "life" as it did "things". That, and I met my future wife there, in a cross walk going to class one morning.

Scott

PS I still remember walking up to turn in my incomplete final, walking up 20 minutes after starting, the first student done, looking like either a genius or a failure. I remember telling the instructor, "I am so sorry to have wasted your time". An exact quote. I'll never forget how humiliating that was.
 
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You guy think this is bad, I read in several articles that Asbestos was used in making movies for the snow effects. Particularly in the Wizard of oz movie. But it didn't mention anyone in particular getting cancer from it. Or at least they couldn't prove it, because everyone smoked back then.,,,
 
BigCahuna said:
You guy think this is bad, I read in several articles that Asbestos was used in making movies for the snow effects. Particularly in the Wizard of oz movie. But it didn't mention anyone in particular getting cancer from it. Or at least they couldn't prove it, because everyone smoked back then.,,,
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This is true. I know this after researching the tie between the movie and the Pink Floyd album DSOTM.
 
At this address we're still in mourning over the poor tigers in the Detroit Zoo who died from lead poisoning by licking it off their paws.
I'd swap a lot of damaged people to get those tigers back.
 
Kjmack said:
Will the crap ever end with these imbeciles . People drank from pewter and lead mugs for hundreds of years and could figure out what the average person couldn't do today in 5 lifetimes
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What crap? This is true and has been known for quite a while. Lead has serious cognitive side effects.
 
doitmyself said:
I blame my faults on DDT. As children, it was perfectly acceptable to ride our bicycles following the cloud of insecticide behind the neighborhood mosquito abatement truck.
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No kidding! I don't know for sure if it was DDT but even in the early 2000's when I was living on a US base abroad they would drive through the neighborhood with these foggers on the trailer. We never went inside when they passed through, man the smell was something horrid.
 
$#!+, when my dad owned his ESSO station I pumped tons of gallons of leaded gas for years. And all we drove were vehicles that used leaded gas w/MTBE.
 
RamFan said:
What crap? This is true and has been known for quite a while. Lead has serious cognitive side effects.
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No kidding , can't you understand it's all about gas past and present . Water services to houses and everything else was lead for 50 years . ...Do you know how many people die from peanuts every year ?
 
Kjmack said:
No kidding , can't you understand it's all about gas past and present . Water services to houses and everything else was lead for 50 years . ...Do you know how many people die from peanuts every year ?
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If the water was treated correctly, or had enough dissolved limestone, etc. in it, the lead pipes developed a protective coating that slowed or stopped lead from getting into the drinking water. If they didn't, or the water supply was changed to a source that didn't have the correct dissolved solids & wasn't treated (think Flint, MI!)-bad things happened. That's why people need to use the undamaged brain cells they have left and think for themselves-they shouldn't blindly believe everything they're told! Leaded gasoline was a different story-the lead survived the combustion process & landed EVERYWHERE, and the more dust & dirt was kicked up, the more lead was available for absorption.
 
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