Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site h-sc1.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!greipa!pesnta!hplabs!qantel!dual!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!seismo!harvard!h-sc1!lsmith From: lsmith@h-sc1.UUCP (Liz Smith) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: refugee donuts & whipped cream behaviour Message-ID: <497@h-sc1.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 10:31:31 EDT Article-I.D.: h-sc1.497 Posted: Sun Aug 4 10:31:31 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 06:37:44 EDT Reply-To: lsmith@h-sc1.UUCP (Liz Smith) Distribution: net Organization: Harvard Univ. Science Center Lines: 14 >In article <9446@ucbvax.ARPA> mayfield@ucbvax.ARPA (Jim Mayfield) writes: >In college, we kept a bowl of jello with ``whipped cream'' around for an >entire school year. The jello hardened into a cloudy lump, but the topping >remained completely unchanged, either in consistency or color, for the >duration of the experiment. Makes you wonder what it does when you eat it. When I was a freshman in college, one of the Freshman Union's specialities was a piece of sticky ham steak with a glob of even stickier potatoes au gratin. We had a plate of said stuff resting sideways on top of the bathroom door moulding (no puns intended). The item showed *no change* over a period of several months, until one day during a water fight it got wet and slid slowly to the ground . . . Liz Smith