From: ralph@nomeking.com   
      
   On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:00:53 +1100, Peter Bowditch   
    wrote:   
      
   >Jan Drew  wrote:   
   >   
   >>It is also in mercury amalgams.   
   >   
   >I just noticed that this is in fact two tautologies.   
   >   
   >There is the obvious one of using the idiotic expression "mercury   
   >amalgams" when all amalgams contain mercury, so a mercury amalgam   
   >would be an amalgam of mercury with itself. (How do you get these   
   >liquid fillings to stay in top teeth?)   
   >   
   >The other tautology is to say that mercury is "also in mercury   
   >amalgams".   
   >   
   >You don't see stupidity like this every day. (Unless you come to   
   >m.h.a, of course.)   
   >   
   Wasn't long ago that a poster here complained that her dentist was a   
   fraud because he said he was givng her"'silver amalgam fillings", when   
   they actually had mercury in them...   
      
   rj   
      
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