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Subject: Re: [OM] Don't wear flip flops around scorpions!
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:26:22 -0400
Be sure to save the scorpions for lunch... after cutting the stinger 
off, of course.  From watching a survival show on the Discovery channel 
last night I learned that scorpions (in Balize at least) taste just like 
pea soup.  Well, pea soup with tree bark in it.  :-)

Chuck Norcutt


NSURIT@xxxxxxx wrote:
> That is especially true if you are in a darkroom, loading film in the dark  
> and your jeans are so ragged that they are tickling the top of your feet.   
> That is just one of the lessons I've learned as I've finally made my way 
> back  into a wet darkroom.  No, I didn't get stung, however it wasn't until I 
> was  in there, in the dark, with the film out of the canister, that I 
> started  thinking about often we kill a scorpion inside the house. That 
> didn't 
> help get  the film on the roll.  In fact it may have contributed to my 
> dropping 
> one  roll on the floor while I was trying to load it.  Cr%p, now not only 
> do I  have to worry about one crawling across my foot but I also am going to 
> have  to feel around to find my film and risk picking one up.  Got those two 
>  rolls loaded and then went and put on some shoes. I'd like to tell you the 
> two  rolls of 120 went better, but I be lying to you.  Didn't drop either 
> one,  but I think it took longer to load it than it did to process it.
>  
> Another lesson was that even though the Paterson tank takes either one roll 
>  of 120 film or two rolls of 35mm, the two rolls of 35mm take more  
> chemistry.  I knew that and had forgotten it.  It has been three  or four 
> years 
> since I've done any processing.  
>  
> It is coming back and one rule that I will observe from here on out  is, 
> "No flip flops in the darkroom."
>  
> Bill Barber 
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