[TheForge] To Frosty

[Bruce Freeman]

Frosty,

You're WAY off-base here.  The only reason I'm even responding to this diatribe of yours it that it is so out of character for you.  You having a bad day, or WHAT?  As to "playing dumb," that's just not ME.  I don't do that.

I was not aware that natural gas combustion produced ANYTHING that ANYONE called "creosote."  I'm amazed that you object to my substituting "lampblack" for your term "creosote".  From my perspective, the differences are enormous.  

And, as a chemist, I assure you that there is one and only one compound called "caffeine."  There are other compounds, like theobromine, that also occur in coffee, tea, chocolate, etc., that may have similar or different effects on a person, but none of them are caffeine.  Everything I've read says there is caffein in all of these beverages.  I grant you, I haven't proven it myself.

Maybe I'm a stickler for terms, sometimes, but when things are simple to understand, I tend to object to making them complex.

Bruce
NJ

>>> frosty at customcpu.com 2/24/2006 7:09:15 PM >>>
You know Bruce I wrote a long reply in the same spirit as your post. I'm not 
sending it though simply because I'm sure everybody here recognizes your 
typical double standard based bloviation and is just as impressed as always.

First you take exception to a generic term used by certified professionals 
to describe many different but similar combustion byproducts.

Then you take exception when I point out that another commonly used generic 
term also refers to many different but similar compounds.

I'm not going to argue the point with you Bruce. In fact I don't plan on 
responding to you again when you're trying to prove how smart you are by 
playing dumb.

Frosty
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From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>


Lampblack.  AKA soot.  Don't know how tarry it is, but it definately sticks 
to glass.

No caffeine in tea?  Where did you come up with that?  AFAIK, there is 
caffeine in tea.  Also theobromine, and probably a lot of other stuff as 
well.

Bruce

>>> frosty at customcpu.com 2/23/2006 10:44:06 PM >>>
I think you're probably right but more than soot will form. The furnace guy
called it creosote but it's probably a tarry carbon gunk based stuff that
only looks like creosote.

It's like saying Tea has caffeine. Technically it's not caffeine but it's
close enough to be a quibble unless it's a technical discussion.

Frosty

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