On August 30, 1999 4:16 PM, Met History [SMTP:[log in to unmask]] wrote:

> On a shiny-bright gutter sample from Joseph Cazeault, master metal-smith
> of
> Martha's Vineyard (100 running feet of copper gutter = $3000), I made
> separate daubs of ketchup, mustard, sweet relish, tartar sauce, canola
> mayo,
> buttermilk, regular mayo, orange juice [note to Mary: with pulp], and
> organic
> "lite" mayo.
>
> After 8 hours (I went to the beach) there were green rims of smudge
> around
> the mayo, buttermilk, ketchup and some others, but when I rinsed
> everything
> off, all the green patina washed off and the end result was that all the
> applied materials had brightened, not patinated, the copper - it looked
> like
> a freshly minted penny.


What kind of science is this?

Where's the control panel?  What's a daub?  Went to the beach?  Rinsed
with what?  Mayo, buttermilk, ketchup "and some others" !?!?!?!  Other
whatzat?  Where's the burger with all these condiments?

Fast food americans...trying to pack a lifetime into 8 hours.  Sheesh.

Signed,

did somebody just say have it your way hot and juicy