Message text written by "BP - \"Infarct a Laptop Daily\""
>So, paint-guys, tell me about lead.  Who/what said/commanded that you
couldn't have all-wonderful lead in your paint any more?  And what is to
prevent me from asking Heidi to save all the foil from her Chardonnay
bottles
and melting it down and putting it in my own, private-label paint for my
own
house* in the Vineyard, where it will last more than one rental season
before
it flakes off?

Rollered by, Christopher Gray<

Since I've never used lead in any of our formulations, I'm not really up to
speed on the intricacies of lead paint legislation. I do know that at least
as recently as 1988, that industrial coatings intended for use in areas
where no children would be present were allowed to keep using some lower
levels of lead. The big problem, as I heard it, was with young kids
ingesting lead paint chips, causing serious brain damage.  Of course
painters, who prove their manhood by spraying without a respirator, smoking
cigarettes in the midst of flammable materials and mixing epoxy with their
bare hands before eating a sandwich are quite another story. One of my MBA
professors categorized such behaviors as illustrations of Social Darwinism.

Mike E.