Bizarre but my interest is piqued.

Margaret, the site is a spoof — like this one.

What's bizarre is that the dehydrated water site actually lets you pay for their bogus wares via PayPal.

As H. L. Mencken once observed: "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public".

HAHA! I've seen the water site before, but this one almost had me. Thanks for bringing me back to earth.

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public."

That's what Yamamoto thought… :)

Hey Ben,

You need to watch those racial slurs – I think?

Bill, I referred to a specific individual. If you know your history, then you should know his pivotal role.

Racial? Slur? You need to stop reading things that aren't there, I think?

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"Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby"

So true, and Bush is a fine example.

Actually, Yamamoto didn't underestimate the American public. He knew the odds weren't very good, but maybe a sucker punch would take America down long enough for Japan to cement its position in the Far East to the point that there would be no effective response. Now, if you fast forward ~60 years, it ain't Japan who's going broke. You just gotta take the long view, Ben. ;}

I think Mr.Tang actually said something pro-American.

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They will just send you the empty can. Its crazy they actually have a mfg plant of some sort to just make and label empty cans.

At least they removed the highly toxic Hydrogen Hydroxide ;)

“…the highly toxic Hydrogen Hydroxide”

:) Well, now I just have to mention this site:
http://www.dhmo.org/

At least they removed the highly toxic Hydrogen Hydroxide ;)

Leaving the even more toxic deuterium and tritium oxides….

Ben, I think that you missed the tongue-in-cheek comment from Bill…

But seriously, for three years I have paid my dues and faithfully read every thread here trying to find water that weights less than the one I use, nothing..not one decent suggestion. (helium balloons don't do it for me)
Considering all the scientists,experts and smarty pants around here, someone ought to come up with a solution.
Franco

is how a topic on BPL can twist and turn in totally unexpected directions! We start with an innocent spoof, a pertinent response, then on to sociology and politics — with an interruption from one idiotic accusation of racism — and now delving ever deeper into chemistry! :)

FWIW, I think you're taking this way too seriously, Ben. Any thread that starts with dehydrated H2O as the topic is "a spoof, the whole spoof, and nothing but the spoof", from beginning to end. Even the racism bit; I mean, how does one seriously accuse a person of Chinese ethnicity who makes a sarcastic comment about a person of Japanese ethnicity of racism? Whichever way Bill intended it, I thought it was pretty funny and sort of fit right in with the general spoofiness. But then, I'm a guy who can laugh when he looks in the mirror…..

Au contraire… I am not being serious — which is what the :) emoticon is all about. To me it is almost always fascinating to trace topic tangents on this (and other) forum.

As for the comment on racism, I call it idiotic both because of what it is and because I find it strangely… well, idiotic! :)

FWIW, idiocy has always played a prominent role in comedy. :(

I'm working on the design for boots made of fruit leather.

Fruit leather? Sweet! :)

Denis,
I hope that you're going to put OP Sacks over the fruit leather boots to keep the bears at bay.