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From: Archimedes.Plutonium@dartmouth.edu (Archimedes Plutonium)
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Subject: Re: Seaborgium  or Jesusium; blasphemor Glenn Seaborg
Date: 24 Aug 1997 10:46:13 GMT
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Organization   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
In article <nntp859-tskirvin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> skirvin@uiuc.edu
(Robert M Skirvin) writes:

> I agree that humans are blasphemous when thy attach their names to elements 
> that should be the name of gods and goddesses.
>
>Robert M Skirvin (skirvin) - Prof - Natural Resources And Environmental 
>Sciences 
>Robert M. Skirvin
>Professor of Horticulture 
>
>258 E. R. Madigan Laboratory, MC-051 
>1201 West Gregory Drive 
>Urbana, Illinois 61801 
>Phone: 217-333-1530 
>E-mail: skirvin@uiuc.edu

>>Organization   University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>In article <smaller94-tskirvin@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>  tskirvin@uiuc.edu (Tim 
>>Skirvin) writes:
>>
>> You're old fashioned Dad. What? As opposed to Beelzububium? or Devilium?
>> But Archimedes is right we should have all the elements names with god names.
>>
>> Archimedes Plutonium [uiuc.edu] 
>>       Archimedes Plutonium [darmputh.edu] 

Hear, Hear, you two make quite a team. I cannot tell which of the two
of you have more or less sense. Where in the Bible does it say "spare
the rod and spoil the son"?