I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show jim rozen
wrote back on 29 Apr 2005 07:42:43 -0700 in
rec.crafts.metalworking :
In article , Eric R Snow says...

Now if you *really* want to culture some nasty stuff, take a
wipe across some of the paper money in your wallet, and streak
an agar plate with that. You'd be amazed what grows.

Well, it may be poison in itself, but does spread cholera, hepatitis,
and other pathgens. But I guess if you ingest your own bacteria it
won't matter. But it may promp you to ask: "Why does my toothbrush
taste like sh**?"

That's right, most of the sanitation issues revolve around
the other pathogens like the ones you mentioned, and other
larger endoparasites.

But your mouth (everyone's really) is chock *full* of E Coli
bacteria. There's a special class of injuries known as "Clenched
fist injuries" which occur when somebody punches somebody else
in the mouth with their fist. The skin gets broken on the
knuckles and the person gets a huge dose of nasty bacteria from
the teeth. Inevitiably gets infected.

NYC, decades ago, mostly on a lark, included "human" as one of the
bites to be reported to The Authorities. That was when they discovered
more people were bitten by other people, than by rats in the Big Apple.

Jim

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pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."