Semi OT: How to sober up quickly?

[Apellation Controlee]

Weren't there cases in the fifties of deaths with electric blankets? The frog-boiling effect, IIRC.

[Lobster]

The *what*?

David

[John Williamson]

If you put a frog straight into very hot water, it will try to jump out. If you put it into water, then start heating the water, it doesn't, as the change in temperature is too slow for it to notice, so it just swims round until it cooks. Allegedly.

[ARW]

It only works on frogs that have not had their brains removed:-)

"Several experiments involving recording the reaction of frogs to slowly heated water took place in the 19th century. In 1869, while doing experiments searching for the location of the soul, German physiologist Friedrich Goltz demonstrated that a frog that has had its brain removed will remain in slowly heated water, but his intact frogs attempted to escape the water."

who really cares how many French have died due to electic blankets?

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , ARW escribió:

French embassy for you on line 1...

[Lobster]

Wow, who'd have thought, eh?

David