[Dysko]

I know a guy whose chem teacher was arrested for having made cocaine in the school lab...

[Ford Prefect]

I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.

[Turey]

I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.

Meth maybe?

[Ford Prefect]

That's what I was thinking, but that seems too crazy to be true. I mean, nobody who knows how to cook meth would expect to be able to do it in a high school lab without getting caught. And nobody who knows they're going to get caught making meth in a high school is under the illusion that they'll get just a slap on the wrist.

[aldo_14]

That's what I was thinking, but that seems too crazy to be true. I mean, nobody who knows how to cook meth would expect to be able to do it in a high school lab without getting caught. And nobody who knows they're going to get caught making meth in a high school is under the illusion that they'll get just a slap on the wrist.

You can probably get instructions for cooking meth off the 'net nowadays, though.

[Rictor]

My teacher just got arrested for arranging a meeting with a 14 year old girl, who was actually a cop .

It's funny though, he didn't seem like the guy. Then again, they never do...

I guess Oscar Wilde isn't going to be appearing on the required reading list any time soon, eh?

*ba dum pssh*

[Dysko]

I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.

Actually he didn't made it in the lab, he only made some final work to the cocaine.
He wasn't caught the first times because he remained at school after students left. Moreover, you can't have a quick investigation here in Italy
Though I'm sure he made something with cocaine in the school lab because I heard it also in the news.

[Ford Prefect]

I guess Oscar Wilde isn't going to be appearing on the required reading list any time soon, eh?

*ba dum pssh*

Maybe I'm missing your reference here, but Oscar Wilde wasn't exactly partial to the dames.

[Nuclear1]

I guess Oscar Wilde isn't going to be appearing on the required reading list any time soon, eh?

*ba dum pssh*

Maybe I'm missing your reference here, but Oscar Wilde wasn't exactly partial to the dames.

Exactly.

(Oscar Wilde = gay; teacher = pedo, but still to females; teacher != Oscar Wilde)

[Ford Prefect]

But the teacher's not there anymore, so he has no direct effect on the reading list, with the exception of his successor's possible desire to avoid uncomfortable, incidental parallels between the content of the reading and the unfortunate, real-life events, which is what I thought Rictor was driving at.

[NGTM-1R]

I keep expecting someone to make a Lolita reference, but you disappoint me.

[Nuclear1]

I keep expecting someone to make a Lolita reference, but you disappoint me.

But it's an American literature class.

Nobokov was not American.

[NGTM-1R]

Details, details.

[Flipside]

Do you wanna be in my gang?

[Mika]

I seriously doubt that the equation posted earlier has only 11 or 10 solutions. For me it seems that it has 21 solutions.

But x value seems to be correct.

Mika

[Flipside]

It's gone from Literature to Maths....

Duck and Cover people!

[Mika]

Is there a problem with posting something related to the only thing you assume to know a little. But only a little :

Back to the topic:
I've been thinking that I should read some literary classics (also American) now that I don't need to do University work any more. Mark Twain's work has interested me, so has Charles Dickens'. I think I should check out also Dante's Divina Comedia and Kafka's Metamorphosis. Would any of you have other recommendations? Shakespeare doesn't count here.

By the way, has anyone read novel titled "Who goes there", I forgot the writer. Movie called "The Thing" is based on that IIRC. Any comments on the "Starship Troopers" novel would also be helpful.

Some nice books I've read:
Mika Waltari's "Sinuhe Egyptian"
Frank Herbert's "Dune"
Richard Adams' "Watership Down"
George Orwell's "Animal Farm", "Catalonia Catalonia!" and "In the year 1984"
Stanislaw Lem's "Astronauts"

Mika

[Flipside]

Is there a problem with posting something related to the only thing you assume to know a little. But only a little

You probably know far more about maths than I, hence the 'duck and cover', it's not an attack, it's an admission of my own inbred fear of numbers, especially unreal ones

[Mika]

I know 

[MP-Ryan]

I've never heard of cocaine being made in a lab.

Possible, but unlikely.  Heroin or morphine is easier.