Comments on: Would you lick it?

By: Matches Malone

Matches Malone — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:01:33 +0000

Of course, the fact that aspertame is in many ways more harmful to your body than actual sugar, shouldn’t stop you from experimenting on yourself….

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:23:59 +0000

Of course i would lick it. I’m a genuine chemist!

By: Rowan Simpson

Rowan Simpson — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:08:45 +0000

From a comment on Nat’s “Four Short Links” post:

“The aspartame story is great… trouble is it’s not true. The legend is he licked his fingers to turn the page of a book without realising he had Aspartame traces on his digits. Basing business anecdotes off Wikipedia entries? Now that’s licking your fingers after they’re been somewhere they shouldn’t.”

I read the story on Wikipedia, and I believed it. Didn’t even consider that it might not be true. Now some guy called Bart says it’s not true and I believe him. I’m so fickle!

By: Wolf

Wolf — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:34:07 +0000

… but that would be more likely a manager, not an entrepreneur…

By: jacem

jacem — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:56:57 +0000

The really smart guy gets someone else to lick it.

By: fredb001

fredb001 — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:37:07 +0000

I think tasting a tiny amount of something is pretty standard among chemists. At least it used to be. My father, a chemist, always took a little taste of a fluid to start to try to identify it. It’s something I would never do.

By: sharonam

sharonam — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:27:10 +0000

or the sort of person who is clumsy around chemicals LOL

By: microft

microft — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:32:40 +0000

The question in my mind is: Did he know it wouldn’t be harmful to lick it?

By: Matthew Holloway

Matthew Holloway — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:04:57 +0000

I was just going to say that Nic :)

By: Nic Wise

Nic Wise — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:41:10 +0000

the previous person to “lick their hand” was Albert Hoffman.

And he had a REALLY fun ride home.

;-)