Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Denver Mods 7/26/84) 6/24/83; site drutx.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!drutx!jca From: jca@drutx.UUCP (ArnsonJC) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: biting aluminum foil Message-ID: <701@drutx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 10:48:33 EST Article-I.D.: drutx.701 Posted: Mon Nov 25 10:48:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Nov-85 20:27:56 EST References: <1662@utcsri.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 13 The foil acts as an electric conductor between your fillings. Your saliva is a mild electrolyte solution and therefore helps pass the "current" along. Therefore the strange sensation. -- jill c. arnson ihnp4!drutx!jca AT&A IS, Denver (303)538-4800 Lily Tomlin says that the key element in power dressing is "...sort of like a scarf, sort of like a tie, sort of like a ruffle, and it doesn't threaten anyone because you don't look good in it." From @u(The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe) (-: