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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Jul 20, 2004
Possibly ones infected with fungi. 
Students will probably be the most familiar with these.
BIGAL
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Jul 20, 2004
Gin & tonic glows under UV. Not sure which component is causing the effect, though.
RF
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 20, 2004
I guess now would be a bad time to mention that cat urine also glows under UV. 
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Jul 20, 2004
No, not at all...I'd just like to know how you discovered that?
RF
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Jul 20, 2004
Tonic contains quinine which is fluorescent under UV. BIGAL
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 20, 2004
It's something I've heard in useless info threads and from cat owner hints.
I know of something else that glows under UV from watching forensic specials on tv... ...
Ahem...
Apparently.
ahem...
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Jul 20, 2004
i don't know whether cat's pee is naturally fluorescent - it could be.... because of hormones etc. However, I do know that if you have a problem with cats'soiling and yoou have more than one cat, you can identify the culprit by feedibng the cat's (one at a time) with a fluorescent dye caslled fluorescein. Then shine a UV lamp (in the dark) onto a soiled area. If it lights up then you know which cat is the culprit. 
BIGAL
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riotact : like a phoenix from the ashes Posted Jul 21, 2004
Who would have believed that from humble beginnings this thread would now be well over its 100th post? hats off to pickles, hooray! in these few weeks we have seen science both sane and mad, poetry and politics, laughter and horror.
should we be so bold as to ask the art dept. for a pickle smiley? or bolder still, start a movement to rename thing pickle? to paraphrase the great helmsman, "let a hundred pickles glow and then some!"
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 21, 2004
Does that subject say "The pickle is long but life is short?" 
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jul 21, 2004
yea how great the pickle,
yet how fickle goes the glow
yea how great the pickle
onto around the light throw
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The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 Posted Jul 21, 2004
yes yes I think a pickle smiley would be nice.
Maybe we should build a shrine to the holy eternal ever glowing pickle.
We could start a pickle worshiping cult and call it "The followers of the pickle" or "Guardians of the Pickle of Light" or something like that.
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The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 Posted Jul 21, 2004
or maybe we should see if this lasts to 500 postings before honoring the pickle
I have noticed that the amount of people posting here has been growing in numbers
Soon I will be writing a guide entry on the subject of the infamous glowing pickle
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 22, 2004
"Infamous"... what did the great gerkin do to be "infamous". The Glowing Pickle didst butst bringeth lighteth intoeth our lives... eth.
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The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 Posted Jul 22, 2004
hmmm... your right, I guess that should have been "famous glowing pickle"
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Baron Grim Posted Jul 22, 2004
Or even "The Most Exhalted and Illuminated and Hey, Let's Admit it, Gosh Darn Nice Glowing Pickle".
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jul 22, 2004
For lo the year was the year, and the time was the time, and into the land of the unbelievers and matchstick chair manafacturing computer users, came once more the glowing glow of teh pickle, and freedom! release! exaulted and mighty the pickle and its glow did cast unto the land such a glow as a glowing pickle and none other can, for it was pickle, and it was glow, oh yes, not a single potato tied to another potato with a David Bowie on each end did interfer or intrude, for isn't that so
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The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 Posted Jul 26, 2004
To the High Mighty and Exaulted Glowing Pickle!!!
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BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows Posted Jul 28, 2004
Has anyone else realised that if you add the number of responses on this thread to those on the parent thread, it well exceeds 10,000!
BIGAL
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The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 Posted Jul 28, 2004
actually now the parent thread exceeds 10000 posts on its own, but if you add the two together, then the pickle helped the boring and banal thread reach its goal a few hours ahead of schedule
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- 101: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Jul 20, 2004)
- 102: A Super Furry Animal (Jul 20, 2004)
- 103: Baron Grim (Jul 20, 2004)
- 104: A Super Furry Animal (Jul 20, 2004)
- 105: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Jul 20, 2004)
- 106: A Super Furry Animal (Jul 20, 2004)
- 107: Baron Grim (Jul 20, 2004)
- 108: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Jul 20, 2004)
- 109: riotact : like a phoenix from the ashes (Jul 21, 2004)
- 110: Baron Grim (Jul 21, 2004)
- 111: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jul 21, 2004)
- 112: The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 (Jul 21, 2004)
- 113: The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 (Jul 21, 2004)
- 114: Baron Grim (Jul 22, 2004)
- 115: The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 (Jul 22, 2004)
- 116: Baron Grim (Jul 22, 2004)
- 117: 2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... (Jul 22, 2004)
- 118: The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 (Jul 26, 2004)
- 119: BigAl Patron Saint of Left Handers Keeper of the Glowing Pickle and Monobrows (Jul 28, 2004)
- 120: The Luggage (7 + 5 + 4) * 2 + 2 * 5 = 42 (Jul 28, 2004)
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