[NewCandle] NYC passing gas

[Keith Nagel]

Well imagine the first Native American to lick a bufo alvarius.

http://www.erowid.org/animals/toads/toads.shtml

But my point with the beetle was the secretory cells that produce
the H2O2. They claim 25% concentration, in the nabe you were writing
about for your application. I wonder what their secret is?

K.


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I had forgotten about that strange guy, even though Dawkins is one of my favorite writers. His beetle anecdote is typically Brit,
no?

"During Charles Darwin's education at the University of Cambridge he became involved in a national craze for the competitive
collecting of beetles. On one occasion in 1828 he stripped bark from a dead tree and caught a rare beetle in each hand, then saw
another new species. With the habits of an egg-collector, he popped the beetle from his right hand into his mouth and grabbed the
other with his free hand. The beetle which he had placed in his mouth, likely a bombardier beetle, "ejected some intensely acrid
fluid, which burnt [his] tongue," forcing him to spit it out; he lost the beetle, as well as the third.