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Did Someone Say a Dinner Party?

A list of 159 words by PossibleUnderscore.

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It's a hazardous world out there...poison all around. I've tried not to include too many drugs (including medicines) and have ignored the fact that too much of anything can poison you. We're going to focus on the pure and deadly.

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  • chained_bear commented on the list poisons

    Eeew... This list is creepy but fascinating.

    August 18, 2009

  • agatehinge commented on the list poisons

    Nice to learn I deliberately ingest at least 3 of these substances daily.

    March 10, 2010

  • sionnach commented on the list poisons

    Perhaps 'randon' and 'chronium' should be replaced by radon and chromium, respectively (and respectfully, of course)?

    Detailed instructions on the preparation of ricin can be found in one of David Foster Wallace's short stories (in the collection of Oblivion.

    March 10, 2010

  • sionnach commented on the list poisons

    This list worries me, frankly. I imagine all visitors to weirdnik unlucky enough to stumble across it, sitting petrified at their terminals as they succumb to the effects of undetectable (essentially zero) amounts of the various toxins not included on the list. Any practitioner of homeopathy will tell you that these dangerously low levels of exposure must correspond to a massive overdose.

    Readers of this page are urged to cover the mouth with a handkerchief, to avoid breathing in, and to back away from the monitor. Slowly, slowly, slowly.

    March 10, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list poisons

    Haha. Actually, this list has been on hold for a while because I wasn't (and still aren't) sure which poisons to include and which ones to leave out. I mean, if I were to add every poison in the world, you might as well go read the official lists and then I'd have to find where to draw the line between poisonous and non-poisonous, considering water and sugar are also poisons just to name a few. It all depends on the amount ingested.

    I suppose you could consider these 'my favourites' but at some stage, I'll probably get around to refining the list and making it more specific

    March 11, 2010

  • sionnach commented on the list poisons

    "All things are poison and nothing is without poison, only the dose permits something not to be poisonous".

    Paracelsus.

    March 13, 2010

  • milosrdenstvi commented on the list poisons

    Mithridates, he died old...

    March 13, 2010

  • reesetee commented on the list poisons

    Well, that's it, then. Just list every single word in the entire English language.

    Wait...is this just for English words?

    March 17, 2010

  • refenestration commented on the list poisons

    No....no one said a Dinner Party...

    April 4, 2010

  • refenestration commented on the list poisons

    Oh, and how yew berries have anything to do with Beryllium completely perplexes me!

    April 4, 2010