[sharadov]

When I was in high school there was this bottle with Mercury floating in it. We would put it in our hands and mess with it. Mercury has this viscous texture and breaks up and coagulates. Only later did I find out how toxic it is.

[rrrrrrrrrrrryan]

My parents literally rubbed mercury into their open wounds as children in the 60s. Mercurochrome was a tremendously popular antiseptic, and wasn't banned in the USA until 1998.