[hammyhavoc]

Interestingly, a lot of folks used to repeat the x-ray thing, that's where the term "eyeball cancer machine" came from.

[rbanffy]

Well... Technically we spent a lot of time looking down the barrel of a particle accelerator...

[hammyhavoc]

I still do! Love my Sony CRT PVM. I bask in its glorious glow like a serpent in the sun.

[numpad0]

Adding to my own shame, TIL not all free-flying electrons are X-ray