While I hate advertising, I like well-written advertising copy. Whilst shopping for a Periodic Table shower curtain (277,000 hits with Google), I encountered the following:
"This might not remind you what Laureth is (it's a contraction for lauryl-ether, made from the sulfation of lauryl alcohol, but you knew that), but it's hard to deny the Periodic Table Shower Curtain's usefulness." (Italics are mine.)
Let's not pretend. One does not purchase a Periodic Table shower curtain because it is useful. That's what your business-card sized Periodic Table is for. And perfectly functional plain curtains can be had for a fraction of the price of the covetable Periodic Table shower curtain.
Why, then, you might ask, would I be shopping for a Periodic Table shower curtain? Why, for my new apartment, of course. There's a nifty little studio in Belltown, miraculously in my price range, that I'm hoping to move into around the end of the month. It's right on 1st Ave, comfortably bikeable to/from the Hill and the U-District. Maybe I'll get it settled in time to have another New Year's Eve/Housewarming party.
By the way, CH3-(CH2)n - COONa is soap. But you knew that too. r dr r.
