Spies like who? or RIP M.R.D. Foot

[David Morris]

Accidentally ingesting plutonium (in powder form mixed w/ food - a
murderous act, unless plutonium powder is stupidly stored in someone's
kitchen), is a lot more plausible than mistaking plastic explosives
for chocolate.  Does plastic explosive taste like chocolate?

Davoid Morris

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:44 AM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> check out Ken Kalfus' story Pu-239 where some unlucky bastards if I'm mot
> mistaken actually eat plutonium
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> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Matthew Cissell <macissell at yahoo.es> wrote:
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>> The obituary in The Economist's March 3rd issue was for Michael Richard
>> Daniel Foot, "historian of secrets". One of the anecdotes from his writing
>> caught my eye. It mentions someone "who ate plastic explosive in the dark,
>> mistaking it for chocolate." Eating explosives? Preposterous. Who would
>> think of such a thing? What's that? Say what? Oh yes, well now that you
>> mention it it does ring a bell. Where have I read something like that
>> before? Hmm. Perhaps truth is stranger than fiction.
>>
>> MC
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