Re: This kind of idiocy is not confined to matters IT
"I recall an undergraduate experiment that required refluxing from boiling petrol."
Arrived in the lab one morning to find a post-grad already in (he seemed to run on a 25-hour clock so this wasn't surprising). For some time previously he'd been doing benzene extractions and was now trying to recover his dirty benzene by distilling it. A couple of litres or so were boiling vigorously in a large round-bottom flask heated by a couple of bunsens.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
