Re: [CH] Consumer Opinion
sasha (sasha@worldchat.com)
Mon, 25 May 1998 11:56:22 -0400
*How about posting this recipe*? Sounds wonderful.
At 10:15 AM 5/25/98 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>At 04:18 PM 5/21/98 -0400, Judith Stone wrote:
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>>By the way, Dave and I were bottling our Mother'n Law's Revenge hotsauce
>>this morning and when he tested it for taste, the hair on his arms stood
>>straight up! Can any of you "scientists" out there tell us what caused
>>that reaction. It was quite funny, at the time.
>>Thanks again, Judith
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>Here's my educated guess: Each hair has a small, smooth muscle, called an
>"erector pili" attached to the root. It's a vestigial structure in us since
>we have so little hair left on our bodies. For other mammals, though, they
>are quite useful in stressful situations -- think of cats, whose hair
>stands up when they are angry, scared or cold. My guess is that Dave was
>stressed (in a good sense) by the new batch of hotsauce, got an adrenalin
>rush, and his hair muscles did the appropriate thing.
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>Whether my answer is correct or not, I certainly think it ought to be!
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>David
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