<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I remember correctly, = there alsowas this guy named Hans Conried who did a TV show called "Fractured Flickers", = but not the same person. I remember the science series very well.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu href="mailto:hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu">Conrad Hoffsommer</A> = </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, June 01, 2003 = 4:01 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Blood as a Pin = Driving Fluid OTOTOTOT</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>At 00:26 06/01/2003 -0500, you wrote:<BR>>I  = would think that since blood is as salty as sea water it would<BR>>rust = the heck out of the tuning pins.   When I was a kid (in = the<BR>>3rd or 5th grade) they showed us the Bell Telephone movie about<BR>>Hemo the Magnificent  and a few others.  I thought Hemo said = blood<BR>>was the same saltiness as sea water.   Then a real life guy<BR>>botched the film  reels---was he also the = narrator?  I forget that<BR>>actor's name. -----rm<BR>><BR><BR><BR>The = narrator for Hemo the Magnificent was Hans Conreid.<BR><BR>Great actor (IMHO) and = real nice in person.  Back around 1970 when I was <BR>stationed in Long = Beach, I visited a college friend in Altadena.  Her <BR>parents invited me = to stay for dinner, but warned me that an old family <BR>friend would also be there.<BR><BR>Turned out to be Conreid.  Very enjoyable evening<BR><BR>BTW, the salinity of blood is thought to be that of seawater  - billions <BR>(or at least many millions) of years ago.<BR><BR><BR><BR>Conrad Hoffsommer<BR><BR>Early to rise: early to bed;<BR>Makes a man healthy, and socially = dead.<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>pianotech= list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org= /mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>