..."There is some danger, however, if you breathe deeply of helium, of losing consciousness...

... (not to mention BRAIN DAMAGE)...

thru oxygen deprivation. It is best to perform such experiments sitting down. "

... Like on the "loo", right? Isn't that the traditional bagpipe - practice site, following the ancient & honorable tradition established after the Limeys banned the instrument, under penalty of death, from Scotland following the defeat of "Bonnie Prince Charlie" in 1748; Patriotic Scots Pipers had to surrepticiously play in the seclusion of the privvy in order to avoid the wrath of the persecuting redcoats; when indoor plumbing at length gained acceptance in the Hielands (that was aboot 1967, wasn't it?) the practice simply moved indoors with it and continues to this very day. Other than an occasional entanglement of a drone with the water-closet pull-chain and complaints from uninitiated Tourists billetted upstairs, it continues unabated.

...Or so we are told up here in Maine...

Has anybody tried this with nitrous oxide? Can you get through a whole slip-jig without laughing? Inquiring (and demented) minds want to know!

Keep up the good work here, Proffessor(s); this topic is a real GAS!!!

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