Subject: Digression: a drinking-song for chemists

(the tune is "The Irish Washerwoman", and must be sung very fast after a
 prolonged infusion of aqueous ethanol.)

Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde
Sodium citrate, ammonium cyanide
Mix'em together, and then add some benzene
And top off the punch with trichloroethylene!

Got gassed up last night on some furfuryl alcohol,
Followed it up with a gallon of propanol.
Tanked up on hydrazine 'till afternoon,
Then spat on the floor and blew up the saloon!

Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde
Powdered aluminum, nitrogen iodide,
Chlorates, permanganates, nitrates galore!
Just swallow one drink, and you'll never need more!

Whiskey, Tequila, and rum are too tame.
No, the stuff that I drink must explode into flame
When I breathe and dissolve all the paint in the room
And rattle the walls with a ground-shaking boom!

Paradimethylaminobenzaldehyde
Go soak your head in a good strong insecticide.
Slosh it around and impregnate your brain
With dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane!


(author unknown)

(Don't you feel like that sometimes after 14 hours in the lab?)