View Full Version : Party Pills, DHMO and Jacqui Dean
I don't know if anyone's heard of this.. but its pretty lol.
(takes a bow)
http://www.radiolive.co.nz/AudioPodcasts/tabid/109/Default.aspx#
http://mikeenz.blogspot.com/2007/09/jacqui-dean-and-dhmo-full-story.html
scoop had it a yesterday.
Remember she is a Doctor/Medical pro.
dannefaerd
14-09-2007, 14:49
Well done Mike :)
bahahah
MP tries to ban water
New 2:50PM Friday September 14, 2007
By Megan Gnad
Otago MP Jacqui Dean felt like a bit of a "wally" yesterday, after it was revealed she tried to ban North Otago's most precious commodity - water.
Mrs Dean has confirmed she was caught in a hoax by an online blogger asking for her help in banning dihydrogen monoxide - which, it turns out, is the chemical name for ordinary H20.
The blunder is a long-running hoax that seeks to trick gullible MPs into calling for the eradication of water.
A letter, signed by Mrs Dean, was sent to Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton last month, asking if the Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs had a view on banning the "drug".
A Blogspot.com blogger, Michael Earley, of Auckland, published the original letter to Mrs Dean yesterday.
On Tuesday's first reading of the Misuse of Drugs (Classification of BZP) Amendment Bill, Mr Anderton took the opportunity to rub Mrs Dean's nose in it.
Mrs Dean responded with a note across the house that said "touchi - you got me".
When contacted yesterday she said she realised she had made a mistake, but could see the funny side.
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She had been in email contact with a constituent, who said he had a bachelor of pharmacology, but despite a Google search by one of her colleagues, Mrs Dean could find nothing to verify it was not a lethal substance.
"I have been well and truly set up - they were trying to catch me out," she said. "When I got the letter back I laughed out loud - I think it's quite funny."
Mrs Dean said everyone had been "pointing the finger" at her.
"I have been taken for a ride - I just hope it does not detract from the real issue," she said.
Mr Anderton said he would not be banning dihydrogen monoxide or asking for the experts to consider it.
He responded saying: "Thank you for your letter of 23 August, 2007 about your constituent call for the ban on dihydrogen monoxide, (but) dihydrogen monoxide is water," he said.
"It may have been described to you as colourless, odourless, tasteless and causing the death of uncounted thousands of people every year...(but) I had to respond that the experts had no intention of (banning water)."
It is not the first time MPs have had a brush with the hoax.
In 2001, a staff member in Green MP Sue Kedgley's office responded to a request for support saying she would be "absolutely supportive of the campaign to ban this toxic substance".
A quick call around the phone book proved Mrs Dean was not on her own in believing the technical name sounds like a lethal substance.
Oamaru woman Bronwyn Shallish had no idea what it meant either."It sounds like a chemical - it's a long word, but I probably could have worked it out," she said.
Whiterocks resident Atholea Shanks found the name "fascinating" and thought it sounded like a gas rather than a party pill.
A retired Oamaru woman, who declined to be named, thought it must have been a peroxide-type chemical.
- OAMARU MAIL
She had been in email contact with a constituent, who said he had a bachelor of pharmacology, but despite a Google search by one of her colleagues, Mrs Dean could find nothing to verify it was not a lethal substance.
She needs better lackies:
Go on, Google it yourself.
You have to go no more than 3 entries in to find the hoax.
S
Shane396
14-09-2007, 17:30
PWNAGE lol go Mike
Nice Mike,stick it to the man
Aren't you running to be "The Man"?
No, hes running to be a man. One man to go kick stupid MPs in the ass and show how idiotic they all really are.
Good on yeh MikeE :D
**edit**
I just wiki'd it to see who else had been duped over the years, and it seems that Jaqui Dean's already made it on to wikipedia as the latest chump.
In 2007 Jacqui Dean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqui_Dean), New Zealand National Party MP, fell for the hoax, writing a letter to Associate Minister of Health Jim Anderton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Anderton) asking "Does the Expert Advisory Committee on Drugs have a view on the banning of this drug?" -taken from wikipedia
Yeah, I added that to wikipedia :-)
Someone deleted it, then I readded it an inclduded the sources, since then its been tidied up.
Heh, its on www.snopes.com now :-)
Jackie and Jim made the 'Exchange of the Week' in the Dom Post this morning. It was scored 0/10 and 9/10 respectively.
Jackie also got the 'Wally of the week' award.
S
Scan for me please?
Also check out the first 3 pages of results when you google her name :-) about 40% refer to the water ban.
I had hoped she had learnt the lesson of proper research before reaching for regulation or a banstick, judging by her response on Radio Live I don't think she has.
lol, in NBR's private bin too.
Got bored... when you said banstick this came to mind :D
http://i132.photobucket.com/albums/q2/jawa_nz/banjaqui2yi5.gif
**edit, rehosted... maybe its a bit quicker on bucket.
Shane396
17-09-2007, 21:49
HI 5!! Veerry Nice i LIKE!
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