# Alaways shootin' yer mouth off, aintcha? Newslink

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 9, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaways-shootin-yer-mouth-off-aintcha-newslink/520649 "2009-12-09T22:55:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaways-shootin-yer-mouth-off-aintcha-newslink/520649/1 "2009-12-09T22:55:00Z")

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Our new gum comes in 3 flavors-berry, chocolate, & dynamite!

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> A chemistry student from the northern Ukrainian city of Konotop was killed when a stick of chewing gum exploded in his mouth, Ukrainian media reported on Tuesday.

WHEE! Something new to be paranoid about!

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaways-shootin-yer-mouth-off-aintcha-newslink/520649/2 "2009-12-09T23:08:51Z")

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> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#):
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> Our new gum comes in 3 flavors-berry, chocolate, & dynamite!
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> [http://www.aroundglobe.net/2009/12/ukrainian-student-killed-by-exploding.html](http://www.aroundglobe.net/2009/12/ukrainian-student-killed-by-exploding.html)
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> WHEE! Something new to be paranoid about!

Meh. I don’t keep bottles of explosives around, and I never dip my gum. 😃

I actually thought it might have been a malevolent act by a third party, or a mistake in manufacturing. Those would have made me paranoid.

Also, what does dipping gum in citric acid do, anyways?

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2009, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alaways-shootin-yer-mouth-off-aintcha-newslink/520649/3 "2009-12-10T03:16:23Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> Also, what does dipping gum in citric acid do, anyways?

I suspect it would just make it sour, kind of like a “Sour Patch Kid” gum effect.