slow clap
You win the thread.
Show’s over folks. We can all go home!
Hell, I am a college physics graduate who taught high school physics for two years, and I barely know what it is. I know it’s a base that is used in making soap and hominy, and that’s the extent of my knowledge. I would say your average yokel wouldn’t even know that “lye” is a word let alone what it might mean.
I am frequently staggered by what the general public doesn’t know.
You lye!
Ummm… Rifles, muskets and BB guns are not types of shotguns.
No, they’ll think someone set up us the bomb.
Reminds me of every scuba accident ever- the divers were always using “Oxygen” bottles. Um, no.
They are all guns, and if someone uses one on you you get shot.
QED. 
The content may have come from AP, but the only headline I can find on the interwebs that says “Acid attack victim gets new face” is on yahoo.
It’s not even clear (to me) the actual wording of the article is AP - I can’t find it elsewhere.
The *photo *is from AP - cf this story.
This is ataully a news story sort of in my backyard. At least my local news didn’t mess up and call it acid:
http://www.wcax.com/story/21412225/vt-woman-gets-face-transplant-in-boston
And here’s the original story from when it happened:
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=6642546
A sad story…though hopefully her transplant works out and she can live a better life. I just don’t understand what would posses anyone to do something so horrendous to another human being, especially one they said they claimed to have loved at one time. 
Oooh…chemical!
Can we agree that people who don’t know the words *lye *and *caustic *would have known the word chemical? At least as many people as know the word acid?
What if it were Lyesergic Acid?
Given that news outfits are complaining that Google News and other aggregators are costing them revenue because people see the headline and don’t feel the need to click through, wouldn’t it be better business to just use “lye,” where people might have to click through to figure out what it is, while still retaining enough sensationalism (face transplant) to get their interest?
Yes they are. Here, look down this metal tube…
BANG!!!
Oops, sorry about your missing head…
Dude, you’re trippin’ me out.
That’s a heck of a BB gun you’ve got there!
I know they’re not. That’s the point. A rifle is a rifle, a musket is a musket, and a BB gun is a BB gun. I was talking about how things are lumped together and called the wrong name.
Alkali attack.
Yes, you said they were all lumped together and called assault rifles by the media, after you lumped them all together and called them shotguns.
I was hoping someone would note that whatever the chemical that was used, doing that to another person (or any living thing) is a vile, inhuman act. The perpetrator of such an act deserves the harshest punishment imaginable.
Maybe this thread, the clip vs. magazine thread, and any other of its type could get combined into some sort of pedantic douchbag omnibus thread.