According to cnyradio.com, complete with pre-recorded PSAs
and “interviews” with a “DHMO expert,” the pair told viewers how athletes
everywhere are using the substance to enhance their performance. They talked
about marriages are better when couples use DHMO, but even “just a thimbleful”
of this “colorless, odorless substance” can be dangerous to one’s health if
used the wrong way. Yet, it’s a relief that reasonable amounts “are not
harmful” because DHMO is “everywhere.”
If you were paying attention closely enough to the
broadcast, you may have caught them explain that DHMO stands for “dihydrogen
monoxide.” And if you remembered even a tiny bit of high school chemistry, you
know that’s just the wordy way of describing the chemical formula H2O — also
commonly known as plain ol’ water.
If listeners didn’t figure out the gag from what was being
said on-air, they hopefully realized it when they visited, at Ted and Amy’s
urging, dhmo.org, a real website for the not-so-real “Dihydrogen Monoxide
Research Division” of the fictitious “United States Environmental
Assessment Center
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