The Moneyless Chicken

When i was a kid,a freind of mines Dad was a film projectionist (Remember those things called Cinema's?) Anyway, as a kid he had a big jar of Mercury his Dad gave him. We used to play with it!  In retrospect we also used to play in a local tip (I made many a bike from spare parts thrown away) which I now believe had asbestos dumped there. We used to throw the stuff at each other and get a belt around the lugole for being like a Homepride flower grader when we got in. I guess we were lucky that neither substance killed us! (eek)