"Recipe" email

"Recipe" email

While I was home for the holidays in December, 2003, I received this email in response to a "Make L$D Fast" chain letter (a spoof of the Dave Rhodes letter) I posted to the web.
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 11:55:23 -0800 (PST)
From: [Removed]
Subject: I need your help
To: watrous@cs.rutgers.edu
your instructions on how to make lsd were the simplest on the internet. I followed your recipe almost down to a tee but was not able to make lsd. here are the things that i think might have possibly gone wrong 1. I started my recipe with fosters beer only bottles instead of cans ,it boiled off at 32 hours. 2. what was left was ergot im sure i added milk but left in freezer a tad to long when i took out the milk was iced over,oops. 3.Stirred in the lysine but it said L-lysine on the bottle is this the same? Does the filler in the tablets hurt the recipe?(particularly microcellulose and magnesium stearate+silica) 4.used 3% hydrogen at 8 cups to substitute.5. my basement is about 68 degrees there I let it set for exactly three days at the end of which was still bubbling but had changed to a clearer liquid was the reaction complete?Will this temperature do?( I can get lysine out by dilluting in water removing the extra then evaporating, if necessary) I tried the dilution but it didnt work tried the pure which also failed. Hopefully you can help me find my mistake I am down to my last penny just as you were in 88 I pray for your help.
 
Sincerely,
 
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I took it to be a joke response in the spirit of the page it was referencing and even replied "This is funny. Mind if I publish it on my web site?" Then I got a follow up phone call.


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