Is Your Silver-based Thermal Paste Really Silver?

From http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/22/2331228&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=96&tid=99

In my day we had to make thermal paste by grinding it down with stones.

Oh yeah? Well a TRUE Alchemist makes *his* from a brick of Tin. So suck it punk!

Silver bricks? You was lucky! In my day we had mine our own ore and smelt it down. Then our dad would assay it, and if it wasn't 99% pure, all we got for breakfast was CompUSA Silver Thermal Grease!

You had HEAVY ELEMENTS? In my day, the loose clouds of interstellar gas hadn't coalesced into star systems yet. All we had were hydrogen atoms and maybe a trace of helium around Christmas!

You had loose clouds of interstellar gas?!? *LUXURY* In my day we had nothing but the vacuum and had to wait for a universe to pop into existence before we could even begin to think about the existence of energy and matter. Kids today ....

You had a vacuum? All I got was a broom and a dust pan. *weeping*

You had a quantum foam vacuum of pure nothingness to pop universes out of? I WISH I had a vacuum of pure nothingness to pop universes out of. In my day all we had was this damn turtle.

You had a turtle? We plunged forever into the nothingness of pure void. Uphill. Both ways.

And if you tell the young people today, they won't believe you!