At 10:41 AM 8/12/02 -0700, you wrote:
> > I think it was called the green golf ball joke because there is no way you
> > can find a green golf ball on a lawn (execpt using a metal detector).
> >
>I didn't think golf balls were metal... I thought that they were some kind
>of ceramic or plastic composite...  Though, I've never sawed one in half,
>they just don't *feel* like metal.
>
>What are they made of?

There is a hard plastic shell, a rubber (I think) core, that is wound
with something that looks and smells like rubber bands. At least that's
what one looked like (mumble) years ago when I disassembled it.

BTW, there is an Urban Legend that golf balls will release a deadly
gas if broken open.

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