I´m sorry to say that Americans seem to have confused the whole situation
by being so damnably conservative.

While everybody else East of Boston has adopted the metric system, only
Americans (and some South American tribals) haven't

While everybody else East of Boston has adopted the standard names for
chemicals, Americans (and the Mbuti pygmies) haven't.

So you're still pushing for Fosfor, while the rest of the world is quite
happy with Phosphorous.

Isn't 'kerosene' a light oil mostly used for jet fuel? Isn't it the same
stuff my old grandma used to use to keep her paraffin heater going?

Or is it the stuff my dear old dad used to try and relieve his
constipation called 'paraffin oil' - a slightly thicker substance, but
still from the same underground mineral source? And isn't that just the
same as the 'mineral oil' which I use for the same purpose? (Except that
here in the tropics we usually suffer the exact opposite).

For shells, always use 'mineral' oil, never vegetable.

The French knew this - that is why they kept bad wines and perfectly awful
brandy in barrels for decades, until they evaporated off all the bad bits
and became fine clarets, burgundies, and cognacs.

best regards


Richard Parker
Siargao Island, The Philippines.


My website at www.coconutstudio.com is about the island and its people,
coastal early humans, fishing, coconuts, bananas and whatever took my
fancy at the time.

PS I have a wonderful collection of very rare Pacific cones for sale, all
very carefully anointed with Virgin Olive Oil. (The green growths on them
can easily be removed by dunking them in Muriatic Acid - the American name
for hydrochloric acid).

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