Seen in Print

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Remember when your mother would say "wash your hands i don't know where they have been". But mom you don't know where the soap came from

I think we can all admit, your contribution to this latest topic about breast milk rockets you to the very tip-top of the list of Special Characters-in-Residence on this forum.

[rogruth]

There was a small brewery in Kingston,NY, that sold Mothers Milk beer or ale that was very good.

[robert.]

Thanks Murph. In celebration your invited over for some ice cream. I'm serving Rum nipple. Guaranteed to be the breast you ever had.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

ohdearlord. I'm happy to make your acquaintance but I'll pass of the hospitality outreach, but only because I am not eating ice cream anymore.
Invite Wayne. He'll pro'ly eat anything (he's more adventurous than I, I'll bet.) In fact, I bet he's had cactus milk.

[HONDO74]

I don't think I can top the last one, You gentlemen took it to the outer limits.

Anyway have fun with this one,

[webenda]

ohdearlord. I'm happy to make your acquaintance but I'll pass of the hospitality outreach, but only because I am not eating ice cream anymore.
Invite Wayne. He'll pro'ly eat anything (he's more adventurous than I, I'll bet.) In fact, I bet he's had cactus milk.

I have, but only once. Toxic alkaloids caused nausea, diarrhea, and temporary paralysis. Those stories about obtaining water from barrel cactus are seriously misleading. The doctor told me, in addition to alkaloids, barrel cactus has high levels of another toxin, Oxalic Acid. That is what causes the milk to taste so bitter and it combines with calcium in our bodies to produce calcium oxalates which clog up our kidneys. I won't do that again.

I eat prickly pear fruit from cactus in my yard but I haven't tried prickly pear pads yet. I understand if you cook the pads they are safe to eat.

I will pass on any exotic milk. Cow or goat milk is good enough for me. By the way, goat milk soap is popular in some stores here.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I had hoped that if I managed to tweak you into the conversation, Wayne, we'd end on a sensible note. You hit the right pitch and tone! Good ol' you!
Murph

[robert.]

you can use Oxalic acid to polish marble. It's some pretty nasty stuff.

[webenda]

Cool "Seen in print" from 1946.

Click on image to see big picture.

Image credit: Norfolk Southern Corp

About all the "edits" to this post. It is all Murph's fault. He posted a nice response before I could get the "Click on image" feature working. The man has no couth.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Cool is right! Very nice. Nice of you to post that, especially on a model train forum - lots of details and configurations to reference there.

In fact, I have a client in Kansas who intends having a stand of such silos on his layout. That poster gives me a way to establish a reason for their presence and how to arrange and detail such a facility definitively, including integrating the railroad with the site, not simply having it travel past it.

[webenda]

Thank you Murph.

[J. S. Bach]

Anyway have fun with this one,

No problem:

[webenda]

How did Big Bone Lick State Park, Kentucky get its name?

Named a lick because the area (about 10 acres) is salty and completely barren of timber and greenery. The land containing the lick is worn away to a depth of about three or four feet by countless animal hooves and tongues. Animals coming to lick the salt included bison, both the ancient and the modern variety; primitive horses, giant mammoths and mastodons, the enormous stag-moose, and the ground sloth. Many of the animals died in the lick. American Indians, and later the settlers from the east coast marveled at the “big bones” that lay scattered about the lick. It was only natural that the area became known as Big Bone Lick.

Reference: http://parks.ky.gov/parks/historicsites ... story.aspx

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The voice of reasons. Very nice.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

you can use Oxalic acid to polish marble. It's some pretty nasty stuff.

Never,never, never, never use anything acidic to "polish' marble. All that does is dissolve and erode it. Marble is a carbonate materials. Something as innocuous as oak leaves can pit and corrode it.