snake oil gets bad reputation

[GMorg]

I hear the "snake oil" comment frequently. I agree with the spirit of the comments generally. However, the term actually refers to a bonified treatment for inflamation made from actual snakes. Americans began to bottle all sorts of knock-offs and make snake-oil claims that were false. These knock-off products which were not snake oil destroyed the snake oil repution.

http://hdlighthouse.org/see/immune/snakeoil.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil

http://www.innvista.com/HEALTH/nutrition/fats/omega.htm

 

[ctrcbob]

I normally use the term "Mouse Milk" vice Snake Oil.

Bob

01 GoldWing
02 Continental
03 Marauder

 

[GMorg]

Being one of only a handful of people on the planet that has actually milked mice, in fact we even made mouse milk cheese, I am curious as to the origin of that term.

 

[ekpolk]

Yeah, it's a shame; if you stick with the latest, fresh SM snake oils, you should be fine (and quite uninflammed...). I still wonder about Wolf's Head oil, though.

 

[mechtech]

GMorg - Hunger will do strange things to people.

 

[GMorg]

If hunger is your motivation, don't try to satisfy it with mouse milk. You will easily burn more calories getting the stuff than the meal will provide.

 

[Razl]

Enough with the visuals, your killing me

 

[Tree Hugger]

quote:

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Originally posted by GMorg:
If hunger is your motivation, don't try to satisfy it with mouse milk. You will easily burn more calories getting the stuff than the meal will provide.

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So Ethanol as a fuel is "Mouse Milk"...

 

[GMorg]

All that I have to say on that topic is, "switchgrass"...

 

[Gary Allan]

switchgrass

Are you saying change suppliers??

..but GM ...while we're here ...just who do you feed mouse cheese to? Now I've seen "Kitty milk" that my daughter fed infant cats with a bottle(visions of Dune where the Mentat was forced to milk a cat with a rat attached to it to counter the effects of permanent poisons introduced into him by the Harkkonens

)

 

[GMorg]

Gary Allan,

I have not fed the cheese to anyone. I use to study how genes function in mammary tissue. Since mice are the standard mammal model, those studies involved milking mice. In addition, we made some modifications to the milk and had to determine if you could still make cheese after such modifications.

 

[Gary Allan]

(visions of Spock)

Fasinating

 

[Shannow]

With winter coming on, I've thought about making some bone oil to see if it will help the toe that I broke a few years ago.