Re: [Paddlewise] Ancient Maritime Paint Thinners

Warning all Paddlewisers:  I have it on good authority that the message
below from "Mark H. Hunt" is a ploy by a demented group of far right-handed
antifungalists.  Don't be surprised if it even contains multiple virii
which could cause untold dissension and disarray among us.
	Moral turpitude and the wonderful internet indeed!



At 02:57 PM 1/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
>        What is moral turpitude you ask and why is it suddenly in the 
>Washington headlines? After a brief internet search I am able to answer 
>both of these rhetorical questions. Historically it seems, moral 
>turpitude was used by master varnishers of old to clean out their 
>badger-hair brushes in the days before turpentine. Although there is some 
>debate as to its exact formulation,most agree it contained at least 60% 
>oil cold-pressed from Morel mushrooms, 39.5% oil extracted from the 
>livers of southern wrong whales and 0.5% toad spit. During the decades 
>before it's ultimate demise, there were numerous and widespread protests 
>on the part of the whales and toads (not to mention hairless badgers) The 
>morel mushroom on the other hand remained strangely silent during this 
>dark period. This odd silence on their part is what caused the subject to 
>eventually resurface in Washington. In 1988, a 1.9 million dollar grant 
>from NIH concluded that, although most responsible plant caregivers talk 
>to their plants at least through their formative years, very few people 
>bother to talk to fungi. This reprehensible situation was next studied in 
>1992 by Vice President Al Gore and the Green Commission on Advancement of 
>Fungi. Some of the subjects of this study were quietly transplanted to 
>various out-of-the-way corners of the White House rose garden and it was 
>here later during the same year that much of the good generated by the 
>study was undone when the President's unfortunate discretions with 
>several of these fungi were witnessed by 17 secret service agents and the 
>White House gardener (many of whom are still in therapy) but this is 
>another story altogether and I do not want to wander off topic for this 
>list.-  The internet is a wonderful thing!


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