Ambergris

[Dechristo]

You, too, can make millions in leviathan excrement sputum.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11015985

[archenemy]

I was okay until the last paragraph. People used to eat that stuff. Gross.

[cj001f]

People used to eat that stuff. Gross.

Better than fermented cod skeleton.

[Cobra_Commander]

that's been rebranded as mountain dew code red

[catbirdseat]

Ambergris is essentially cholesterol, or closely related to it. There are synthetic or semi-synthetic alternatives now for perfume fixatives. I always wondered what they meant by the term "fixative", so I looked it up. Perfumes are mixtures of compounds, some volatile and others less volatile. Fixatives are waxy or oily substances that dissolve the more volatile components and prevent them from evaporating too rapidly from the skin. Without fixative your expensive perfume would only last minutes.

[Dechristo]

There are synthetic or semi-synthetic alternatives now for perfume fixatives.

 

but, you wouldn't get the effect of male arousal and female jealousy without the subliminal olfactory detection of fish guts.

[catbirdseat]

You have a very good point there.

[Dechristo]

I usually where a hat.

[catbirdseat]

I usually where a hat.

Ware do you where it?

[Dechristo]

when looking for a dictionary

[fern]

Another "natural" fixative used for cosmetics is the waxy scum that rises to the top of aeration ponds in sewage treatment plants. Think about that next time you are putting on your lipstick (or kissing your lipsticked girl/boyfriend)

[DirtyHarry]

That's just gross. I'm not allowing my boyfriend to wear lipstick anymore.

[Dechristo]

except on his anus

[DirtyHarry]

That's different.

[Cobra_Commander]

well-in dechristo

[catbirdseat]

Another "natural" fixative used for cosmetics is the waxy scum that rises to the top of aeration ponds in sewage treatment plants. Think about that next time you are putting on your lipstick (or kissing your lipsticked girl/boyfriend)

That is pretty damn gross. Gross enough to gross me out. Where did you find that little factoid? It is very Dru-like.

[Dr_Flash_Amazing]

Where did you find that little factoid? It is very Dru-like.

 

Dru relies on the fixatives in cosmetics to keep the lipstick on his sexy squid hand-puppets. Rrrroowwwrrrr!

[fern]

Where did you find that little factoid?

 

On a tour of a sewage treatment plant - d'uh!

 

It is very Dru-like.

 

I am he and he is we and we are all one

[Dechristo]

quoting Lennon?

[catbirdseat]

Where did you find that little factoid?

 

On a tour of a sewage treatment plant - d'uh!

I'll bet there are queues around the block for that tour!

[Dechristo]

She got the "tour" after an unfortunate flushing accident.

[Dru]

When I once worked for a fast food multinational, the grease we skimmed off the grill and from the chip vats would go into 50 gallon drums which were then sent off to cosmetics companies. Short path from McDonalds to lipstick

 

BTW isn't ambergris mostly formed around giant squid beaks in the whale stomach? they are too big to shit out so the whale has to regurgiate them.

[Cobra_Commander]

If some travel agent booked me for the "treatment plant package", well, I'd sewer.

[Dechristo]

she thought you didn't know your shit and was preparing you to be a conno-sewer.

[ScottP]

BTW isn't ambergris mostly formed around giant squid beaks in the whale stomach? they are too big to shit out so the whale has to regurgiate them.

 

Ambergris