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The universal solvent

inhibisol

When Irish Dan and friendly_bandit worked at Disneyland, they got to use lots of interesting chemicals. This was partly because they were janitors, and partly because Disney was always interested in testing out new ideas, and manufacturers loved to send their cleaning supplies there for beta testing, so to speak.

There were all the weird orange colored ones, the ones that didn’t work, the ones that worked great but went away because they were “bad”, etc.

One of them was “Inhibisol”, which came in a small aerosol spray can. This stuff was truly amazing! If there was permanent Sharpie marker graffiti on a bathroom wall, you could spray it on and the ink would just drip on off the tile. Incredible. Of course if you got a whiff of it you’d be on your knees, and after working with it for a while a person really needed to sit down and rest a bit, but hey, it got rid of the Sharpie marks.

Later on Irish Dan worked at an experimental oil refinery in El Monte. This place was full of great toys: huge tanks of pressurized molten tire rubber, acids, caustics, everything that has ever been used to burn things, and big ol’ tanks of toxics. One of these was called “tri”. It was fun, he said, because if you put a glove on and forced your hand down in the drum it would pop your hand back out like it was liquid rubber or something!

Turns out Inhibisol and “tri” were the same thing: 1,1,1-trichloroethane, which is an incredibly dangerous chemical only now used for specialized cleaning of things like rocket engines, or for removing the last little bit of water from glacially pure ethanol, etc. It’s also not so good for the ozone layer.

And that’s how deadly chemicals saved Christmas.

This needs to be everywhere.

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You are in a maze of twisty marketing ploys, all alike

After reading http://www.talkdisney.com/forums/showthread.php?%20t=21764&highlight=Disney%20toys%20technologies via boingboing:

ignatzmous: disney is working on an online multiplayer version of Disneyland
reggiT: $255 a year membership fee.
ignatzmous: watch out for the janitors
reggiT: Level Up to Pin Collector/Trader
ignatzmous: You are carrying; 1 churros and no money
reggiT: You are holding a place in front for the Faggots on Parade.
ignatzmous: You have eaten at the Blue Bayou. You take 9 hit points of damage and die. You wake up on Main Street…
reggiT: It begins to rain. Ponchos’ price goes up to $27.00
ignatzmous: You see an Irishman beating a rat to death on his smoke break. What do you do?
reggiT: Your nephew wants to ride It’s a Small World for the 22nd time and the line is 40 minutes.
ignatzmous: > Kill nephew
ignatzmous: What do you want to kill your nephew with?
reggiT: A: the churros. B: the poncho C: the Irishman

Edit: The Irishman versus rat incident is not an exaggeration.

Your phone’s off the hook, but you’re not.

I’ve grown very sensitive to dishonesty. Every lie in an advertisement, every weaselly H.R. drone or ambitiously prevaricating manager, all of politics, all of TV, is one huge disingenuous rip off. I want to punch anyone who doesn’t speak plainly and honestly.

You aren’t giving us anything for free. We don’t save more when we spend more. War is not peace. Freedom is not slavery. That email is not regarding next week’s meeting. The magic key you mailed out will not open the treasure box at the car dealership. My car does not need an oil change at 3000 miles. The case management cost control nursing agency run by my insurer is not here to help me be healthier. Stop it. Stop putting the seal of quality on shit, stop baiting and switching, stop padding the figures, stop adding on hidden costs, stop it. Shut up, all of you.

Stop lying or shut up.