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Enthusiast

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16. That is horrible.

Reply to G_j (Reply #6)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 04:35 PM

Nov 2013

I don't believe mineral oil was in wide use at that time. I believe they called it "pitch". If it didn't seep out of the ground as in the Beverly Hillbillies there wasn't any available. That's why human beings killed whales for hundreds of years. But righties will believe anything.

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