Subject: Re: What is Hippo Oil???

From: Michael Brush <[email-masked]>
Date: 13 Feb 1997 19:32:31 GMT

Daniel Morris DeRight <[email-masked]> writes: > 
> 
> Excerpts from netnews.rec.woodworking: 11-Feb-97 Re: What is Hippo
> Oil??? by [email-masked] 
> > John Levin wrote:
> > > 
> > > In article <[email-masked]>,
> [email-masked] says...
> > 
> > > 
> > > > Hippo oil is some what similar to its asian ancestor "LIPPO" oil
> > > >which is used in many countries ,including the US to grease the palms
> > > >[another wood ] of politicians .
> > > 
> > > Entirely incorrect. Hippo oil is what you use to stop hippos from
> squeaking.
> > 
> > Not true, It's a hand rubbing oil used at health spases(fat farms).
> 
>     C'mon guys, someone has to provide a straight answer!
> 
>     Hippo oil is a prized oil that is used for fine wood finishing.  It
> is obtained through a fairly unpleasant, and sometimes illegal process,
> in which the Hippo is supended above a tub of lime jello . . .
> 
> ==========================
> Dan DeRight          [email-masked]
> 
> Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom.  It is
> the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.    -William Pitt 

Can't believe the level of misinformation in the above responses (although 
the person that suggested it's used in health spas is closer than he may
realize).  Hippo oil (--from Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons in Greek 
mythology) was used by the Greeks for bathing (you know, rub it on and 
scrape it off). A carpenter noticed that it left a nice finish on the 
wooden benches used by the bathers (also, unfortunately, on the bathers)
and the rest is history. 

Mike

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From: catjam <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 15:07:57 -0600

I'm asking help from this group.  We're building a home and want to
use a natural tung oil finish on our oak floors.  Have you had any
experience with this finish?  Who makes the best?  Is it better to
have 100% tung oil, or is tung plus a solvent okay?

Any advice will be appreciated.

Jean

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From: "Alyn W. Ashworth" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:33:33 +0000

Hippo Oil, as any fule no, is an anagram of

                        Oo - Philip

....which is of course what H.M. the Queen says when the Duke of
Edinburgh rubs her down with it.
-- 
Alyn W. Ashworth
Liverpool, England

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From: [email-masked] (David Galley)
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:29:29 GMT

Mike,
Thank you for the only intelligent post, to-date, on my original
question regarding Hippo-Oil.
To the rest of the people that responded thank you for the quantity.

David Galley
'Tis best to have people think you are a fool than to open your mouth
and remove all doubt.' ---Mark Twain---