JohnRich 4 #1 April 23, 2004 This is a photo I took on a hiking trip in west Texas recently. The funny-looking plant on the left is called candelilla, and it is very common out here in the desert. The name means "little candle", which makes me wonder; if you light it with a match, does it burn like a candle? I'll have to try that the next time I'm out there... It has commercial value, because when you boil it in water, some kind of wax rises to the top, and is skimmed off and harvested. It's used in many commercial products and processes, including... chap stick! The Mexicans set up "candelilla camps", where they harvest the plants, boil them and save the wax. Once all the plants are gone in an area, they pack up their camp, move to another site, and start all over again. So this is where chap stick comes from! After using the product for decades, now I know. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viking 0 #2 April 23, 2004 ya and Carmex is still betterI swear you must have footprints on the back of your helmet - chicagoskydiver My God has a bigger dick than your god -George Carlin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 4 #3 April 23, 2004 It's where candle wax comes from. Why do you think they call it "little candle"? Sparky Kitty Hawk #69My idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Laurel 0 #4 April 23, 2004 Well, aren't you the little fact-finder. Very interesting. My lips thank those little plants very much...................................................................... PMS#28, Pelogrande Rodriguez#1074 My Pink M Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #5 April 24, 2004 QuoteWell, aren't you the little fact-finder. Very interesting. My lips thank those little plants very much. I'm more like a *big* fact finder. And that doesn't refer to the size of the facts... I'm glad you enjoyed it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #6 April 24, 2004 Okay...here's one for ya! Why do they 'actually' give you a lime with a beer in old Mexico? No...it's not to make it taste better, well not exactly anyway... What you are supposed to do is take the lime wedge and run it around the rim of the glass... the 'semi-acidic ' lime juice keeps flies from landing on the glass! So the next time you see some yuppie jam a lime into a BOTTLE of Corona... Ask them "Wuffo you do that?" ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jumpervint 0 #7 April 24, 2004 Chap Stick plays a role in my favorite joke. This duck walks into a pharmacy and walks up to the pharmacist. He tells the pharmacist, "Give me some Chap Stick, and put it on my bill." Vint. . . . . "Make it hard again." Doc Ed “A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free” Nikos Kazantzakis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AggieDave 6 #8 April 24, 2004 QuoteSo the next time you see some yuppie jam a lime into a BOTTLE of Corona... Hit them with your Shiner Bock bottle?--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #9 April 24, 2004 QuoteHit them with your Shiner Bock bottle? *** Somehow Dave... I just KNEW you'd have a Shiner comment to put in there! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest #10 April 24, 2004 And all this time I thought it was dinosaur guts... mh ."The mouse does not know life until it is in the mouth of the cat." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #11 April 24, 2004 QuoteThis duck walks into a pharmacy and walks up to the pharmacist. He tells the pharmacist, "Give me some Chap Stick, and put it on my bill." *** ...AND How do ya sell a duck to a blind man?!?!? ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #12 April 25, 2004 QuoteWhat you are supposed to do is take the lime wedge and run it around the rim of the glass... the 'semi-acidic ' lime juice keeps flies from landing on the glass! Thanks for that tip. It may come in handy some day while "roughing it", drinking beer in the boonies! Oh, wait; if there are beer and limes available, can that really be called "roughing it"? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
airtwardo 7 #13 April 26, 2004 In some parts of "Old Mex" That's about ALL there is available! Pacifico not Corrona thought.. (and 'free-range' pigeons..er chickens) I took a motorcycle trip to Mexico City once....VERY roughing it! ~ If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn? ~ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #14 April 26, 2004 While I'm talking about desert plants, I might as well throw this out here. Big Bend National Park, in south-west Texas, has had 20 inches of rain already this year, which is more than the normal annual rainfall. So everything was really in bloom, and absolutely beautiful. Attached first is a prickly pear cactus in bloom. The second photo is another cactus flower. Who would have thought that something so ugly, could blossom so pretty? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MochaSkyChick 0 #15 April 26, 2004 Quoteya and Carmex is still better Carmex has nothing on Burt's Bees Wax PMS #62 Zarza R[red Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
QuickDraw 0 #16 April 26, 2004 ...and remember... chapsticks aren't just for lips. -- Hope you don't die. -- I'm fucking winning Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
