Re: Peanut butter and sticky stuff

["Mark Leuck" <m..leuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can't see getting humped to death from blue jays and chipmunks can you?

"Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> So will the blue jays, chipmunks and dem dam potatoes.
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> "Mike Sokoly" <secure15@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> | Out here in wild Long Island the deer will lick or hump you to death
> | over a gob of PB - 'cause the elitists won't hear of exterminating them!
> | (squirrels will just eat your soffits and fascia boards for dinner!)
> | Of course-wood is preferable over vinyl.
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> | Crash Gordon wrote:
> | > But what do you do about the squirrels following you around?
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> | > "Charles Booth" <chasbo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> | > news:d6itt15c9aljmk504uvfe1sc0pip2rr7gl@xxxxxxxxxx
> | > | The message re vinyl windows and sticky tape removal remined me of a
> | > | trick I learned at my garden club many years ago.
> | > |
> | > | One of the club members was demonstrating her craft: making
Christmas
> | > | wreaths with wire and pine branches, adorned with red boughs, etc.
> | > |
> | > | At the end of her demonstration her hands were covered with spots of
> | > | sticky pine pitch.  We then saw her open up a bottle of peanut
butter
> | > | and apply several teaspoons of it to her hands.  She began the usual
> | > | rubbing we all do when washing our hands, and a few moments later
> | > | after wiping her hands with a paper towel, her hands were free of
the
> | > | pitch!
> | > |
> | > | I have used peanut butter many times to clean my hands of sticky
stuff
> | > | that I previously removed with laquer thinner, a solvent I used for
> | > | cleaning my foil brushes. Not the best stuff for human skin.
> | > |
> | > | To remove  paper labels with a sticky back, I will use hot water to
> | > | turn the paper into mush, remove the mush, and then apply a small
> | > | amount of peanut butter to the sticky stuff, and, with a circular
> | > | motion with cloth or plastic dish washing pad, I work the peanut
> | > | butter into the sticky stuff, and its soon gone..
> | > |
> | > | If you find sticky stuff on something, and you know that strong
> | > | solvents, mineral spirits, etc., may mar the surface of that
> | > | something, try peanut butter.  It's the oil in the pb that does the
> | > | trick.  Especially good for motor oil/grease that gets on your
> | > | fingernails, cuticles, etc.
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