So are you saying you object to anything that does not smell of moth balls and was already predigested by academic types so one merely regurgitates second and third or more hand takes on dry toast material?
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Then Wheezer and the other kids have Stymie sample a potato, Peet Bros soap, shoe polish ( ? ), gasoline, moth balls, glue, Limburger cheese and finally fish-meal fertilizer, to which Stymie says " yep, that's it ."
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Three more air balls later, the Lakers were in moth balls, Malone's Utah Jazz had taken the series, four games to one, to advance to the Western Conference finals and half of the Los Angeles locker room was dividing up blame.
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More precisely, the scientists discovered that termites produce naphthalene, an aromatic hydrocarbon that is the major component of moth balls . ( Apparently the termites use the chemical for much the same reason humans do : as a defense against bugs .)