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menthol

Postby skinem » Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:54 pm

men·thol
Pronunciation: 'men-"thol, -"thOl
Function: noun
Etymology: German, ultimately from Latin mentha mint
1 : a crystalline alcohol C10H20O that occurs especially in mint oils and has the odor and cooling properties of peppermint
2 plural : mentholated cigarettes

Wondered where this came from after hearing a Southern Kulture on the Skids song that says "He smells like a mentholated soda pop"...
Don't know what kind that would be...

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Postby Perry » Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:25 pm

What? You never had Vick's Vapo Cola?
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Postby Bailey » Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:28 pm

What? You never had Vick's Vapo Cola?
that question should read:
What? You never had Vick's Vapo Cola and lived?

mark that-sounds-egregious-indeed Bailey

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Postby skinem » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:47 pm

Vicks Vapo-Cola...Now with MORE menthol! Tastes great AND clears your sinuses!

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Re: menthol

Postby David Myer » Tue Jun 29, 2021 2:41 am

Well I know this is an old thread, but it may be worthy of this addendum.

I came across this beauty today on my local Council's website advising what can be dropped off at the waste collection site:

paints (or paint-related products i.e. Mentholated spirits, paint stripper) - household amount only

Nice to be reminded that Malaprop lives.

But in a swift google, we find: “mentholated spirits” gets 10,500 hits, against 385,000 for “methylated spirits”.

If it scores 2.5% of the total hits, then it is surely widely enough used to have become a true and real use. If not, then what % does constitute truth?

Let's all wash our brushes in mentholated spirits and raise a glass of creme de meths.
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Re: menthol

Postby Slava » Tue Jun 29, 2021 7:00 am

I ran mentholated spirits through another search engine. It automatically corrected it to methylated, but offered the option of looking up just mentholated. It still showed only methylated first. I gather there is a band out there called Mentholated Spirits, but that's it.

A couple of the other hits showed metholated, too. Which makes me question their validity as sources for whatever information they are pushing.

Personally, I'd say Gargle is off the mark on this one.

PS: methylated spirits are also called denatured. Does that mean they've been spayed? :)
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Re: menthol

Postby David Myer » Wed Jun 30, 2021 7:27 am

They may have been spayed, but they are still pretty potent.


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