At 04:33 6/7/2000, Marshall Ruskin wrote:
> >Why can't they make auto paint out of the same things they make bugs from?
>
>They do, as a matter of fact. That's what laccur (sp?) is made from. Or used
>to be.

Little ganglial twist there, Marshall -- lacquer (used to) come from the
lacquer tree, now is dissolved guncotton or similar.  Shellac is made from
an exudate of the lac bug which they leave on trees...

:)
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>Marshall Ruskin
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