Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Improved Sheep-Wash

Yesterday during a routine academic search for journal articles about the sensitive dependence of coupled carbon cycle climate models to land surface parameter values I came across this patent.

What do you think you get from boiling tobacco, adding chalk and tersulphide of calcium (prepared it in the usual way, whatever that is)? Improved Sheep-wash, thats what. Apparently the wash is not limited to sheep (on no!) the author claims that it is "equally efficacious when applied to cattle and other animals." Get yer tobacco a boilin...

Oh google scholar, how you do entertain me....

3 comments:

G said...

It's all about dragging sheep, you know.

abmatic said...

Didn't that win an Ig Nobel award?

Eva Green said...

What is this all about I didn't understand anybody explains?