And you wonder why I feel the need to write short stories in my
replies instead of one liners?
Some years back I watched a Ken Burns documentary where they
portrayed what life was like back in the early oil fields.
So that's where I got the term from and ever since then I've
refered to Petroleum jelly as Rod Wax. But just to satisfy all
the doubting minds, and in the interest of explicitness this should cover all the bases:
http://www.damninteresting.com/story-of-vaseline/ Denny G
