I was once told that benjamin franklin used to try to impress his lady acquaintances by putting oil on the bottom of his cane and gently touching it to the surface of water, smoothing out the ripples
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wait is that how you smooth out the ripples??? i saw a pool at a hotel once that was perfectly still and it was just marvelous, it didn't even look like water, it looked like jello and i didn't even understand what i was looking at at first
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en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_oil
a favorite bit of nautical trivia w/ metaphorical potential
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Was hard to find videos of this. Most were about oil paintings of water or oil rigs in storms.
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