How to scratch that itch
In light of my First Person piece Tuesday about my near fatal attraction to poison ivy (or is it the other way around?) I've received many helpful suggestions for remedies from readers, among them:
1. Prescription pills called hydroxyzine.
2. Bathing immediately after suspected contact with Octagon soap. (Don't stay in the shower too long, the caller added. This soap contains lye.)
3. Shuttle Lotion, from a company called American Hygienic Laboratories. (You can't get it around here. I'd have to order it by phone or on the Internet.)
4. Tecnu Extreme Poison Ivy Scrub, which one of my co-workers, Andy Leeco swears by. (Of course, I take any advice from Andy with some degree of caution; he's a New England Patriots fan.)
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Stay out of it. Works every time.
It does not break out on me. It eats my son up.
I think he has tried everything, he loves to hunt and fish, so he has it a lot.
Posted on June 25, 2008 7:25 PM
Hi Mr. Johnson,
This has nothing to do with your thread, but I have a question and subsequent request please.
Today the letter to the editor "World can’t sustain its huge appetite for beef" was published. We in the LTE blog have spotted out form letters numerous times, the majority from "authors" who promote vegetarianism. This is yet another example.
All I had to do was a simple Google search for "Beef production accounts for more greenhouse gas emissions than automobiles" and up came the following hits:
http://www.expressmilwaukee.com/article-2520-earlier-this-week-more-than-a-hundred-thousand-so.html
http://www.topix.com/forum/world/asia/TM56S3RFN3UGDUV6R#comments
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/beaconnews/news/opinions/letters/1008744,2_4_AU17_LETTERS_S1.article
http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2008/06/13/the_princeton_packet/your_views/doc4852c83b79d80654552981.txt
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/weekly/story.php?story_id=8850
Scroll down on the one above.
Question: Why can't the N&R perform a simple search of key words on most if not all letters as I did and other bloggers have done previously?
Request: As 1) historically the vast majority of form letters published in the N&R have espoused vegetarianism and 2) we have pointed this out several times before, then 3) why can the N&R at a minimum search letters regarding this topic?
These letters are so easy to spot. As soon as I read the first three sentences my mind told me; form letter. A simple search confirmed this.
Please try to keep your valuable LTE section free of letters from individuals who espouse a cause without using their own creativity.
Posted on June 25, 2008 8:48 PM
The best defenses against poison ivy are moral fibre and pure thoughts.
Posted on June 25, 2008 10:42 PM
Poison plants, I am told that you should take cool showers, twice a day and do not rub with a towel. Blot yourself dry. Then apply a anti itch jell. Hope this may help you.
Anonymous, I been screaming about these Internet letters for years. I traveled a lot before gas got so high, buying local newspapers, I have seen the same letter, word for word many times. In NC all bash conservatives and many begin with I wrote Burr are Dole and never got a reply. Strange no one in NC writes to a liberal.
Posted on June 26, 2008 7:19 AM