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["Jerry W. Shepperd" <shepperd AT austincc.edu>]

Soldiers in Iraq use pantyhose to keep sand out of the barrels and 
firing mechanisms of rifles, a practice that was started in Desert 
Storm.  It is also rumored that some soldiers wear pantyhose as 
protection against sand fleas.

Jerry Shepperd


At 05:28 PM 7/13/2006, you wrote:


> Lisa K.V. Perry wrote:
>
> > I've seen them used (by men, yet) for all kinds of things,
> >
> >
> > My Indiana grandma's all used sections of pantyhose to hold soap and
> > tied it in a loop to hang on the tub faucet handles.
> >
>
> Speaking of soap, you can use panty hose to 'polish' fresh soap if you
> make it yourself, and I have used it to polish away the mold lines of
> homemade candles, too.
> You can use them to tie up tomatoes and other plants, for staking trees,
> etc.  You can fill them with onions or other bulbs to hang for winter
> storage.  I've also used them on the top of sprouting jars...lol..I
> think the most unusual thing I have ever done with panty hose was to use
> them in place of vet wrap to apply pressure to a goat's head where he
> had been dehorned after a botched disbud left a wicked ugly scur.  We
> got home from the vet, and the wound opened up with an nasty arterial
> spurting bleed.  I grabbed a Kotex out of the first aid kit and some
> panty hose out of the greenhouse and made it work.  Poor Stormy...what a
> sight he was!
>
> Bev
> --
> erthnsky AT bellsouth.net  BevanRon of EarthNSky Farm      NW Georgia USDA Zone 7
> 34.498N 85.076W
>
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Jerry W. Shepperd, Ph. D.
Professor and Chair, Behavioral Sciences Department
Austin Community College
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