Vaseline ( /ˈvæsəliːn/ or /væzəliːn/) is a brand of petroleum jelly based products owned by Anglo-Dutch company Unilever. Products include plain petroleum jelly and a selection of skin creams, soaps, lotions, cleansers, deodorants and personal lubricants.
The Vaseline name is considered generic in Portuguese and Spanish speaking countries, where the Unilever products are called Vasenol.
The first known reference to the name Vaseline was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough in his U.S. patent for the process of making petroleum jelly (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. "I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product from petroleum which I have named Vaseline..."
The word is believed to come from German Wasser (water) + Greek έλαιον [elaion] (oil) + scientific-sounded ending -ine.
In 1859, Chesebrough went to the oil fields in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and learned of a residue called "rod wax" that had to be periodically removed from oil rig pumps. The oil workers had been using the substance to heal cuts and burns. Chesebrough took samples of the rod wax back to Brooklyn, extracted the usable petroleum jelly, and began manufacturing the medicinal product he called Vaseline.
Ice cubes are small, roughly cube-shaped pieces of ice, conventionally used to cool beverages. Ice cubes are sometimes preferred over crushed ice because they melt more slowly; they are standard in mixed drinks that call for ice, in which case the drink is said to be "on the rocks."
Ice cubes that are crushed or sheared into irregularly-shaped flakes may add an interesting aesthetic effect to some cocktails. Crushed ice is also used when faster cooling is desired, since the rate of cooling is governed by the number and average radius of the ice particles.
Melting ice cubes sometimes precipitate white flakes, commonly known as "floaties". This is calcium carbonate which is present in many water supplies and is completely harmless.[citation needed]
American physician and humanitarian John Gorrie built a refrigerator in 1844 with the purpose of cooling air. His refrigerator produced ice which he hung from the ceiling in a basin. Gorrie can be considered the creator of ice cubes, but his aim was not to cool drinks: he used the ice to lower the ambient room temperature. During his time, a dominant idea was that bad air quality caused disease. Therefore, in order to help treat sickness, he pushed for the draining of swamps and the cooling of sickrooms.
Tyra Lynn Banks (born December 4, 1973). is an American model, media personality, actress, occasional singer, author and businesswoman. She first became famous as a model, appearing twice on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue and working for Victoria's Secret as one of their original Angels. Banks is the creator and host of the UPN/The CW reality television show America's Next Top Model, co-creator of True Beauty, and host of her own talk show, The Tyra Banks Show.
Tyra Banks was born in Inglewood, California. She is the daughter of Caroline (née London; now London-Johnson), a medical photographer, and Donald Banks, a computer consultant. She has a brother, Devin, who is five years older. In 1980, when Banks was 6 years old, her parents divorced. Banks attended John Burroughs Middle School and graduated in 1991 from Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles. Tyra Banks is one of four African Americans and seven women to have repeatedly ranked among the world's most influential people by Time magazine.
Plot
Five friends are released from prison and do their best to stay out trouble. Trying to mind their own business (and run their Five Star Cleaning Service), they are unfortunately caught up in a war between rival Triad gangs fighting for control of the counterfeit currency market.
Keywords: action-hero, brawl, cleaning, comic-hero, ex-convict, farce, fighting-style, fistfight, forgery, gang
Rookie: Of course you do it; the smart ones talk and the dumb ones act.
Exhaust Pipe: Hold it! No need shooting me for stealing a tire! We citizens are very cooperative with the police, sir!
Vaseline: [does not think Shirley is a pretty girl] Actually, God is very fair. A beautiful lady can never cook. And a lady who can cook is never...::Shirley: [walks in, carrying a tray of food] Hi!
Inspector: CID 07, you are officially off the counterfeit money case. I've already sent an undercover!::CID 07: Sir, do you have any other cases I can take care of?::Inspector: Yes, go to the park and catch litter bugs!
Shirley: You mean you never went out with a girl before?::Teapot: Never asked one to. Paid one to, yeah.::Shirley: What?::Teapot: Oh, nothing. Just joking! [looks away] Whew!
Curly: Then let him give us a ticket! All you cops are only good at handing out traffic tickets. How come you're not good at catching thugs?::CID 07: I was good at catching thugs! Otherwise I wouldn't be here now!
CID 07: [after accidentally stepping on Inspector's turtle] Sir, might as well send me to guard the reservoirs!::Inspector: [enraged] Reservoirs?! BETTER GET YOUR TRAFFIC UNIFORM READY!
One time a thing occurred to me
What's real and what's for sale?
Blew a kiss and tried to take it home
Isn't you, isn't me
Search for things that you can't see
Going blind, out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline
Two times and it has rendered me
Punch drunk and without bail
Think I'd be safer all alone
Flys in the vasoline, we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the time
Isn't you, isn't me
Search for things that you can't see
Going blind, out of reach
Somewhere in the vasoline
You'll see the look and you'll see the lies
You'll eat the lies and you will
Flys in the vasoline, we are
Sometimes it blows my mind
Keep getting stuck here all the time
Isn't you, isn't me
Search for things that you can't see
Going blind, out of reach
When you're stuck like glue, Vaseline
When you need some goo
When you're stuck like glue, Vaseline
When you're black and blue, Vaseline
La La La La La La La La La La
When you're stuck like glue
Give me some
When you're stuck like glue
If you'd like to woo, Vaseline
La La La La La La La La La La
If it's hot like you,
Give me some
Do you need a clue,
You got to drink champagne - to dive right in
they're gonna throw their arms around you
So do cocaine - to get right in
they're gonna drown you now that they've found you
Just try to exhale - and honestly – would you trust me?
Just try not to fail - oh yeah
Honestly - you gotta be – pretty real - and really
pretty
And a bit serious inside – but entertaining for denial
So please show me – a way to make it ...
So please show me – a way to make it ...
So please show me – a way to make it ...
Work – cause I don't see a way right now
You got to wipe the vomit off your dress
and by the way your nose is bleeding
I didn't mean to cause a mess
ripping off the hand that's feeding
Just try to exhale - and honestly – would you trust me?
Just try not to fail - oh yeah
Honestly - you gotta be – pretty real - and really
pretty
And a bit serious inside – but entertaining for denial
Hey – you got to pay for every kiss (it's better not to
be great)
Hey – love is expensive nowadays (it's better not to be
great)
Hey – you gotta be just laid back (it's better not to
be great)
Hey-hey – for you nothing's for free (it's better not
to be)
Honestly - you gotta be – pretty real - and really
pretty