| rdfs:comment | - It may be interesting to prepare your own shoe polish in a while. This Do It Yourself exercise is pretty interesting!
- A shoe polish was a substance used to make shoes look new again. In 2376, Chakotay recalled purchasing a tripolymer enzyme from Bathar of Hodos that was said to stop the aging process. Despite not doing what the merchant claimed it would, in the Commander's opinion, it made a great shoe polish. (VOY: "Memorial")
- Shoe polish (or boot polish to limeys), is a consumer product used for the application of blackface in the hilarious, uncontroversial and universally beloved art form of the minstrel show. It is also occasionally known to be used to polish shoes, although the word “polish” actually derives from the product’s West Slavic origin.
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| abstract | - It may be interesting to prepare your own shoe polish in a while. This Do It Yourself exercise is pretty interesting!
- Shoe polish (or boot polish to limeys), is a consumer product used for the application of blackface in the hilarious, uncontroversial and universally beloved art form of the minstrel show. It is also occasionally known to be used to polish shoes, although the word “polish” actually derives from the product’s West Slavic origin. Various substances have been used as shoe polish over the years, including turpentine, gum arabic, gum cyrillic, gum latin, boiling hot tar, chimney soot, charcoal bricks, and black tar heroin. However, in modern times shoe polish comes from a naturally occurring black wax that is mined by Kiwi slave labor.
- A shoe polish was a substance used to make shoes look new again. In 2376, Chakotay recalled purchasing a tripolymer enzyme from Bathar of Hodos that was said to stop the aging process. Despite not doing what the merchant claimed it would, in the Commander's opinion, it made a great shoe polish. (VOY: "Memorial")
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