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userbinator ◴[] No.43109607[source]
...and so do perfumes, most likely.
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MrMcCall ◴[] No.43110511[source]
And methanol is not good for anyone, in any measure.

I'm pretty sure that's why, 100 years ago, there were so many blues folks with names like "Blind Lemon Jefferson" -- they had drunk bad hooch that got too much methanol instead of ethanol. Blindness is direct side effect of methanol poisoning.

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InitialLastName ◴[] No.43110812[source]
> I'm pretty sure that's why, 100 years ago, there were so many blues folks with names like "Blind Lemon Jefferson"

Also because in a predominantly agricultural society, music was one of very few self-sustaining pursuits for a blind (or otherwise unsuited to farm work) person. Looking through the 'blind' names in [0] most were either born blind or had an alternate explanation (usually accidents) for their blindness.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_of_blues_mus...

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1. MrMcCall ◴[] No.43112531[source]
Thanks!