Q-tips only compact the wax like gunpowder in a cannon.

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The human memory is like a wax block.

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Upping the speed at which the wax was pulled apart produced a ridge like the fast-spreading (18cm a year) East-Pacific Rise.

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But Eli's selling more kind of random bric-a-brac, like corncobs and candle wax.

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More than 80 red wax seals hang down like an exotic beaded curtain from the bottom of a 1530 petition from English parliamentarians to Pope Clement VII.

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