Al Carrell: Don't you just hate it when somebody puts a cold glass down on your dining room table and when you lift it up it leaves a blush mark? These are called water spots and they're easy to get rid of. And one of the first things you need to do is to use a mild abrasive. Now we all have something that's a mild abrasive around, and that's toothpaste. Just squeeze a little toothpaste out on the spot, and incidentally, you want to use the kind that's the white toothpaste, not the gel kind, and then take a damp rag and start rubbing. And because it's abrasive it's going to take that spot off. Now sometimes you don't want to rub that long or that hard and if you want to make it a little bit more abrasive, you can sprinkle a little baking soda on there. And that will make it easier to get rid of. And you'll just go ahead and do the same kind of rubbing or, if you want to add salt to it you can do that too, because salt is also abrasive. And one thing, you don't want to ever use a dry abrasive, so if you're going to get something that's a little bit more abrasive, like steel wool or something like that, you want to put some oil on there. And just regular cooking oil will do or you could use furniture polish, anything that will keep it from being dry. Then you can take the steel wool, but be sure you get a "0000" steel wool. That's four zeros and that's very fine, almost like baby hair. You wouldn't want to do all this at one time, you don't need to to get rid of the spot, but if you'll just keep rubbing, the spot's going to be gone. And once the spot is gone you can wipe up all this glop and you're ready for your next party.
Episode 37 1996 - 97 Season
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