On 5/27/2015 12:36 PM, John Firth wrote:
...Stupid remark; there are no benign solvents except perhaps water!

Which reminds me of the old West Virginia joke...

A scientist gallops out the government lab in the W.Va. boonies leaping with
exuberant joy, hollering, "Eureka! I've just invented the perfect solvent!!!
I'll be rich! I'll be famous..." etc.

Passing by some hayseed in a rocking chair on a porch, the need to inhale
silenced him for a moment, at which point the hayseed asks, "What're you
planning on carrying it in?"