# Can I get or make UN-holy water?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-or-make-un-holy-water/344423>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 14, 2006, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-or-make-un-holy-water/344423 "2006-02-14T06:57:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-or-make-un-holy-water/344423/21 "2006-02-16T03:42:07Z")

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I imagine that if you got the water by melting down a core sample from an old enough glacier, you could get pretty holiness-neutral water.

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**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-or-make-un-holy-water/344423/22 "2006-02-16T05:07:59Z")

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> [@Colophon](#):
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> Okay, so how’d **dtilque** manage to slip his post in their _after_ I wrote that? :dubious:
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> Stupid eyes… :o

Over on Dave Wilton’s [WordOrigins message board](http://p098.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm1), that would be called a mantle, as in “a mantle of invisibility”. I’ll wear it proudly as well as inconspicuously.

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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-get-or-make-un-holy-water/344423/23 "2006-02-16T06:01:24Z")

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What about all the Spanish and Portuguese galleons, and the French, etc., that sank while carrying priests? Who had holy water in their priest kits? Unless Davey Jones kept all that holy water locked away in the proverbial locker, it must have mingled with the ocean water many times over. That must be where Kurt Vonnegut got the concept for _ice nine_ from.

As Frank Zappa jammed, “The Ocean Is the Ultimate Solution.”

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