# White powder found in letter in McCain office...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-powder-found-in-letter-in-mccain-office/460861>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-powder-found-in-letter-in-mccain-office/460861 "2008-08-21T22:24:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-powder-found-in-letter-in-mccain-office/460861/41 "2008-08-22T21:00:17Z")

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]  
How exactly do you get semen into powdered form?  
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One more time: it wasn’t a powder. Those initial reports were inaccurate.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-powder-found-in-letter-in-mccain-office/460861/42 "2008-08-22T21:00:42Z")

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[QUOTE=Argent Towers]  
How exactly do you get semen into powdered form?

There’s got to be some joke here about McCain being so old that is semen is powder instead of liquid, but I’m not feeling it.  
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I tired making that joke in post 19. Aparently it didn’t go over.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-powder-found-in-letter-in-mccain-office/460861/43 "2008-08-22T21:08:01Z")

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[QUOTE=Happy Lendervedder]  
Aparently it didn’t go over.  
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-About as well as a pan-fried semen product with the words “reconstituted from powder” on the label. 😉

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**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-powder-found-in-letter-in-mccain-office/460861/44 "2008-08-22T21:15:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]  
They’re now saying it wasn’t a powder, just a “substance” that tested positive for protein. The translation is that it was probably semen. The “white powder” thing was just typical media inaccuracy and sensationalism.  
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How…quaint.

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