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[[File:Pusser's Naval Strength Body Wash.jpg|thumb|Earliest known poster for '''Pusser's Naval Strength Body Wash'''.]][[File:Pusser's_Blue_Label_Rum.jpg|thumb|Pusser's Blue Label Rum.]]'''Naval Strength Body Wash''' is an alleged ration of high-proof aged rum secretly provided to certain "in the know" personnel in the Royal Navy for use as a body wash.

== History ==

First reported by [[this author]] on the [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/soap-promises-to-make-you-smell-like-naval-supremacy/170961/30 Boing Boing bulletin board]

== For King and Hygiene ==

"For King and Hygiene" is said [by whom?] to be the ''[[Sub rosa (nonfiction)|sub rosa]]'' motto of the so-called Body Washers (officers who covertly use the special rum ration as a body wash).

== In popular culture ==

The cult film [[Invasion of the Body-Washers]] is loosely based on stories about Naval Strength Body Wash.

== Association with scrimshaw abuse ==

Some evidence has emerged [citation needed] that Naval Strength Body Wash usage is a trigger for [[scrimshaw abuse]] episodes.

== Commentary ==

=== Rum, sodomy and lash scented candle ===

User dabeyc writes:

<blockquote>
... do not want my soap to smell like jesus. or anyone in particular.
but i had a rum, sodomy and lash scented candle once that i bought in the mall and it wasn’t terrible.
</blockquote>

* [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/soap-promises-to-make-you-smell-like-naval-supremacy/170961/33 Comment] @ Boing Boing

== Hashtags ==

* <nowiki>#BeverageOrSolvent</nowiki>

== In the News ==

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File:Tums, Cutty Sark, and the lash.jpg|link=Tums, Cutty Sark, and the lash|"'''[[Tums, Cutty Sark, and the lash]]'''" is a phrase widely but erroneously attributed to Sir Winston Churchill.

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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Beverage or Solvent?]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]
* [[Invasion of the Body-Washers]]
* [[Scrimshaw abuse]]
* [[Tums, Cutty Sark, and the lash]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

== External links ==

* [https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/how-pussers-rum-became-the-official-drink-of-the-british-royal-navy/articleshow/66196337.cms How Pusser’s rum became the official drink of the British Royal Navy] - The drink, which first quenched the thirst of workers and planters, crossed the oceans to reach America and Europe. India times: Last Updated: Oct 14, 2018, 09.25 AM IST
* [https://www.forbes.com/sites/joemicallef/2020/03/21/pusser-and-the-story-of-navy-rum/#43586a948d77 Pusser And The Story Of Navy Rum] by [[Joseph V. Micallef (nonfiction)|Joseph V. Micallef]] @ Forbes (Mar 21, 2020,10:17am EDT)

=== Social media ===

* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1573365402021031936 Post] @ Twitter ()


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