Absinthe: Yay or Nay?

[Fissile]

So is absinthe really an insanity drink or just over-hyped nonsense intended to separate rubes from their shekels? I tried some and the only thing I can say about it was that it tasted like liquorice. I did not note any effects not attributed to the alcohol content.

[Hodge Backmaker]

I had it before it was legalized. Nothing special. I have not tried it since the import ban was lifted.

[Thomas Angel]

Like laudanum I vote yay. Make it all legal. Nature will sort it all out.

[Spartacus]

In my experience Absinthe appeared to be no more than a particularly strong and expensive spirit, without any exceptional effects. However, the only bottle that I ever drank with any real consideration marked itself as 15mg/Kg thujone, which I think is relatively weak.

[Fissile]

Like laudanum I vote yay. Make it all legal. Nature will sort it all out.

You've had laudanum? Every time I visit the local fine wine and spirits merchant, I can never find it. Do they keep it behind the counter?

[JA Whiteman]

You've had laudanum? Every time I visit the local fine wine and spirits merchant, I can never find it. Do they keep it behind the counter?

terpin-hydrate w/codeine chased by slow gin was the big deal when I was 15 back in the 60s. ha ha worked pretty good from what I hear. Never had absinthe (:

[bardamu]

Absinthe is being heavily advertized in California these days. I figure if anything it would just deliver a headache, but that is just a hunch. They sure liked it in Gay Paree back in the day.

[Zed]

Prolonged or excessive use can lead to madness...

Never drank any, I've got a bottle of Pernod behind the bar. Same thing without the thujone

[Hodge Backmaker]

Akvavit is cheaper.

[Thomas Angel]

You've had laudanum? Every time I visit the local fine wine and spirits merchant, I can never find it. Do they keep it behind the counter?
Amsterdam. :stone: It's narcotic, hit you about the same as hydrocodone tablets.

I don't want to give the wrong impression here... God forbid...

[Thomas Angel]

And can I go again? LMAO

[FIPS]

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Rye mixed with turpentine.

Who the fuck is Johnson anymore? A Kane dildo?

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[Hodge Backmaker]

Johnson is now a sockpuppet at Kane's Phora knockoff.

[Zed]

Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder

[Thomas Angel]

http://i52.photobucket.com/albums/g1/angeldamaged/absinth.jpg

[Goosey]

I can't speak for anyone else but when i had absinthe I went completely out of character.

I was walking along the road after a particularly unhappy party. I was keying cars when I thought of trying my key in the doors to see if it would open any. I could only find one car like mine and it was in a units car park. Unfortunately, it had some weird keyholes as it was a refurbished car. So I started punching the window. Being a faint, delicate, aristocrat type, I made no progress with this tack.

Then a voice from the above window started talking to me so I was talking back pretending to be casual. Finally I decided to go and as I was walking on to the footpath a car drove into a driveway in my path. To evident plain clothes police stepped out. The voice from the window had been distracting me from fleeing.



The man on my side greeted me and asked to talk with me. I walked directly to him and then just before i was in arms reach I bolted.

I ran across a few streets, and ended up in a flood park by a creek. They were following and calling out to me. So I plunged into the mangroves, dived into the creek and swam across. It is a very polluted and yucky creek.

Anyway after climbing some fences and railways etc I got away. Then I saw a car like my friends car. It just so happened that I had a key to my friends car in my wallet, because I'd been helping fix it recently.

I tried it. The door opened. I sat down, closed the door. I inserted the key into the ignition, turned it, and the car started.

I drove across town to my girlfriends house, left the car nearby and walked in and bragged with much merriment for a good while to her and her sister.

The weird thing is that a few nights later I went to move it for some paranoid reason and the key didn't work in it.

Absinthe is great! and makes me do uncharacteristic things. I must try it again sometime.

Edit:He got so puffed up with conceit that he made up a song as he walked in praise of himself, and sang it at the top of his voice, though there was no one to hear it but him. It was perhaps the most conceited song that any animal ever composed.

`The world has held great Heroes,
As history-books have showed;
But never a name to go down to fame
Compared with that of Toad!

`The clever men at Oxford
Know all that there is to be knowed.
But they none of them know one half as much
As intelligent Mr. Toad!

`The animals sat in the Ark and cried,
Their tears in torrents flowed.
Who was it said, "There's land ahead?"
Encouraging Mr. Toad!

`The army all saluted
As they marched along the road.
Was it the King? Or Kitchener?
No. It was Mr. Toad.

`The Queen and her Ladies-in-waiting
Sat at the window and sewed.
She cried, "Look! who's that handsome man?"
They answered, "Mr. Toad."'

There was a great deal more of the same sort, but too dreadfully conceited to be written down. These are some of the milder verses.

[Wotan]

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