[TheForge] Re: The hard cider is good... OT:

[Mike Spencer]

Jerry> You ARE aware nutmeg is a hallucinogenic if taken in sufficient
Jerry> quantity; yes? About 1 to 1 1/2 TBSP ground is usually enough
Jerry> to make for funny brain inputs.

Andy> Oh yes, well aware.  2 whole nutmegs is enough to kill most
Andy> adults, in fact.  But they taste wonderful.

Well, even further off topic: Mid-60s, I was hanging out in the UMass
student union [1] and at the next table the (very weird) son of the
president of a prestigious seminary was advising the stoner son of
the president of a prestigious Ivy Leage college on how to get
wrecked on nutmeg. They dumped a whole can -- you know, the kitchen
spice shelf kinda thing -- into a milkshake and when I went off to do
something else, the stoner was sucking it down and making faces.

A couple of hours later, I was leaving the building.  The SotPoaPILC
was sitting on a park bench in the dark, rocking back and forth
going, "Ohhhhhhh...I'm sooooo sick.  Arrrgggghh...I'm sooooo sick"
while the older SotPoaPS paced anxiously around, trying to console
him.

I guess people's ideas of fun differ considerably.

- Mike

[1] Yes, that's the building where, on the second floor, the men's
    room is (er, was then) marked "Braves", the women's room marked
    "Squaws" and, between them a meeting room (ostensibly named for a
    Massachusetts county), marked "Middlesex".

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Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~. 
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