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

[Andrew Vida]

Mike Spencer wrote:
> 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.

Stupid kid tricks.  There was a fairly good reason adults used to keep 
the youngins on rather short leashes.  Seems the filthy hippy crowd
took stupidity to an artform.  Woohoo.

But yeah, nutmeg can bring serious problems in excess amounts.

Woohoo^2