It 's a great thing for us readers that what goes on in Roseholme is generally much fun, more like Ungar & Madison and thankfully far, far from Caulfield & Stradlater.
Everyone needs a good brain massage in the morning, and some come here to get at least part of it.
Back in basic, in the mid seventies, we had to use the atropine autoinjectors. The drill sergeant demonstrated one by stabbing a piece of cardboard, the needle popped through and the fluid shot at least a yard.
Dead silence from the platoon.
Then I asked (I was either fearless or self destructive then) "Drill Sergeant, just how bad is this nerve agent stuff, anyway?"
Now, if we could just get that stuff into the cappuccino machines at NPR and it's affiliates.
ReplyDeleteAnd, of course, into the coffee machines at the rest of the media drone hives.
It 's a great thing for us readers that what goes on in Roseholme is generally much fun, more like Ungar & Madison and thankfully far, far from Caulfield & Stradlater.
ReplyDeleteEveryone needs a good brain massage in the morning, and some come here to get at least part of it.
Ah, a touch of mydriasis from the belladonna alkaloids- a ancient Italian beauty tip.
ReplyDeletenow you just need some two pam cloride!!
ReplyDeleteBack in basic, in the mid seventies, we had to use the atropine autoinjectors. The drill sergeant demonstrated one by stabbing a piece of cardboard, the needle popped through and the fluid shot at least a yard.
ReplyDeleteDead silence from the platoon.
Then I asked (I was either fearless or self destructive then) "Drill Sergeant, just how bad is this nerve agent stuff, anyway?"
Atropine Tartrate.
ReplyDeleteYea ... it will save you from nerve gas, but leave you permanently anemic.
Beats the hell out of dying because all your muscles just decided this would be a good time to break all of your large bones at once.
Scopolamine? That's some pretty serious dizziness. Unless your health coverage offers "apothecary"...
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Natural Herbal Remedy solution: have a jimsonweed salad.
ReplyDeleteOr, don't, because modern processed pharmaceuticals are a good upgrade, dammit.
That was part of Charlie Manson's brew ... Jimsonweed, marijuana, and LSD, all at once.
ReplyDeleteThat and 8 hours of sex while having them chant that he was God had all of his converts ( including one guy ) nicely reprogrammed.