Cocaine Is a Hell of a Drug...

"COCAINE IS A HELL OF A DRUG" stated by the famous late great Rick "Superfreak" James!!!  



But here is to great times past - before the FDA was created... Thanks sis for finding this golden nugget of GREAT information and a great topic...



They FDA should re-consider some of the Greats from the past.

*Medications of Times Past*

Have you ever wondered why our great-grandparents all had such fond memories of their youth?  Well, I'm very surprised they remembered anything at all!  

Forget Tums & Tylenol.  Forget Aleeve or Benadryl. 

Look at the stuff they had way back then!

Bayer’s ‘Heroin’

A bottle of Bayer’s ‘Heroin’.

Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine.

It was also used to treat children suffering with a strong cough.

Coca Wine, anyone?

Metcalf's Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market. Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal  treatment. Which a variation of this type of Coca Wine - more Coca - Bourduex Wine is still around today. You might know it by today's name - Coca~Cola!

Mariani Wine.

Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous of the Coca wine of it's time.

Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time.

He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vatican gold medal.

Vatican tested, Vatican Approved!

Maltine.

Produced by the Maltine Manufacturing Company of New York . 

It was suggested that you, a full grown adult should take a full glass with or after every meal. Children should only take half a glass. Those are some great tips, no wonder our grand parents fell asleep around 8 pm and early bird specials are around 4:30 pm.

A Paperweight:

A paperweight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne (Mannheim, Germany).They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine. Great ad campaign, I am on eBay at the moment looking for one of these gems!

Opium for Asthma:

       At 40% alcohol plus 3 grams of opium per tablet.

It didn't cure you... but you didn't care!

I wonder if you needed to be diagnosed with asthma or could you just say hey, I got asthma? Gimme Gimme bitches!

 

 

Cocaine Tablets (1900)

All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance.

Great to 'smooth' the voice! And what a voice you would have or don't remember having. I wonder if they started smoking this elixir? This is what led to the early greats having golden pipes and drug addictions, causing most to have a short-lived career.

Cocaine drops for toothache.

Very popular for children in 1885.

 Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children very happy! All is well when your kids are doped up. No fighting, no yelling, no screaming, just peace and quiet.

Opium for newborns?

            I'm sure this would make them sleep well.  

(not only the Opium, but also the 46% alcohol) I guess not much waking up in the middle of the night. It is no wonder the dad's could work harder, they got more sleep than us.

     It's no wonder they were called,

"The Good Old Days".

     And it's no wonder why the drug store was such a popular hang out for everyone!

From cradle to grave... everyone was STONED!!!

Another Day Another Dollar!!!

DART Light-Rail Trains.

St. Patrick's Day has come and gone. I do miss the beer, the corn-beef, and the fun associated with that holiday. Well, as for me, another work day at the grind. There was a foul smelling bum-like person on the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) light-rail train today. I think he was on something or just crazy, because he was having a heated argument with himself. Nonetheless it was very interesting and funny to watch.

I do like riding the light-rail because it reminds of BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) back home in the SF Bay Area. There is only a few spots that the DART rail goes into a tube. Most of the tracks are either raised or street level.

In addition, I exit the train at the Union Station stop, just prior it curves around the infamous Book Repository from which Lee Harvey Oswald took his fatal shots. It then traverses around the grassy knoll and over the road way which John F. Kennedy was traveling in his open top limousine.

But I just wanted to share just another day on the DART.

Hope you all have a wonderful day!!!!

interregnum

interregnum

\ in-tuhr-REG-nuhm \  , noun;

plural interregnums  \-nuhmz\ or interregna  \-nuh\

1. The interval between two reigns; any period when a state is left without a ruler.

 

2. A period of freedom from authority or during which government functions are suspended. 

3. Any breach of continuity in an order; a lapse or interval in a continuity.

 

Quotes:

Forewarned by his equations that the Galactic Empire is about to collapse, Seldon hopes to shorten the inevitable interregnum  from a predicted 30,000 years of bloody anarchy to a mere thousand.

-- Gerald Jonas, review of Foundation's Fear , by Gregory Benford, New York Times , April 6, 1997

They were at the moment enjoying a sort of interregnum  from Roman authority.

-- Frederic William Farrar, Life of St. Paul

Architecture Culture presents 74 essays, speeches and magazine articles from the postwar era, a period Ms. Ockman describes as an interregnum  between modernism and post-modernism.

-- Herbert Muschamp, "The Creative Ferment Behind the Glass Boxes", New York Times , June 13, 1993

Origin:

Interregnum  is from the Latin, from inter , "between" + regnum , "dominion, reign, rule," from rex , "king."

 

 

HAPPY St. Patrick's Day

Today is St. Patrick's day! So, Happy St. Patrick's day everyone. Drink the green beer. I am going to have one of my homemade Irish Stout's in celebration of a long Irish tradition. However, not to ruin your green beer, new plastic shamrock hat, or funky shamrock-esque glasses, but the real St. Patrick was not even Irish.


"The modern celebration of St. Patrick's Day really has almost nothing to do with the real man," said Philip Freeman, a classics professor at Luther College in Iowa.

So who was this character behind the March 17 holiday? Or was he a short Norwegian who was once mistaken for a Leprechaun? Or had he been a drunken Irishman's invisible drinking buddy?
Well, here are a few key facts about his life, according to National Geographic :


Though Patrick was born into an aristocratic Christian family that had slaves and a country villa, he professed no interest in Christianity as a young boy. Apostle of Ireland, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbarton, in Scotland, in the year 387; died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland, 17 March, 461. His parents were Calpurnius and Conchessa, who were Romans living in Britian in charge of the colonies.

 At 14, during a raiding party, Patrick was kidnapped. He was sent to Ireland where he tended sheep as a slave for seven years. And I am sure you want to know who would kidnap this kid? Well, Sea faring warriors believed to be the kinsmen of Niall, the most powerful ruler of his time.

That was a major turning point in his young life.

Ireland at this time was a land of Druids and pagans. He learned the language and practices of the people who held him.

During his captivity, he turned to God in prayer. He wrote, "The love of God and his fear grew in me more and more, as did the faith, and my soul was raised, so that, in a single day, I have said as many as a hundred prayers and in the night, nearly the same." "I prayed in the woods and on the mountain, even before dawn. I felt no hurt from the snow or ice or rain."

Patrick's captivity lasted until he was twenty, when he escaped after having a dream from God in which he was told to leave Ireland by going to the coast. There he found a pirate ship who took him back to Britain, where he reunited with his family.

He had another dream in which the people of Ireland were calling out to him "We beg you, holy youth, to come and walk among us once more." He began his studies for the priesthood. He was ordained by St. Germanus, the Bishop of Auxerre, whom he had studied under for years.


Later, Patrick was ordained a bishop, and was sent to take the Gospel to Ireland. He arrived in Ireland March 25, 433, at Slane. One legend purports that he met a chieftain of one of the tribes, who tried to kill Patrick. Patrick converted Dichu (the chieftain) after he was unable to move his arm until he became friendly to Patrick. He began preaching the Gospel throughout Ireland, converting many. He and his disciples preached and converted thousands and began building churches all over the country. Kings, their families, and entire kingdoms converted to Christianity when hearing Patrick's message. Patrick by now had many disciples, among them Beningnus, Auxilius, Iserninus, and Fiaac, (all later canonized as well).
  Patrick preached and converted all of Ireland for 40 years. He worked many miracles and wrote of his love for God in Confessions. After years of living in poverty, traveling and enduring much suffering he died March 17, 461. He died at Saul, where he had built the first church.

Why a shamrock? Patrick used the shamrock to explain the Trinity, and has been associated with him and the Irish since that time.
It is a folk tale that Patrick drove the snakes off the “Emerald Isle.” The absence of snakes in Ireland is already mentioned in the third century by the Roman Solinius. Snakes being commonly associated with Satan, sin and evil since the Garden of Eden, this tale may have arisen as a metaphor of his single-handed effort to drive the idol-worshiping Druid cult out of Ireland.


In His Footsteps: Patrick was a humble, pious, gentle man, whose love and total devotion to and trust in God should be a shining example to each of us. He feared nothing, not even death, so complete was his trust in God, and of the importance of his mission.

There was no canonization process in place when Patrick died, that came about in the 12th century. He would have been declared a saint by popular acclamation and his sainthood approved by a local bishop soon after he died in 467. Today only the pope can declare a saint and only after a lengthy canonization process.

History.com reported that the Irish have observed March 17 as a religious holiday for more than 1,000 years. Since the holiday occurs during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon.

In America today, along with parades and green goodies of all kinds, other traditional meals include corned beef and cabbage Irish stew, soda bread, and other meals.

So if your Irish, or Irish for the day, go out enjoy the day as I would! With Green Beer and Corned Beef.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY ALL!!!!

BREAST MILK ICE CREAM "Baby Gaga"

BREAST MILK ICE CREAM  coined "Baby Gaga"     

      Welcome back peeps, I am writing this time with another oddity of around the world. I have been off the grid for a short time. I found this little nugget of a story and thoought to share it with my readers.

Come here for the odd stories....

Breast milk ice cream was back on the menu at a London parlor Wednesday after council officials confirmed it is safe for human consumption.


They stated "BACK" on the menu, I take it was once on the menu and then taken off for testing?

Ok... Onto the full story as I have collected from various sources. Enjoy the crazy read:

    The ice cream, dubbed Baby Gaga by maker Icecreamists, was confiscated by Westminster council and sent for laboratory tests after two members of the public complained that it could contain hepatitis viruses.

Richard Block, of Westminster council, told the London Evening Standard newspaper, "We have now received confirmation from the lab that the product did not contain any harmful bacteria or viruses. Our investigation into the safety of the product is now over."

However, Icecreamists founder Matt O'Connor, 44, said he was considering suing the council over the bad publicity the ban brought the product -- which is made from donated breast milk combined with vanilla pods and lemon zest.

"Breast milk is not dangerous and Westminster council confiscated our product in the full knowledge that we had done all the proper tests," he said."We are considering taking legal action because this has damaged our reputation."  "They should have waited until they got the tests back before saying our product could have been a risk to the public," he added.

The ice cream has caused controversy on both sides of the Atlantic since its launch last month, with US pop star Lady Gaga last week beginning legal proceedings against the makers. The singer described the product as "nausea-inducing" and said it "intended to take advantage of [her] reputation and goodwill." Lady Gaga reportedly asked Icecreamists to change the flavour's name so it could not be linked to her image or name.

But the parlour's founder, Matt O'Connor was outraged at the suggestion he had "ridden on the coattails" of Lady Gaga.

"A global superstar has taken umbrage at what she describes as a 'nausea-inducing' product. This from a woman with a penchant for wearing rotting cows' flesh. At least our customers are still alive when they contribute to our 'art,'" Mr O'Connor said.

"How can she possibly claim ownership of the word 'gaga,' which since the dawn of time has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby's mouth?"

But the US diva's condemnation of the product came after the local Westminster City Council had already confiscated Baby Gaga from the store's shelves over fears it could pose a health risk.

Mr O'Connor denied the ice-cream was dangerous and claimed he took "every possible precaution" when preparing it.

Chili Cook Off

Recently, at my work, we had a great Chili Cook-off. Co-workers brought in various styles of chili for the judges and the eater's (like me) to sample and enjoy at lunch time. After the 'official' judging was concluded we were allowed into the area to graze, er sample away. We each got a sample of every chili with a corresponding color cup. We placed our token in the colored cup at the main table for the one we enjoyed the most. Some cooks also indulged us with other tasty treats such as Jalapeno Corn Bread. A favorite I might add. Others brought in homemade chip dip and others brought in their Lemonade concoctions.

All-in-all everyone was polite and everything went pleasantly smooth. To include good food with good conversation. I am thinking in this following piece, something went haywire at this chili cook off.

Houston Off-Duty Cop Allegedly Tossed Tear Gas at Rodeo Chili Cook-off

HOUSTON - A Houston police officer was suspended after he allegedly threw a tear gas canister at rivals during a chili cook-off competition on Friday.

Senior Officer Mike Hamby, 51, is suspended with pay during an internal affairs investigation for "criminal allegations," according to The Houston Chronicle. 
Hamby was off-duty and part of a cook-off team when the incident happened, an unidentified co-worker told the paper.
The annual chili cook-off is traditionally a huge event with hundreds of teams. The three-day competition kicks off two weeks of the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. 
The organizer of a neighboring tent, sponsored by the USO, says her guests were overcome by the noxious gas.
"We were devastated by it," Susie Barlow told the Chronicle. "We have elderly people, and I have two folks that night who were a double and triple amputee in wheelchairs."
Rodeo officials say 117,000 people attended the cook-off on its final day this year.

My thoughts, I love the word Allegedly - "Allegedly" he threw a tear gas canister. And "Allegedly" people were devastated by it. I am not sure why or how the double and triple amputees play into the story? Where they overcome from the gas, gasping for air as snot flew from their faces and their eyes burned? Just to qualify, I have been through several gas chambers, so I know the feeling well. Also, for something as serious as a tear gas canister being tossed into a crowd of people or chili tent, wouldn't there be more meat, excuse the pun, in this story? I guess that is why I blog and not write professionally!!!!  Have fun peeps!