[Rhodes22-list] Could I Have Another Helping of Big Government, Please?

[Brad Haslett]

Robert,

My first wife Sandy, an excellent nurse, outstanding mother, and still a
good friend, used to give our son a shot of Amaretto as cough medicine.
Stopped the cough, eased the pain, and put him to sleep every time. I use it
in coffee as a cough preventative.  That works too!

Brad

On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com>
wrote:

> Yup.  When I had a cough or the runs, my father would
> give me a dose of paregoric -- tincture of opium with
> camphor.  Until the 60's, I could still buy it at the
> local drug store -- great for the trots, etc.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paregoric
>
> /Robert (note that this is not critical of anyone else,
> and contains no sugar, trans-fat, or socialism)
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Steven Alm wrote:
> >
> > That reminds me of a story in our family.  When I was just a toddler I
> got
> > sick with a bad cold or something and my grandmother gave me a little
> > whiskey.  Although I was sleeping soundly, my mother was furious.
>  Gramma
> > never got arrested but I've had a taste for that stuff ever since.  How
> > times have changed.
> >
> > Slim
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > You're not going to believe this, but I STARTED to write about how so
> > > many beauracrats **pick the "low hanging fruit" to do their job, and
> > > thought "Nah, better not open that can of worms ..."
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