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

[Rik Sandberg]

Agree on this .... personal, unscientific experience.

Personally, I like it straight, no ice. :-)

Rik

Brad Haslett wrote:
> 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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