Did you know

[SandyDown]

Did you know that people who buy bananas are more likely to buy peppers?

Didn’t know that, is this Bell sweet peppers, or hot chilli pepper?

[AlfredJPruffock]

The inspiration for Coca Cola was a tonic wine Vin Mariana - a cocaine-laced wine very popular in Europe in the mid-1800s.

Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903) endorsed Vin Mariani.

When Colonel John Pemberton in Atlanta brewed up his first batch of Coca-Cola in 1886, he was trying to imitate Vin Mariani but dropped the wine to avoid problems with Temperance groups. Pemberton did, however leave in the cocaine... which remained in Coke for at least the the next twenty years.


Dont be a Dope like the Pope Kids ... Remember

Dont let them fool you with Dope and Cocaine
No one can harm you - feel your own pain

Keep you occupied
With pie in the Sky
Now that I found out - I know I can cry


Old Hare Krishnas got nothing on you
Just keep you crazy with nothing to to

There aint no Jesus - gonna come out of the Sky

Ive seen through Junkies
Ive been through Hell

Now that I found out
I know I can cry

[PRC1964]

If you want to hang out, you’ve got to take her out, cocaine
If you want to get down, get down on the ground, cocaine
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie, cocaine
If you got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine
When your day is done and you got to run, cocaine
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie, cocaine
If your thing is gone and you want to ride on, cocaine
Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back, cocaine
She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie, cocaine

[xoggoth]

A bit of cocaine was probably not much of a problem anyway.

Can't be bothered to look for it but some experts think the addictive effect of cocaine and heroine is much overdone, they point out how enormous numbers of US troops in Vietnam picked up a heroine habit to cope with stress but gave up without help when they got back home. If anyone has read "Marching Powder" (based on true story) they must have been struck by the way the resourceful central character reduces his Cocaine habit when he needs to, although that was not crack of course.

Maybe not so much that hard drugs produce criminality and dependency but that criminal and dependent sorts turn to drugs.

PS Sorry to depart from silliness of rest of thread but am always grumpy in the mornings.

[AlfredJPruffock]

I caught you knockin'
at my cellar door
I love you, baby,
can I have some more
Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and
I lost my band
I watched the needle
take another man
Gone, gone, the damage done.

I've seen the needle
and the damage done
A little part of it in everyone

But every junkie's
like a settin' sun.

[SallyAnne]

Didn’t know that, is this Bell sweet peppers, or hot chilli pepper?

Its actually Peppers from the salad department. Yellow ones first, then green, then red.
Whereas people who dont buy bananas, aren't very likely to buy any peppers.

[TimberWolf]

Did you know that people who buy bananas are more likely to buy peppers?

Did you know that we share 50% of our genes with a banana and that banana trees can 'walk' up to 15 centimeters a year? (positive phototropism).

[PRC1964]

Did you know that we share 50% of our genes with a banana and that banana trees can 'walk' up to 15 centimeters a year? (positive phototropism).

Blimey, with a bit more global warming Macbeth could be updated to have Burnham Wood really come to Dunsinane.

[NotAllThere]

Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed?

No. I'm generally this grumpy. But I do wonder when and where you heard it. Someone was going on about in the pub on Friday night as well. But I thought that was just a one-off numpty.

[SallyAnne]

Did you know that we share 50% of our genes with a banana and that banana trees can 'walk' up to 15 centimeters a year? (positive phototropism).

No, no, no, no, no - pleae dont tell me there are actual trees that move!!!!!! haven't you seen Day of the Triffids for the love of god!!!

<runs screaming from buliding!!>