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Re: Wednesday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

The explanation I've heard is that the active ingredient in wormwood isn't flushed fro mthe body very readily and so accumulates if you drink it on a regular basis. One month of getting drunk on it and your brain melts.

I have no idea if it's true.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Apr 30th, 2008 at 04:16:02 PM EST
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The wiki entry is full of fascinating material...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Wed Apr 30th, 2008 at 04:27:03 PM EST
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Having drunk some "real" absinthe (not the fake stuff they sell now), I must say it's not ordinary hooch of the anis kind, for example. It's not the alcohol, it's something else that has a strange effect. Perhaps accumulation might induce a different state of consciousness.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Apr 30th, 2008 at 04:35:48 PM EST
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at underground parties in frisco, there would often be a table where one could buy from the witches some real, wormwood based absinthe. i'm no scientific sample, but that was sure not an alcohol high. was it actually absinthe, i have no idea.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Wed Apr 30th, 2008 at 05:19:40 PM EST
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Re: Wednesday Open Thread (4.00 / 8)

This busker I snapped in Bath seems to have partaken of the wormwoody elixir, wouldn't you say?

My first try at uploading a photo to ET. Here goes.

Blaugustine

by Augustinatalie (endapressNOTblueyonderNOTcoNOTuk) on Wed Apr 30th, 2008 at 08:51:25 PM EST
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If you take the hair away, the violinist kind of looks like Ken Livingstone.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Wed Apr 30th, 2008 at 09:12:22 PM EST
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Re: Wednesday Open Thread (4.00 / 3)

Great photo and you posted your first! No reason not to find yourself adding to the photoblog tomorrow!

Ad astra per aspera

by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu May 1st, 2008 at 01:30:28 AM EST
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