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vintageads2010-05-16 11:04 am
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Spare me your "Phosph this and Phosph that..."
Is your constitution shattered? Do you poop out at parties? Then try...

Yanno, if it's good enough for the frickin' Empress of Russia, it's good enough for me.
Question: Where do people get old magazines anymore? I don't see them in thrift shops or garage sales like I once did. Maybe Estate Sales are a better bet? This ad came from a book about World War One.
Observation for Mods: If you want a physical prize for the barf food contest, have you considered sending the winner several boxes of Lime Jello? Then they could create their own wonderful dishes at home. And it's gotta be ~Lime~ - I'm just sayin'.

Yanno, if it's good enough for the frickin' Empress of Russia, it's good enough for me.
Question: Where do people get old magazines anymore? I don't see them in thrift shops or garage sales like I once did. Maybe Estate Sales are a better bet? This ad came from a book about World War One.
Observation for Mods: If you want a physical prize for the barf food contest, have you considered sending the winner several boxes of Lime Jello? Then they could create their own wonderful dishes at home. And it's gotta be ~Lime~ - I'm just sayin'.
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... Well, alcohol is a step above heroin as a "tonic", I suppose. Quinine and Sulfuric Acid don't actually have any real 'soothing' effects, do they?
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I do know that you could buy laudanum in drugstores in Britain, even as late as the 1930s - but you had to inform the druggist what it was for - so I'm not entirely sure what the legal status was. People did know it was addictive by this point.