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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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 Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: Did Thomas Edison smoke dank? |
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Or perhaps trip out on some shrooms, peyote, or maybe rum distilled in a dead woman's uterus?
From this month's Harper's:
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From an untitled prose poem by Thomas Alva Edison, found among his papers. Volume six of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, covering April 1881 through March 1883, will be published next month by The Johns Hopkins University Press. According to the editors of the volume, "The circumstances surrounding the creation of this document are entirely unknown."
A Bowery Angel smoking a palm tree stubbed his toe on a comet, and pimples came out on his toe nail as big as mountains. He swore so much that God made eight new planets out of the conversation & peopled and fauna'd & flora'd them eccentrically. The almighty has a vein of humor. He made these planets & peopled them to give amusements to beings on the rest of the celestial plantation. The men were 800 miles long & 1/4 inch thick. They slept on telegraph poles, and animals with bodies as big as a pea with 900 eyes each as big as a saucer lived on these long men by catching them by the feet and sucking them in like macaroni. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, at least he may have invented something honestly. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| Some drugs that were prescribed for people in that time are now illegal in a lot of countries. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:21 am Post subject: |
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| Some drugs that were prescribed for people in that time are now illegal in a lot of countries. |
What do you think the strongest thing available was at the time in that region?
Men 100 feet long and 1/4 inch thick, stretched across telegraph poles, being preyed upon by animals that are as small as a pea but somehow have 900 eyes the size of a saucer.
That's wilder than anything Dali ever dreamed up. Whatever it is he had, I've got to know. |
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dogshed
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kimchi_pizza
Joined: 24 Jul 2006
Location: "Get back on the bus! Here it comes!"
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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There's a good chance it was opium. During the 1800s and early 1900s it was a popular "all-cure" in the form of Laudinum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudinum
Did you notice most users listed were people of creative minds and writers? Aww..do you have a cold? Here! Take a swig of opium....all your ailments will magically disappear! I think that's one of several things that killed Edgar Allen Poe. I wrote a paper on him once and I think it was briefly mentioned. |
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Qinella
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| Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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| The 19th century sure sounds like a dope era to live in. YOW!! |
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