Good news from the FDA!

[Guest]

Did I say that? I don't drink, do I?

no you didnt say it... i just want you to sue me for lible against myself.

 

[cantdog]

I'd love to join the conversation. You're such lovely people and I admire you all so greatly. I hope you don't think I've been just rudely eavesdropping. I'd have said something but I just haven't seen a gap in the seamless glistening surface of it to jump into.

cantdog

 

[shereads]

I'd love to join the conversation. You're such lovely people and I admire you all so greatly. I hope you don't think I've been just rudely eavesdropping. I'd have said something but I just haven't seen a gap in the seamless glistening surface of it to jump into.

cantdog

Quoth us something.

 

[cantdog]

The place I saw the fecal standard discussed was Molly Ivins' book, Bushwhacked, chapter 8, 'Ready To Eat.'

Would you like some shit to go with your quarter-pounder? The Republican party is the party of unregulated meat and poultry.

 

[cantdog]

But that part of the surface of the conversation was less glistening. Not fibrous, of course...

My problem is that I can't tell what we're discussing any more.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

But that part of the surface of the conversation was less glistening. Not fibrous, of course...

My problem is that I can't tell what we're discussing any more.

Zip!

~lucky

p.s. If it makes Sher say, 'Yowsa!', it is definitely a good thing.

 

[shereads]

My problem is that I can't tell what we're discussing any more.

Another tragic loss in the War on Drugs.

Hey, what if we combine the FDA with the Drug Enforcement Agency and create the FDADEA? Or maybe "FA" for short.

 

[cantdog]

It would be nice if it resembled a public health agency instead of a payoff to the meat packers.

How 'bout we scrap the war on drugs, except for the helicopter rides. Would that make them happy? A cop I know said he got to spend days at a time riding helicopters to spot weed from the air. He said it was absolutely the pleasantest days' work he'd ever been asked to do.

So when someone wants to stop the WOD I think there goes Skip's fun.

 

[shereads]

It would be nice if it resembled a public health agency instead of a payoff to the meat packers.

How 'bout we scrap the war on drugs, except for the helicopter rides. Would that make them happy? A cop I know said he got to spend days at a time riding helicopters to spot weed from the air. He said it was absolutely the pleasantest days' work he'd ever been asked to do.

So when someone wants to stop the WOD I think there goes Skip's fun.

That's the problem: if we actually won the War on Drugs, we'd have to stop Skip's fun. More importantly, we'd have to cut back on fun for the military-industrial tycoons whose golf club fees were paid on time during the lean years after the Cold War, thanks to the War on Drugs.

Fortunately, we may not need the War on Drugs forever. If we're ever again in the unprofitable position of having nobody to invade or occupy, the War on Terror will provide the necessary demand for kazillions of dollars in new surveillance technology, etc. Not to mention better, cooler helicopters for Skip.

Does Skip nip at the weed now and again? I have a feeling he and the helicopter both get high.

 

[cantdog]

Zip!

~lucky

p.s. If it makes Sher say, 'Yowsa!', it is definitely a good thing.

I loved that. Wouldn't that be a great record label? Yowsa! Records, Inc. You can just See the donut shaped 45 label with the big word wrapped around the upper half..

Wanna hear about my telepathic experience in the summer of 1966, sher?

I posted it.

 

[cantdog]

That's the problem: Skip.

Does Skip nip at the weed now and again? I have a feeling he and the helicopter both get high.

I elided some of your post...

I like to think so. He's been deputized to do undercover. I think he would have had to, to stay in character. Line of duty. He doesn't discuss everything with me.

 

[shereads]

I have a question for Skip:

Every time the news reports a drug bust, there's a reference to the high quality/purity of the confiscated substance.

Skip, has there ever been a single drug arrest where the weed/cocaine/heroin/meth/etc. turned out to be lousy? I remember there being a lot of poor-quality product around, especially in college towns where we weren't that discerning. Why not go after some of those dealers? The ones who are not only Destroying America's Youth but ripping them off?

 

[shereads]

Wanna hear about my telepathic experience in the summer of 1966, sher?

I just did.

But you can tell it again if you want.

 

[cantdog]

'S okay. Once is enough for that story.

Once it "turns out" to be lousy, the poor guy is already arrested. Same if it turns out to be good. Whether they succeed going after him hinges on lawyers, lies, even police work, sometimes. But not on quality, unless it "turns out" to be oregano. Then the law sets him free.

The law is an ass.

But I'll ask Skip.

 

[shereads]

'S okay. Once is enough for that story.

Once it "turns out" to be lousy, the poor guy is already arrested. Same if it turns out to be good. Whether they succeed going after him hinges on lawyers, lies, even police work, sometimes. But not on quality, unless it "turns out" to be oregano. Then the law sets him free.

The law is an ass.

But I'll ask Skip.

My question isn't really about the validity of our drug laws; as we learned from Reefer Madness, marijuana may seem no more dangerous than beer, but it leads to Hard Drugs, such as "Smack." That's why we had to sentence Tommy Chong to hard time for making a TV commercial for bongs. A hookah would have had some cultural merit as a collector's item, but a bong is typically plastic, and nearly always ugly.

My question for Skip is, who benefits from impressing the public with the high-quality stuff you guys keep finding? The news media, or the agent who made the arrest?

Also: Is there a quality checklist that drugs undergo before the press conference, or is it acceptable practice to assume the stuff was pure without trying it first? Are there jobs in that field?

 

[shereads]

'S okay. Once is enough for that story.

No indeed! If it's the one the Voices told me a few minutes ago, it deserves a thread of its own.

I think I'll start one. Be there, because you're my opening act.







CDog, here's your Christmas present. I would have wrapped it but they didn't have any boxes left.

 

[cantdog]

I loved it when you took me to the store to see it in the other thread.

Now I have my own! Thanks, sher. I feel bad I didn't get you something.

 

[shereads]

I loved it when you took me to the store to see it in the other thread.

Now I have my own! Thanks, sher. I feel bad I didn't get you something.

I thought her shoe was some kind of fabric drapery on the end of his sleeve. Like a bellbottom sleeve. That's what happens when you write about drugs.

 

[cantdog]

No, I saw it too.

I don't think the photographer was keeping all the details in mind. Not equally.