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HalfMooner
Dingaling
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My mother failed in her duty to simply put a nipple on a soda bottle and hand it to me in the crib! That would have been a "strict regimen" I could live with. I could have had friends, but no! Now it's too late. I drink sodas, but the critical formative years are past.
From Criggo (a great place to browse!):
No scientific parenting for me, despite the fact that The Soda Pop Board of America did Laboratory tests! (I wonder where the research was peer reviewed?)
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 12/30/2008 07:51:27
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 12/30/2008 : 08:22:56 [Permalink]
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My mother tried it but it turned out that I didn't like cola much better then than I do now. And now, I consider soda pops of all sorts to be only a little short of outright poisonous.
Friends, who needs 'em? All they do is borrow your money, drink your booze, hit on your ol' lady, and let their dogs crap in your yard. Bah! Gimmie a good, reliable enemy any time.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 12/30/2008 : 16:45:55 [Permalink]
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I've now Googled "Soda Pop Board of America" and have come to the conclusion that the ad above is a prank.
Fooled me! But the best parodies always are very hard to identify as such.
Too bad I'm forced to put all mine in SFN's parody ghetto. I'd love to work at suckering skeptics. But, this being a skeptic site, I can understand the Admins wanting it that way. It might be embarrassing to have one's best skeptical contributors regularly made fools of. (Not that I'd fool you, Dear Reader, just the other folks.)
BTW, my dad relates that in his day, babies were given a cone-shaped cloth bag, filled with sugar. They sucked on the pointed end, and it reportedly calmed the brats. This was called a "sugar tit" and was available in grocery stores.
I've read that babies were once given laudanum, an opium tincture, to calm them.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 12/30/2008 : 23:34:55 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
I've read that babies were once given laudanum, an opium tincture, to calm them. |
Yeah, now we just use whatever brown liquor happens to be handy, or if none is available, a healthy dose of Nyquil.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2008 : 05:16:21 [Permalink]
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Tincture of laudanum has an interesting history:
"In the 16th century, Paracelsus experimented with the medical value of opium. He decided that its medical (analgesic) value was of such magnitude that he called it Laudanum, from the Latin laudare, to praise, or from labdanum, the term for a plant extract. He did not know of its addictive properties. (15th century - 16th century - 17th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. ... Presumed portrait of Paracelsus, attributed to the school of Quentin Matsys. ... An analgesic (colloquially known as a painkiller) is any member of the diverse group of drugs used to relieve pain (achieve analgesia). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Addiction is an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences. ...
In the 19th century, laudanum was used in many patent medicines to "relieve pain... to produce sleep... to allay irritation... to check excessive secretions... to support the system... [and] as a sudorific".[1] The limited pharmacopoeia of the day meant that opium derivatives were among the most efficacious of available treatments, and so laudanum was widely prescribed for ailments from colds to meningitis to cardiac diseases, in both adults and children. Laudanum was used during the yellow fever epidemic. Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century #8212; 19th century #8212; 20th century #8212; more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... E.W. Kembles Deaths Laboratory in Colliers Magazine in 1906 Patent medicine is the somewhat misleading term given to various medical compounds sold under a variety of names and labels, though they were, for the most part, actually medicines with trademarks, not patented medicines. ... Sweating (also called perspiration or sometimes transpiration) is the loss of a watery fluid, consisting mainly of sodium chloride and urea in solution, that is secreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. ... Back cover of the Chinese pharmacopoeia First Edition (published in 1930) Pharmacopoeia (literally, the art of the drug compounder), in its modern technical sense, is a book containing directions for the identification of samples and the preparation of compound medicines, and published by the authority of a government or a... Acute viral nasopharyngitis, often known as the common cold, is a viral infectious disease of the upper respiratory system (nose and throat). ... Meningitis is the inflammation of the protective membranes covering the central nervous system, known collectively as the meninges. ... The heart and lungs, from an older edition of Grays Anatomy. ... This article is about the medical term. ...
The Romantic and Victorian eras were marked by the widespread use of laudanum in Europe and the United States. Initially a working class drug, laudanum was cheaper than a bottle of gin or wine, because it was treated as a medication for legal purposes and not taxed as an alcoholic beverage. Literary figures of note who used laudanum include:....."
There follows a list of names & links, some of which might come as a surprise to you.
Alas, the sugar tit (I'm old enough to remember those. I recall my grandmother making one for my younger brother) has never replaced the opiate for quieting the squalling offspring of a harried and short-tempered mother. Public transportation would be much quieter if it had.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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astropin
SFN Regular
USA
970 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2008 : 09:55:06 [Permalink]
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| True story - My sister-in-law used to put her second daughter to bed with a bottle of juice! Her teeth all rotted as they were coming in and had to be removed....all of them. No teeth until adult teeth! I'm not real close with my sister-in-law. |
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You are free to believe what you want to believe and I am free to ridicule you for it.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2008 : 11:32:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by astropin
True story - My sister-in-law used to put her second daughter to bed with a bottle of juice! Her teeth all rotted as they were coming in and had to be removed....all of them. No teeth until adult teeth! I'm not real close with my sister-in-law.
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Yeah, that happens a lot. Mostly because lazy/exhausted parents want to get some rest. I recall when my first wife and I were raising our daughter, we were aware of the problem, and made sure the small bottle we left in the crib with her at night was warm water, to protect her teeth.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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No wonder I grew up to be unpopular
