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Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders

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From djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
Subject Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders
Message-ID <p8Hv2D.1GCG@kithrup.com> (permalink)
Date 2018-05-10 03:59 +0000
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In article <flhq0hFahm5U1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In article <ju57fdpaakqdrb4vj3osugbn7i3nahogin@4ax.com>,
>Joy Beeson  <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:
>>On Wed, 2 May 2018 21:54:16 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt)
>>wrote:
>>
>>> In article <pcd8fp$o9j$3@dont-email.me>,
>>> Lynn McGuire  <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >Things have really changed since I was a kid.  My grandfather used to 
>>> >give me $2.00 back in 1970 or so.  I would ride my bike over to the 
>>> >Pik-n-Pak and get him a carton of Camels for $1.90.
>>> 
>>> And they'd sell them to you???
>>> 
>>> Anybody recall when the ukase about selling tobacco to minors
>>> went in?  I know it was already in when I was nineteen.  (No, I
>>> never smoked, but a friend of mine who wasn't eighteen yet 
>>> complained about it.)
>>
>>
>>In the fifties I saw a situation comedy in which a father confronted a
>>clerk who had sold tobacco to his son; the clerk said "It's all right;
>>he was buying it for his mother."  Turned out that the mother was
>>making bug poison.
>>
>>Mom once sent me to the drug store once to buy cough syrup.  She
>>looked at the bottle the pharmacist recommended and exclaimed "he sold
>>codeine to a minor!" and was quite upset.  I don't recall whether I
>>had to sign for it.
>>
>
>As far as I know, anyone can buy vanilla extract, which is 70 proof.

Yes, but there's a difference between alcohol plus vanilla, and
alcohol plus codeine.

And while I don't drink ethanol myself, I have the feeling that a
person would have to collect a lot of vanilla to get squiffed.
The bottles I'm familiar contain an ounce.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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[review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-05-01 13:54 +0000
  Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders wollman@bimajority.org (Garrett Wollman) - 2018-05-01 14:58 +0000
    Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Bill Dugan <wkdugan@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-05-01 08:10 -0700
      Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-03 06:36 -0500
        Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Bill Dugan <wkdugan@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-05-03 07:06 -0700
    Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-03 06:35 -0500
  Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-01 19:29 +0000
    Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-01 15:06 -0500
      Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-01 20:31 +0000
        Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-01 16:07 -0500
          Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-01 14:25 -0700
            Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-01 21:33 +0000
              Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-05-01 15:14 -0700
      Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-01 15:40 -0700
      Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-05-02 00:15 +0100
        Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Chris Buckley <alan@sabir.com> - 2018-05-02 04:50 +0000
          Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 03:00 -0400
            Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-05-02 16:24 +0300
              Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 11:00 -0400
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Juho Julkunen <giaotanj@hotmail.com> - 2018-05-03 16:22 +0300
            Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-02 15:34 +0000
              Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:53 -0500
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-02 21:13 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-05-02 17:20 -0400
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) - 2018-05-02 21:23 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-02 21:25 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-02 14:35 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 16:40 -0500
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-02 15:53 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:10 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 17:33 -0500
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:55 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-02 16:08 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-02 21:54 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 17:30 -0500
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 17:35 -0500
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-02 16:07 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-05-02 15:54 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> - 2018-05-09 21:57 -0300
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-10 02:44 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-05-10 03:59 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-05-10 04:25 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Magewolf <Magewolf@nc.rr.com> - 2018-05-10 08:04 -0400
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-10 05:34 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-05-10 09:36 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-11 06:14 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-11 07:52 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-05-11 17:08 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2018-05-10 11:27 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-10 11:47 -0700
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-05-10 13:51 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders "Michael R N Dolbear" <me@privacy.net> - 2018-05-02 23:52 +0100
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders "Default User" <defaultuserbr@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-03 00:24 +0000
                Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-05-02 17:31 -0700
    Re: [review] The Human Dress by Graydon Saunders graydonish@gmail.com - 2018-05-02 18:07 -0700

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