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ivytheplant
September 5, 2004 4:54 AM

I've been tossing this idea about for a while, just itching to use it in a PV.

Now, we all know there's a whole range of fabulous medicines available for the common cold. Back in the last few centuries, people came up with the most creative remedies. A single bottle of tonic could cure everything from fatigue to cancer. Of course those bottles usually contained high proof alcohol, heroin, cocaine, and other combinations of now illegal drugs. Nothing like a heroin addiction to make my cold seem better!

Anyway, for this PV, I want ya'll to make a medicine bottle label with bizarre ingredients. And you also have to incorporate old folk sayings about health. Like the "apple a day" saying. There's all sorts of fun sayings that are rather silly. Like many about putting on various layers of clothing or "you'll catch your death," or the old favorite about waiting an hour after eating before going swimming. And we all know about cod liver oil (my dad had some tales of that).

Bonus points if you can incorporate a live animal or the 1800's most successful cure for hysteria in women (I'm making you look that one up).

Judging will be next Saturday, though I may extend it to get more entries.

Well, what are you waiting for, minions? Get to it!

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biped September 5, 2004 7:51 AM
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ivytheplant September 8, 2004 7:32 AM	At this rate, biped is going to win by default. C'mon people! Enter it already! I want to see competition! I want to see blood and guts and people ripping each other's ears off!
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Zegota September 8, 2004 10:48 AM	I don't know any English old folk sayings about health. And I'm too lazy too look any up.
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biped September 8, 2004 2:42 PM	Sorry -- I didn't mean to make mine so great that it would intimidate everyone else.
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Rabid_Weasle September 8, 2004 5:56 PM
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niteowl
September 8, 2004 7:21 PM

A little background on my entry...

Where I work, we make the certain *patches* that you see on the drug store shelves, and the pic I came up with was inspired by a convo at work with my co-workers. We were musing about how much $$ the company could make off of something like this, how we'd all maybe get paid what we're worth, and how all of us peons would certainly enjoy our jobs more by getting to *sample* the product. Plus, the company that fills our vending machines would absolutely love us.

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lukket September 10, 2004 11:17 AM	I'll do something this weekend. Promise.* * or threat. I dunno.
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jes_lawson September 11, 2004 10:32 AM	At the minute my non-working hours are spent acting like an extra from a George Romero film. No promises, but I'll see what I can do.
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ivytheplant September 11, 2004 12:29 PM	It's extended til I get more entries. I suggest you enter lest this become the Neverending PV. Don't let that happen. You know what the sequels are like!
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MikeyG September 11, 2004 7:47 PM	I'd enter, but since I got on the weed patch I forgot where I work.
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lukket September 12, 2004 7:21 AM
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ivytheplant September 27, 2004 2:29 PM	Okay, I'm really disappointed that there wasn't more entries. Those of you who did enter, thanks. I'm declaring the winner to be v, but since he didn't even enter, the privilege of running the next PV will go to the first person who can pm me the correct answer to this question: What is a gazorninplat?
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MikeyG September 28, 2004 6:40 AM	Correct Definition: gazorninplat: Something unknown, a thingy, a whatchamacall it of sorts. MY Definition: gazorninplat: The feeling of frustration one experiences when attempting to open a hard, completely sealed plastic casing, such as the packaging Walkmen, headphones, video game controllers, and other such things, with anything other than an industrial jackhammer.
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ivytheplant September 28, 2004 2:14 PM	No one's gotten the right answer so far. Must be a generational thing. Here's a hint: "Meow. Purr purr meow. Meow. Purring sounds."
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NooniePuuBunny September 28, 2004 4:23 PM	the sound a cat makes when it tries to hawk up a hairball?! ^_^
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biped September 28, 2004 4:49 PM	quote: At this rate, biped is going to win by default. I like that idea much better than this "gazorninplat" tomfoolery.
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ivytheplant September 28, 2004 9:35 PM	I'm a fan of tomfoolery.
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kaufman September 28, 2004 9:36 PM	gazorninplat: When cats are purring, that's usually what they're purring about.
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Rabid_Weasle September 28, 2004 10:08 PM	I looked up the definition in a bloody online hip slang dictionary. I damn well got it right! (I PMed it to her)
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biped September 29, 2004 12:42 AM	Me too, but I did it first.
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ivytheplant September 29, 2004 12:49 PM	Actually no one got it right. I don't care what the online dictionaries say, they got it wrong! It doesn't exist. Garfield made that word up to get the Buddy Bears off his show. God damn it all. Lukket is the winner.
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lukket September 29, 2004 2:26 PM	quote: Actually no one got it right. I don't care what the online dictionaries say, they got it wrong! It doesn't exist. Garfield made that word up to get the Buddy Bears off his show. That explains why I didn't get it. They used another word in the Danish translation of Garfield.
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