tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post2882527443771524629..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Mad Dead Hag, We Salute You!Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-2657625022587774732011-06-13T14:05:15.676+01:002011-06-13T14:05:15.676+01:00They just get a bit more subtle and try to get law...They just get a bit more subtle and try to get laws changed and do a PR job etc. Prohibitionists are fools. Alcohol prohibition didn't work just drove it into organised crime hands. Has drug prohibition worked? Oh No! Driven it into the hands of criminals. Don't they ever learn? Don't we ever learn? Deride these idiots!Dr Evilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00176521760477086914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-59382392674571845402011-06-11T12:38:10.796+01:002011-06-11T12:38:10.796+01:00I will be delighted to help as the anti-alcohol wr...I will be delighted to help as the anti-alcohol wretches have already had a go at me.<br /><br />Teetotallers are the 'new pariahs' - Health Secretary warns on Britain's drink habit - 2009<br /><br />"Teetotallers should be celebrated instead of shunned as pariahs, the Health Secretary will say today."<br />"Instead, Mr Johnson will demand a wider, fundamental shift in attitudes to alcohol. In a speech to the Royal Society of Arts, he will liken the 'disdain' with which nondrinkers are treated to that of non- smokers in previous decades" ??<br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1163092/Teetotallers-new-pariahs--Health-Secretary-warns-Britains-drink-habit.html<br /><br />It will be a distinct pleasure, just for once,for them not to be able to dismiss my thoughts by saying that it's only the "drug" speaking. <br /><br />RoseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-62602033039311550172011-06-11T10:33:01.810+01:002011-06-11T10:33:01.810+01:00ALCOHOL
A DANGEROUS AND UNNECESSARY MEDICINE
HOW ...ALCOHOL<br /><br />A DANGEROUS AND UNNECESSARY MEDICINE<br />HOW AND WHY<br /><br />What Medical Writers Say<br />BY<br />MRS. MARTHA M. ALLEN<br /><br />Superintendent of the Department of Medical Temperance<br />for the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union<br /><br />Published by the<br />DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL TEMPERANCE OF THE<br />NATIONAL WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION<br /><br />1900.<br /><br />HISTORY OF THE STUDY OF ALCOHOL<br />"If the medical profession is responsible for the wide-spread belief that alcoholics are of service to mankind both as food and medicine, it should not be forgotten that it is to members of the same profession the world is indebted for the correction of these errors."<br />http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26774/26774.txt <br /><br />The interesting thing is that both alcohol and tobacco had previously been considered to be of medicinal benefit.<br /><br />Our current views of both as purely recreational and therefore heavily sin taxed, would seem to be their lingering legacy.<br /><br />Perhaps we should take a closer look.<br /><br />RoseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-20563357813033639122011-06-11T10:17:20.288+01:002011-06-11T10:17:20.288+01:00Although there were separate anti-tobacco and anti...Although there were separate anti-tobacco and anti-alcohol “crusades”, those in the temperance movement were typically anti-both.<br /><br />For example, Carrie, the dear, who was most identified with anti-alcohol, “hissed” a shot at President Theodore Rooseveldt for being a “cigarette fiend” (addict). [The anti-tobacco Lucy Page Gaston also represented the WCTU]<br /><br /><b>CARRIE NATION HISSED.; She Called President Roosevelt a "Cigarette Fiend" -- Rockaway Beach Sunday Theatre Crowd Resented It.</b><br /><br />Carrie Nation caused an outburst of indignation in Morrison's Theatre, in Rockaway Beach, last night, which for a moment threatened to cause trouble. The audience had allowed her to proceed with a ten-minute tirade against drinking and smoking until she assailed President Roosevelt by name, and the moment she did her sentence was drowned by hisses and these were followed by cries of "Throw her out!" and "Kick her out!" <br />1903<br />http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9404E0DE1439E433A25754C0A96F9C946297D6CF&scp=127&sq=smoking&st=p<br /><br /><br /><b>MAY START TOBACCO CRUSADE.; W.C.T.U. Considers an Anti-Smoking Amendment to the Liquor Pledge.</b><br /><br />PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 18 -- The second day's sessions of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union was attended by 1,500 delegates. Reports of organizers and physical exercises conducted by Mrs. Frances W. Leiter, National Superintendent of Physical Education, occupied the time until the evangelistic hour, during which Miss Greenwood of New York presided. <br />1902<br />http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E4D81E39EF32A2575AC1A9669D946397D6CF&scp=77&sq=smoking&st=pMagneticnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-16296905298457789762011-06-11T09:49:29.677+01:002011-06-11T09:49:29.677+01:00It's only 9.45am so maybe I'd better wait ...It's only 9.45am so maybe I'd better wait for an hour!<br /><br />There won't be a funeral for the Dreadful Arnott, she's surely already one of the living dead.<br /><br />JayAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-33977729391303511472011-06-11T03:15:45.332+01:002011-06-11T03:15:45.332+01:00doing well, but will leave the absinthe for tomorr...doing well, but will leave the absinthe for tomorrowalanxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-70558259759368024582011-06-11T02:20:17.699+01:002011-06-11T02:20:17.699+01:00Fucking Smashed Good 'n Propped!;-)
CFFucking Smashed Good 'n Propped!;-)<br />CFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-18861935954920460642011-06-11T01:55:08.072+01:002011-06-11T01:55:08.072+01:00You're a dreadful lot. Hasn't it occurred...You're a dreadful lot. Hasn't it occurred to you that she may have suffered dreadfully from PMT?<br /><br />My admiration goes to the two husbands. :)subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-54436513196501223252011-06-11T00:37:50.301+01:002011-06-11T00:37:50.301+01:00I'm not sure about seeing Arnott's funeral...I'm not sure about seeing Arnott's funeral - I'd like her to get old. Really, really old but still lucid (well, as lucid as she gets).<br /><br />I want her to wade in her excrement while nurses ignore her pitiful cries for attention. I want her to enjoy nappy rash again. I want her to feel thirsty for hours.<br /><br />Nation lives on through Arnott and Schenker. The sad lesson is that tyrants never really die.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-22048948976033469962011-06-11T00:05:09.774+01:002011-06-11T00:05:09.774+01:00Good timing. I've just picked up a discounted ...Good timing. I've just picked up a discounted bottle of Black Bottle for the evening. Also took advantage of a 3 for 2 offer on Blackthorn cider. I am stocked and ready to go.<br /><br />Pity I won't be around for the 100-year anniversary of the Dreadful Arnott's death, but I hope to be around for the funeral. It would be worth it just for the irony.Leg-ironhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932361799889315359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-44415700778648792612011-06-10T22:51:48.619+01:002011-06-10T22:51:48.619+01:00I shall have a...erm...drink to her memory.
Or se...I shall have a...erm...drink to her memory.<br /><br />Or several.<br /><br />Hopefully she didn't have that much of a miserable life, poor soul. I mean, everyone needs a hobby and at least they were still allowed to carry hatchets back then...<br /><br />Edit: 'pickslyt' as a word verification? You're not in thrall to Big Porno as well as Big Tobacco, are you? I think that we should be told!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-59514027273988781202011-06-10T22:40:43.940+01:002011-06-10T22:40:43.940+01:00Dick - You're right. Bullets would probably bo...Dick - You're right. Bullets would probably bounce off thoses skinsBuckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-65923105671171740732011-06-10T22:33:20.547+01:002011-06-10T22:33:20.547+01:00Toper: It does seem to be a recurring theme, for s...Toper: It does seem to be a recurring theme, for sure.<br /><br />Bucko: Yes, thought the same, but if she was <a href="http://southcarolina1670.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/lips.jpg" rel="nofollow">one of these</a>, perhaps they didn't want to mess with her!<br /><br />MW & Nisakiman: Followed by curry, I hope? ;)Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36637119558057355522011-06-10T21:20:19.054+01:002011-06-10T21:20:19.054+01:00"Personally, I think the anniversary of her d...<i>"Personally, I think the anniversary of her death requires marking in suitable fashion. A weekend of shit-faced debauchery should get her spinning nicely in her box, I reckon. "</i><br /><br />I'll drink to that!nisakimannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-14740358388398489032011-06-10T21:17:52.408+01:002011-06-10T21:17:52.408+01:00"A weekend of shit-faced debauchery..."
...<i>"A weekend of shit-faced debauchery..."</i><br /><br />Mine started a couple of hours ago, I'm glad to see it's in a good cause this time round.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-67405914625700676242011-06-10T21:03:36.302+01:002011-06-10T21:03:36.302+01:00Already on it!
Although I would have thought that ...Already on it!<br />Although I would have thought that walking into a saloon in the turn of the century America and breaking stuff with a hatchet would have gotten you shot with a 6 gun.<br /><br />(Word verification is prefilin. Is that like pre-loading?)Buckohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169970711606515445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-90794943085365631132011-06-10T21:02:56.906+01:002011-06-10T21:02:56.906+01:00It appears that several members of her family suf...It appears that several members of her family suffered from mental illness and her mother had delusions of being Queen Victoria.<br />Seems she had all the genetic qualities required to be a member of the 'righteous.'The Travelling Toperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959982712137149288noreply@blogger.com