Spectacular Bid

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by FATPIANO

could I please have what you are drinking, must be some strong ****

It's a special drink that you can only buy in Southern California. It's Zenyatta Kool Aid.

[FATPIANO]

Originally Posted by Indian Charlie

It's a special drink that you can only buy in Southern California. It's Zenyatta Kool Aid.

lol, it must a real strong drink

[Indian Charlie]

Originally Posted by FATPIANO

lol, it must a real strong drink

Well, yeah, besides the usual sugars, artificial flavors and colors, and such, it also has jimson weed extract. Jimson weed is a plentiful plant, especially in Southern California, where I'd see it all the time when I'd go out and forage wild plants for myself.

From Wiki:

Datura intoxication typically produces a complete inability to differentiate reality from fantasy (delirium, as contrasted to hallucination); hyperthermia; tachycardia; bizarre, and possibly violent behavior; and severe mydriasis with resultant painful photophobia that can last several days. Pronounced amnesia is another commonly reported effect.

Also from Wiki:

In the United States the plant is called jimson weed, or more rarely Jamestown weed; it got this name from the town of Jamestown, Virginia, where British soldiers were drugged with it while attempting to suppress Bacon's Rebellion. They spent eleven days generally appearing to have gone insane:

And finally, from Wiki:

The James-Town Weed (which resembles the Thorny Apple of Peru, and I take to be the plant so call'd) is supposed to be one of the greatest coolers in the world. This being an early plant, was gather'd very young for a boil'd salad, by some of the soldiers sent thither to quell the rebellion of Bacon (1676); and some of them ate plentifully of it, the effect of which was a very pleasant comedy, for they turned natural fools upon it for several days: one would blow up a feather in the air; another would dart straws at it with much fury; and another, stark naked, was sitting up in a corner like a monkey, grinning and making mows [grimaces] at them; a fourth would fondly kiss and paw his companions, and sneer in their faces with a countenance more antic than any in a Dutch droll.

In this frantic condition they were confined, lest they should, in their folly, destroy themselves — though it was observed that all their actions were full of innocence and good nature. Indeed, they were not very cleanly; for they would have wallowed in their own excrements, if they had not been prevented. A thousand such simple tricks they played, and after eleven days returned themselves again, not remembering anything that had passed. – The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705