Ba-Dump Tissssh - Memes

[Buckshot Bob]

[Alpo]

[Gracos Kid]

[Alpo]

[John Kloehr]

12 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I now have levels I can trust (36", 8", and a couple string levels_ but for many years had one that really was wrong. I just measured both directions and split the difference, about a 1/4 bubble off). Eventually replaced it and threw the old one (aluminum body) in my scrap metal bin. And I did break the glass to prevent scavenging.

[Subdeacon Joe]

10 hours ago, John Kloehr said:

about a 1/4 bubble off

 

Pot, meet Kettle 

Edited March 10 by Subdeacon Joe

[Equanimous Phil]

On 3/8/2025 at 10:24 PM, Alpo said:

 

A german one:

WENN FLIEGEN HINTER FLIEGEN FLIEGEN, FLIEGEN FLIEGEN FLIEGEN NACH.

(When flies fly after flies, flies fly after flies.)

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

57 minutes ago, Equanimous Phil said:

 

A german one:

WENN FLIEGEN HINTER FLIEGEN FLIEGEN, FLIEGEN FLIEGEN FLIEGEN NACH.

(When flies fly after flies, flies fly after flies.)

 

 

 

                                                       ......... naturally.

 

 

😉

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

19 hours ago, Alpo said:

So is candy, cookies or cake! Lots of it!

Then send them home and wait for the appreciative phone calls!

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

aka the nieces and nephews favorite uncle, alternately brother and sister nightmare

[Gracos Kid]

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

2 hours ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

So is candy, cookies or cake! Lots of it!

Then send them home and wait for the appreciative phone calls!

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

aka the nieces and nephews favorite uncle, alternately brother and sister nightmare

 

And you are never asked to babysit again!

[Alpo]

 

Edited March 10 by Alpo

[Cypress Sun]

2 hours ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

So is candy, cookies or cake! Lots of it!

Then send them home and wait for the appreciative phone calls!

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

aka the nieces and nephews favorite uncle, alternately brother and sister nightmare

 

And don't forget to send them home with firecrackers! 

[Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474]

[Alpo]

What do you suppose the chloroform was for?

 

[Eyesa Horg]

So you can sleep? 

[Sixgun Seamus]

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Eyesa Horg said:

So you can sleep? 

I think between the reefer and the morphine you would not have too much trouble sleeping.

 

Did you look at the way the ingredients are listed?

 

There is 4¼M of alcohol in each ounce. M? What the hell is a m? Milliliter? That would more likely say CCs, and why would it give metric amounts in an imperial amount?

 

It tends to make me believe that this was never a real patent medicine, and is simply a label somebody dreamed up for the meme.

[John Kloehr]

7 minutes ago, Alpo said:

It tends to make me believe that this was never a real patent medicine, and is simply a label somebody dreamed up for the meme.

It was real:

 

From: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/morphine-and-weed-syrup/

 

"One Night Cough Syrup, manufactured by Kohler Manufacturing Co., was indeed a real product. Newspaper ads and pamphlets from the late 1800s and early 1900s are littered with ads for the product, which claimed to stop 'that tickling in the throat … almost instantly.'"

 

I was more partial to Southern Comfort as a sipping med when I had sore throats and coughs as a young adult, A small flask would be enough to sip on for the three or four days to get past it. Just a tiny sip every now and then as needed. Did not get me wired like the old Robitussin formulas.

[Texas Joker]

Could the m stand for moles?

[John Kloehr]

1 hour ago, Texas Joker said:

Could the m stand for moles?

It could... I remember calculating moles in college. Really never had to do so in real life, ppm and percents got me through housing rare tropical fish in a soft-water planted aquarium.

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

7 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

 

And you are never asked to babysit again!

Rats!

you’re on to me!

Regards

    

Gateway Kid

[Caprock Kid]

6 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

…And the road begins…but not exactly on a cold dark night?!??

[Alpo]

[Dapper Dave]

11 hours ago, John Kloehr said:

It was real:

 

From: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/morphine-and-weed-syrup/

 

"One Night Cough Syrup, manufactured by Kohler Manufacturing Co., was indeed a real product. Newspaper ads and pamphlets from the late 1800s and early 1900s are littered with ads for the product, which claimed to stop 'that tickling in the throat … almost instantly.'"

 

I was more partial to Southern Comfort as a sipping med when I had sore throats and coughs as a young adult, A small flask would be enough to sip on for the three or four days to get past it. Just a tiny sip every now and then as needed. Did not get me wired like the old Robitussin formulas.

Gah, I hate Southern Comfort...

[John Kloehr]

44 minutes ago, Dapper Dave said:

Gah, I hate Southern Comfort...

I'm no fan either. Hate meds in general but the benefit outweighs the sickly-sweet taste. And I did treat it as a med.

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

16 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

 

  ....... are you sure about that ?    🤔

[Subdeacon Joe]

13 hours ago, Alpo said:

There is 4¼M of alcohol in each ounce. M? What the hell is a m? Milliliter? That would more likely say CCs, and why would it give metric amounts in an imperial amount?

 

Probably for "minim," which is 1/60th of a fluid drachm.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Re: Southern Comfort.   At my high school graduation the guy right in front of me had gotten very drunk on it before showing up.  As usual in things like that,  we were chivvied into line and had to stand around for another 15 or 20 minutes.  

Well, after about 5 minutes of waiting that bozo started puking.  Great...the stench of stomach acid mixed with Southern Comfort.  Since then I've not been able to abide anything about Southern Comfort  .

[Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life]

18 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

Looks like the planners for the high speed train have found new options for their expertise!

Regards

    
Gateway Kid

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

5 minutes ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

Looks like the planners for the high speed train have found new options for their expertise!

Regards

    
Gateway Kid

no, I'd bet that was their Final Exam for their Degree. 

[Alpo]

21 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said:

People keep making fun of this. But think a moment.

 

You're riding your bicycle after dark. You don't have lights, so it's not safe to ride out on the street, so you're riding on the sidewalk.

 

Or you're jogging down the sidewalk after dark. You've been running so long that you're panting and you might not notice that the sidewalk stopped.

 

And you run off into the ditch, or you ride your bike off into the ditch. Or you run into that telephone pole.

 

The sidewalk just stopping might not catch your eye. That big sign in the middle of the sidewalk probably will.

 

Is that really any different than turning into a street and saying a sign that says DEAD END? You'd probably realize that when you didn't have any road left. Yet people are happy to see those signs.

 

How about the ones that say NO THROUGH STREET? I've not seen anyone make fun of those signs.

[Eyesa Horg]

If you can't see the pole,fence, pipe, ditch, field, yellow down guys, etc. , you probably won't see the sign and bollard either. 

[Stump Water]

 

One Night Cough Syrup

It may be the mother of all dangerous cough syrups. “One Night Cough Syrup” was sold in the late 1800s, and it contained alcohol, cannabis, chloroform, and morphine.

This mixture was available over the counter and promised to eliminate your cough in one night so you could sleep. With that combination of ingredients, it’s no wonder people lost consciousness fast.

[Subdeacon Joe]

14 minutes ago, Alpo said:

that really any different than turning into a street and saying a sign that says DEAD END? You'd probably realize that when you didn't have any road left. Yet people are happy to see those signs.

 

How about the ones that say NO THROUGH STREET? I've not seen anyone make fun of those signs.

 

Those are usually at the start of the street,  or just after the last side street,  so you have a chance to not turn all the way onto the street, just make an awkward little "bloop" onto it and correct back onto the cross street, not one foot before the end.   

 

ADDED:  

So the scoffing is not at the sign itself,  but the placement of the sign.   Move it and add the words "IN XX FEET" with XX= >20' and I doubt anyone would joke about it.

Edited March 11 by Subdeacon Joe