Who would have thought my shriveled heart/ Could have recovered greenness? It was gone/ Quite underground; as flowers depart/ To see their mother-root when they have blown;/ Where they together/ All the hard weather/ Dead to the world, keep house unknown. -George Herbert
Friday, December 4, 2009
Vodka Pills and Venn Diagrams
Just found this post on one of the occasionally wonderful First Things blogs. Apparently a Russian scientist developed a way to turn alcohol into a powder that could be stored in pills. While this sounds like an absolutely terrible idea, it did have the happy consequence of producing this great opening sentence to a post with the equally great title "How to Get Drunk Like George Jetson", "If you drew a Venn diagram of 'Things you wash down with orange juice' and 'Things the world doesn't need', this would be in the center: vodka in a pill form."
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