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Sometimes its better to just live with the headache... (Original Post)
brooklynite
May 2022
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)1. No kidding! Poison is bad news in Russia. n/t
brooklynite
(94,585 posts)2. Of course, opening the window for some fresh air can help...
Emile
(22,771 posts)3. Toad poison for a hangover, okay! Must be a Russian fad.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)4. And I thought "hair of the dog" treatment was killer.
taxi
(1,896 posts)5. Apparently stores carry toad poison there.
Maybe it comes in wafers that get thrown into the pond. He may have thought the alka-seltzer he drank for his headache tasted off.
in2herbs
(2,945 posts)6. Did he really treat himself for a hangover or is this another example of
"falling out a third story window" that Putin is famous for???
taxi
(1,896 posts)7. Have you ever seen the movie North By Northwest?
The protagonists try to kill Cary Grant by making him drink a fifth then drive to his certain death. In Hamlet the drinks were poisoned. What's old is new again. Drinks are the new windows. Like a scene from both they made him drink.