The inspiration for some of history's greatest speeches has come from some really WEIRD places.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Kali]

1. heh

[Mopar151]

2. I worked with a submariner

Who smuggled some "real" absinthe home in a torpedo tube. His instructions on serving: "First, you take all your cars to Mom's house on the east side, and lock them up. Then take all the keys to your friends house on the west side. Take a cab home. Nail all the doors shut from the outside! Climb in through the window, and THEN you can start the party!"

[MiddleFingerMom]

3. I read a description of the absinthe experience written by some famous American writer...

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... living in France (I THINK it was the first half of the 20th century) and it seemed
REALLY unpleasant (nausea, dizziness, blurry, woozy).
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It reminded me very much of accounts I have read of huffing some aerosols -- both
accounts made me wonder why anyone would go for that -- let alone more than
once.
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I tried almost everything I encountered "growing up", but absinthe is probably one of
the few things that I would have turned down if I had ever had the opportunity to
experience it.
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[Demoiselle]

4. Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder.

Do you have any idea how long I have waited to perpetrate that pun?

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. It does seem designed to make folks do the most unsavory of things.