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[LuckyCharms]

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[erronis]

1. You can't buy saltpeter easily anymore - after the RW assholes blew up the Murrah Building

I was told that it was added to our orange juice in school to cut down on our onanism (masturbation).

Just a fun fact: Even birds do it. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/01/masturbation-birds-natural-healthy-behaviour-study

[LuckyCharms]

2. Did it work?

[erronis]

3. Just as well as with the monks in the monastaries (and I'll assume the convents).

Nature will be nature.

[LuckyCharms]

4. Things are so different today...

The pharmacy had a back entrance. All of the chemicals were on some shelves by the back door, right next to the TV tube testing machine. We would go in and buy the saltpeter. The pharmacist would ask "What do you boys need this for".

We'd say "Smoke bombs".

The pharmacist would just shrug and say "OK" Have fun.