There *is* a line.
Those of you who follow my Onyx Court posts know how much I glory in finding random bits of weird history I can work into my tale.
In case you were wondering, it is possible for something to be too weird for me to include.
Those of you who follow my Onyx Court posts know how much I glory in finding random bits of weird history I can work into my tale.
In case you were wondering, it is possible for something to be too weird for me to include.
It disturbs me that I already knew about that way of “resuscitating drowning victims”. It’s like the lecture which we learned about puppy fumigation in. :/
. . . I had to stop and consider whether I wanted to google that or not.
Which I did, and I’m still confused. Mostly because the only ref I could find was in an LJ comment thread. Apparently you used a puppy to fumigate a person for some disease or other?
It was apparently an ancient Greek cure for “wandering womb”. I forget the latter specifics because I, like the rest of the Greek Society class, was having a funny aneurysm moment at the image of fumigating a person with a puppy – and the mention that you had to use a puppy as an adult dog was too dry.
I saw the bit about the adult dog, but no that it was a treatment for hysteria.
Should I not ask how the puppy was employed in fumigation?
So the phrase “stop blowing smoke up my ass” is quite possibly one that originated as a literal description rather than a figure of speech. Oh my.
O_O
I was thinking that very thought… o_O
Ok, I think you and your commentators should win an award for “the most imagination-boggling” post ever…*g*
Glenda L.