I just had an awesome idea for a practical joke on the parents of a toddler.
The soap, called Shower Shock, supplies the caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee per wash, with the stimulant absorbed naturally through the skin
"Naturally" doesn't seem like quite the right word there.
My coworker gave me some of this. Unfortunately, it was the very week I quit caffeine.
I just can't imagine tinkering with my daily worship ritual of coffee. It sounds like a nicotine patch.
This reminds me of when I used to work at the Peet's Coffee roasting plant. One of my jobs was to run the bulk grinder. I'd sit under a hopper of ground coffee weighing out 1lb bags, and a puff of coffee would fly out of it every time I kicked the pedal. I'd come home covered in coffee.
And the shower was its own percolator. Mmmmm.
soap : coffee :: alcohol-infused soap : vodka
The meaning of that analogy depends upon whether you take your shower before or after your morning coffee.
NCProsecutor just informed me: no mo' Limbo.
9: Well at least they've come to a decision. It must have been very wearing on limbo's nerves to be in, um, limbo for so long.
(At first I thought the link would lead to an article about the game where you go under the stick being banned from schools or something)
4: I'm with you. No caffeine soap ever, nor am I going to chew on a NoDoz while the computer boots up. Some rituals should be sacred, and none of those have anything to do with deities.
the game where you go under the stick
If you do a google image search on "limbo" with SafeSearch off, it will make more sense why the Church would want to ban it.
12: Oh, I just laughed so hard that the woman in the office next to me poked her head in to find out why. ALT-TAB!
When I heard the news this morning I understood it to mean the church was doing away with Limbaugh, and I was quietly pleased.
15: Yeah well I'm trying to make that comment work properly, I still haven't quite got it. Maybe Roy will post on this and I'll have another chance. (The assonance has been running through my head all week because I've been listening very heavily to Robyn Hitchcock's "Moss Elixir"; in the song "The Devil's Radio" he pronounces Limbaugh's name to sound exactly like "limbo", and rhymes it with "bimbo".)
It's absorbed through your skin? Does that work for other drugs? So much for the argument that you didn't inhale. Or in this case, that you don't swallow.
16: Third time's the charm? Good luck!
I had a bar of this once. It didn't seem to work, in that I tried using it and *not* having my morning cup of coffee, and I got a caffiene-withdrawal headache right on schedule.
SP -- kind of talking out my ass here but I don't think absorbing drugs through your skin is cost-effective in general -- like that the amount of active ingredient required to get you high is greater than it would be if you're absorbing it through your lungs or sinus, or injecting it.
Two cups of coffee per wash? That sounds like kind of a lot of caffeine.
20: Pretty much, yeah. People do it (it's called a "contact high"), but not very often because it's so inefficient. We should probably let the people who actually know about drugs chime in, though.
20: i think it depends on the drug. some are mostly destroyed in the GI track.
Even if it works, which I doubt, it seems like it's just trying too hard. I don't have time to buy a cup of coffee! Go go go! Live! Fast! Zoom! The person to whom this soap would appeal probably ought to be cutting back on the caffeine, not seeking greater efficiency in its administration.
Still, its existence gives me reason to reflect on the $300-refund episode of Futurama and I thank it for that.
22 -- Never heard "contact high" used with that meaning -- I have used it and heard it used to mean the good, loose feeling that you get from being around people who are high (one which is certainly enhanced by residual smoke in the air you're breathing). Also it is a fabulously awesome song by Ike and Tina Turner.
(B side of "I Want To Take You Higher")
25: What about the Lucy Liu-bot episode? I still dream of caffeinated bacon sometimes, in my quiet wistful moments.
Robyn Hitchcock's "Moss Elixir"
i love that verse.
Limbaugh
he was talking through a bimbo
but don't touch that dial
or that hateful smile...
Kate said
"the flowers of intolerance and hatred
are blooming kindof early this year.
someone's been watering them"
20: It doesn't seem to work as a caffeine delivery system at all:
http://www.cbc.ca/streetcents/guide/2005/03/s02_01.html
They need add a DMSO carrier.
Yeah -- the whole record is pretty fantastic. Do you have any opinion as to the meaning of the lyric, "A happy bird is a filthy bird"?
9 Now there is a Rush.
Ooops, wrong limbo.
This is off-topic, but I'm having an argument with my old roommate about these awful murders in Knoxville back in January (google Channon Christian), and she claims that because it was black-on-white crime it got/is getting no national publicity but "imagine if the races were r3v3rsed!1!"
While she's crazy and has kind of a persecution complex, she did make me think: in this age of Missing White Girl, why did I (the most web-connected person I know) not know about these murders (of two very good-looking white people)? Should I be glad that it didn't? I'm confused.
Careful on the googling, though, there's some pretty nasty local commentary out there.
33 -- your old roommate appears to have a troubled relationship with reality. Media coverage of white people murdered (or otherwise harmed) by nonwhite people is hardly nonexistent, or even less intense than coverage of nonwhites injured by whites.
DMSO is cheating- heck, if you use DMSO you can get drunk by sticking your finger in a shot of vodka.
35: I like to think of Unfogged as a Clwnership Society
Damn, damn! I was meaning "a Clwpnership Society" of course. Way to fuck up the joke.
28: That episode is pretty damned awesome.
Wouldn't the effectiveness of the delivery system also depend on showering habits? For example, the people who get wet, step back and lather, then rinse would get more than the under-the-head wash-rinsers.
I like to think of Unfogged as "a Clwpnership Society"
Not enough Welshmen for a name like that.
43: Yup, assuming there's any significant delivery at all. Also, not all skin is equal in its ability to absorb stuff. I'm figuring that if it were at all practical there would have been a kiddie multi-vitamin shampoo out long ago.
Not all drugs are equally amenable to dermal absorption, either.
45, 46 - That's what I was thinking. For some reason, I remember something on the Discovery Channel about the eyelids being a particularly good place to put topical medication. (And unless I'm misremembering, caffeine was the drug they were testing.)
43:
the under-the-head wash-rinsers.
ATM.
eb has the vision -- he can see into the future and detect what is to come!
Thanks deleter of spam -- at least we will have our memories...
Hey, if that was the Chinese Diabetes society, I have Chinese diabetes.