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Wherein I whine about my cold instead of Steve Jobs’ death. Rest in peace, you wonderful sonsabitch. I’ll run my iPhone at half mast today in your honor. That’s at two and a half signal bars, which is actually one and a half more signal bars than I’m used to. | Fetch My Flying Monkeys
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— Laura

I’m getting a cold or malaria or TB or something and it’s pissing me off because the South Carolina State Fair starts next week and I want to eat my weight in fair food and if I’m all sick and snotty I won’t be able to and that sucks. I didn’t have any “cold medicine” in the house but I did find a few Benadryl tablets shoved behind the hydrogen peroxide bottle. They had an expiration date of May 2001 stamped on them but I took them anyway. I hope there are no adverse effects, but I think I have built-up my immunity to expired drugs over the years, so I should be ok. I seriously need to restock my medicine cabinet. I don’t even know what hydrogen peroxide is used for and I think I spotted a bottle of bloodletting leeches on the top shelf. That’s how old the shit is in there. It’s shocking that I haven’t been found unconscious on my bathroom floor by now, clutching an empty bottle of Pamprin circa. 1975. I mean, without gin in my system.

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83 Responses to Wherein I whine about my cold instead of Steve Jobs’ death. Rest in peace, you wonderful sonsabitch. I’ll run my iPhone at half mast today in your honor. That’s at two and a half signal bars, which is actually one and a half more signal bars than I’m used to.

  1. Mr. Bingley says:

    I have some penicillin from the 70s too. I mean, it’s made from mold, how can it go “bad”?

  2. Joe the Blog Stalker says:

    I wondered how you were handling the news of Steve’s death.

  3. Michelle says:

    I hope you don’t get sick. Fair food is awesome and it would be a bitch if you couldn’t enjoy any.

  4. Jennifer says:

    LOL! I hope you’re feeling better! Stay away from 70′s Pamprin! LOL!

  5. Yabu says:

    Since you’re a driver of almost iEverything, that is a noble deed. He was an innovator, fo sho. I loves my iThings. I use hydrogen peroxide to clean the blades on my knives and swords. Works every time.

  6. Tink says:

    Around here, right now, the RAGWEED is in full bloom. I always have NyQuil, Benadryl and Theraflu in the house and I take one every night just so I can breath for more than 4 hours at a time cuz once I lay down my head fills with snott. So maybe your just full of RAGWEED and not getting rabies or anything serious….

  7. Feel better, woman. There are dead hookers to stuff in your trunk.

  8. Jena says:

    Girl, take the generic allergy pills, Allegra or Zyrtec. And a generic muscinex. NOT benadryl! Hope you get to eat your weight in fair food!

  9. Jess says:

    I have a friend that chugged an entire bottle of Tobasco sauce in an attempt to relieve his cold symptoms. Six hours later,,,,yep, he still had the symptoms and the worry of hash marks in his boxers. So, Tobasco doesn’t work.

    I’ve heard you can soak peanut in gin and it’s good for a cold….or is it you can soak raisens in gin and it’s good for arthritis? It doesn’t matter, the secret is alcohol. That’s what cures anything except alcoholism.

    • Laura says:

      And liver failure.

      Ha! Who the hell would actually drink a bottle of tobasco? That’s insane. I bet his butt hole hurt for weeks, maybe months. Why am I talking about a stranger’s rectum? How bout them Dodgers? Okay, I don’t even know anything about a Dodger. Are there still the Dodgers? Nevermind.

      • Jess says:

        He suffered and, since that was way back when we didn’t have anything but charcoal and papyrus to record the event, there was no cell phone video to put on Youtube.

        Best cold remedy I ever used was: One Vicodon; a shot of Nyquil; a shot of bourbon and approximately 96 hours of sleep. I was completely cured when I woke in the hospital

  10. Maybe medicine is like wine, and gets better as it ages. Hope you feel better soon!

  11. Steve Jobs invented apples??? I thought that was Eve or Johnny Appleseed or Paula Dean!

    On the medical side, the voices in my head just told me that mixing gin and Pamprin may cause a person to write blogs about whining, flying monkeys and/or George Clooney while craving mass quantities of fair food but they often exagerate, especially the one that sounds like Donald Duck.

    • Laura says:

      HA! That explains the voices!!

      Paula Deen invented butter, by the way.

      • Lizzybeth says:

        Mmmmmmm, buuuuuuutttterrrrrr. And bacon! There is a fair in Texas where they deep-fry sticks of butter. But I digress… Deep-fried anything helps cure all kinds of nasal rabies, or so I’m told.

        • Laura says:

          I think you’re right.

          • Deep fried butter wrapped in bacon…MMMMMMMMM! I figure I’m good for about 3 or 4 helpings and a side of deep fried Oreos since my doc just told me my good cholesterol was too good!

            That made me take a second look at the medical credentials on his office wall…. with my glasses on… but he’s the doc and I’m the crash test dummy for the pharmaceuticals.

            Anyway,I figure anyone who earned a medical degree from the Mountain Empire Institute for the Not Quite Right, School of Astrophysics, Neurosurgery, Cosmetology, Exotic Dance, Barber College, Tattoo Parlor & Bait Shop in beautiful no left turn, West Virginia oughta know what he’s talkin’ about…….right?

            Please tell me that’s right….please!!!

            Sorry about the long reply….the voices were at it again.

          • Laura says:

            I hope you got a tattoo.

  12. Hoody Hoo says:

    when I worked at the health food joint, they told us vitamins and shit were still “good” for like 2 years after their expiration date… 10 years, not so much. Tie a note with some money in it to one of Jack’s little outfits and send his ass to Rite-Aid!

  13. Nicole says:

    Feel better, girl. There be food to eat!

  14. Drugs from the ’70s? Hell, they don’t even make the drugs I took in the ’70s anymore. No quaaludes, no seconal.
    But I’m pretty sure you can still get Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog. That stuff never expires.

  15. Tea says:

    I read about people eating deep fried butter on a stick at State Fairs. I haven’t ever done that, so please take your expired pills and get better and see if that’s available at your fair.

  16. Curtal Friar says:

    Hmmm…tell me you don’t have a jar of sterilized tapeworms in the back of your cabinet.

  17. I have a cold too, and it has hung around for over a week. I want to stab it with a pen…or at least give it to my husband so he quits telling me to stop coughing at 2am. I took some expired cold medicine and so far I haven’t died, or grown a thrid eye…yet.

  18. Fair food cures everything, even rabies.

    This is why fair food needs to be eaten year-round.

  19. cricket says:

    I got nothing smart assed to say. Job’s death is a major bummer. If he’s like any other visionary he still had ideas brewing. Would have been cool to see what else he could come up with in another twenty years.

    I don’t even drink milk expired one day past the due date. All it took was once for me to learn that lesson. Heaving in a kitchen sink is not good.

  20. cricket says:

    OH, for Pete’s sake. see how bummed I am? I totally posted that last part under the wrong post.

  21. Be careful with those expired medicines. I’m betting that they will be the key to time travel.

  22. Amanda says:

    Drink more gin. Alcohol fixes things. Natural cleanser.

  23. Jan says:

    Bummer about Jobs. When he retired in August, I though “uh oh, workaholic like him? very not good.” I think my ipad wept.

  24. Jeffro says:

    Go ahead and eat all that fair food. It’ll burn that shit cold right outta ya. Sear it deader than hell.

  25. Larry says:

    Steve Jobs will be missed.

    Something tells me that you would never be found without gin in your system somewhere.

  26. CGHill says:

    Last year, I happened upon a ten-year-old bottle of painkillers, and, well, over the next few months I saw that they were disposed of in a nonwasteful manner.

    Indistinguishable from the fresh stuff, I’d say.

  27. iampisspot says:

    I used an expired tube of deep-heat cream once on my legs. I swear to god, I very nearly fried them from the inside out.

    Expired drugs – pff.
    Expired deep-heat cream: Throw it in the goddamn bin.

    • Laura says:

      HAHA! Instead of throwing it in the bin, you could use it as a weapon. See? I’m always thinking about defense. This is why I’m pretty certain I’ll survive the zombie apocalypse. I hope so anyway.

  28. I don’t think expired drugs are dangerous, per se, they’re just less effective. SO basically you just have to double the dose for every year over the expirey date. Try that.

  29. Cheryl says:

    Your Benadryl expiration date is the same as the one on the mayonnaise jar in the back of my frig. I actually cleaned my fridge not long ago and found that most of the stuff in it was from the late 90′s.

    RIP Steve Jobs!

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