# Freak Power, Dangerous Drugs, and Hunter S. Thompson. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 19, 2000, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837 "2000-11-19T09:59:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/1 "2000-11-19T09:59:57Z")
Is there any Hunter S. Thompson fans here? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/2 "2000-11-19T11:23:46Z")
yep ---
**Author:** ![Stimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Stimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/3 "2000-11-19T14:13:13Z")
yes, me also ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/4 "2000-11-19T16:27:04Z")
Who wants to know/ Are you a member of THE PROCESS? Are you SAMOAN? Or a f\*\*\*ing COP? Stay back! There are giant lizards all over the place! Captain Zeep? šŸ˜• ---
**Author:** ![absoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@absoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/absoul)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/5 "2000-11-19T21:22:32Z")
ā€œWe had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-coloured uppers, downers, screamers, laughersā€¦ also a quart of tequila, quart of rum, case of beer, pint of raw ether, two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless, and irresponsible, and depraved, than a man in the depths of an ether bingeā€¦ā€ ---
**Author:** ![Stimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Stimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/6 "2000-11-19T21:35:55Z")
ā€˜As your attorney I advise you to drive at top speed. Itā€™ll be a goddamn miracle if we make it there before you turn into a wild animal.ā€™šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/7 "2000-11-19T21:45:42Z")
Just wait till the poor bastatd sees the bats. ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/8 "2000-11-20T00:49:58Z")
So far Iā€™ve readā€¦ Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas The Rum Diary Hellā€™s Angels and Iā€™m reading Fear and Loathing: On The Campaign Trail '72 Is there any books one would recommend? Anyways, hereā€™s a link to HSTā€™s obituary for Richard Nixon > **['He Was a Crook'](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/)** > > Hunter S. Thompson'sĀ scathing obituary of Nixon ---
**Author:** ![Junior\_Spaceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Junior\_Spaceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Junior_Spaceman)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/9 "2000-11-20T01:37:10Z")
Iā€™m late to the game, only getting the chance to read the first fifty pages of ā€˜Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasā€™ (it was in a library, and they wouldnā€™t let me borrow it), but boy, is that one hell of a funny read. Stimpyā€™s already taken my favourite line from it :). HenrySpencer ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@The\_Raven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/10 "2000-11-20T04:28:53Z")
The book Iā€™ve lent out to the most people ever was Hunter S Thompsonā€™s The Great Shark Hunt. Its a large collection of stuff. That and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are the only books of mine that Iā€™ve lent out reguarly, actually now that I come to think of it. Strange, I just rewatched the movie last night. \ ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/11 "2000-11-20T18:30:21Z")
What, ten posts and nobodyā€™s done ā€œWe were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.ā€? Right up there with ā€œCall me Ishmaelā€. Havok, actually Hellā€™s Angels" and ā€œfear and Loathing on the Campiagn Trailā€ are the onesIā€™d recomend. But I youā€™ve read them, Iā€™ll recomend them to everybody else. ---
**Author:** ![BF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b5ac83/32.png) [@BF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BF)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2000, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/12 "2000-11-20T18:57:56Z")
Iā€™d guess you can say I amā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![filthy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@filthy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filthy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/13 "2000-11-21T01:16:29Z")
And let us not forget Raoul Duke, the inventor of the Mojo Wire. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/14 "2000-11-21T02:51:16Z")
Try _The Curse Of Lono_. Bombs, Hawaii, 50,000 deranged Japanese Yuppies running like Whorehounds past the Pearl Harbour Naval Base on the anniversry of the start of WW2ā€” fishing. Very cool šŸ†’ ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/15 "2000-11-21T14:14:20Z")
The Vincent Black Shadow. Weā€™re the factory team. Can we handle that much torque? Absolutely. OK which one of you yellow chicken suckers wants to get cut? ---
**Author:** ![Stimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Stimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stimpy)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/16 "2000-11-21T17:45:40Z")
Youā€™re getting on that plane Tommy the Cat, and no milk to baby you smoothly on your jaunt. Kiss the feet of the Pope and smoke his eyelidsā€¦ etc. etc. except the exit. Can anyone recommend a decent (or descent or even dissent) Hunter site?? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/17 "2000-11-21T23:06:58Z")
Note to self- Must re-read ā€œThe Great Shark Huntā€ Must lay hands on any Hunter S. that I have not yet read Must have another glass of plum wine. ---
**Author:** ![jcgmoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a9adbd/32.png) [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/18 "2000-11-22T00:46:01Z")
For a regular fix of HST you guys should check out [this site](http://espn.go.com/page2/) every Monday. The good doctor is writing a column entitled _Hey Rube_. Good bare-chested shot of him throwing a football. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/19 "2000-11-22T01:05:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Havok \* > \*\*So far Iā€™ve readā€¦ > HSTā€™s obituary for Richard Nixon > \*\* Wow. And the meanest thing I ever said about Nixon was that I hoped somepne remembered to drive a stake through his black heart before they screwed the lid down on his coffin. ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837/20 "2000-11-22T01:19:39Z")
Thereā€™s one scene at the beginning of ā€œā€¦on the campaign trailā€ where the newspaper guy in DC is delivering his paper one morning and HST is going to stop him which ends in, ā€œbut before I could tell him the dogs were already upon himā€ (paraphrase - left my book at my friendā€™s place). I love that image! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/freak-power-dangerous-drugs-and-hunter-s-thompson/41837.md?page=2)