# It's the pseudoephedrine talking.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 1999, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597 "1999-09-09T04:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/no_me_ayudes_compadre/32/5224_2.png) [@No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Me_Ayudes_Compadre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/1 "1999-09-09T04:50:00Z")
On the news tonight, telejournalists getting their underwear in knots because an American owns international copyright to the Mexican National Anthem. The Boxers were a pretty ruthless bunch, decapitating all those folks. The Harlekinpinscher is a funny looking dog. My wife made me a home remedy for my cough… a tea made of honey, cinnamon, garlic, lime peels and bougainville leaves. Would’ve been easier to take if not for the lime peels–very bitter. I miss Matt’s Chocolate Chip Cookies and Kaufman’s bagels. I don’t want to be labeled a tax protester, but I think it’s a reasonable argument that employment is a barter of services and thus not a taxable transation. It’s probably a good thing that MacArthur didn’t make it to president. No one here said they’d like to see a picture of me or have coffee with me ::sniff:: * * * “Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?” ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/2 "1999-09-09T10:53:00Z")
When shrimps learn to whistle. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/3 "1999-09-09T12:39:00Z")
Hey El, come on up! I’ll buy ya a cup of joe and you can help me learn Spanish! (I’m going to start taking it at the local community college next semester). ---
**Author:** ![No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/no_me_ayudes_compadre/32/5224_2.png) [@No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Me_Ayudes_Compadre)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/4 "1999-09-09T13:39:00Z")
{{{{{{BunnyGirl}}}}}} Ummmmm, sunbear - I may need more Sudafed, but I think I’m missing something… ---
**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/5 "1999-09-09T15:25:00Z")
I woke up this morning with a cold, so I wanted to take some medicine. But I didn’t want to drive while impaired, so I waited 'til I got to work before taking the drugs. The effects of the medication are now starting to dissipate, and I’m looking at the first bits of code I wrote this morning. I don’t know whether to be horrified that I actually wrote such a terse, obfuscated mess, or astonished that it works so efficiently. * * * Of course I don’t fit in; I’m part of a better puzzle. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/6 "1999-09-09T15:30:00Z")
Well, there ya go AuraSeer; it just goes to prove the old adage, “Better living through chemistry.” * * * **Abstainer:** _a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure._ **- Ambrose Bierce** ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 1999, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/7 "1999-09-09T23:28:00Z")
You said it was yhe sudafed talking! Actually that(shrimps whistling) was a Krushchev quote on something or other, in other words “when hell freezes over.” ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Hall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ebca7d/32.png) [@Rich\_Hall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Hall)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 1999, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-the-pseudoephedrine-talking/7597/8 "1999-09-10T11:04:00Z")
I believe old Khrushchev was commenting(in the UN) on warships in the Bosporus, with “When Shrimp(s) learn to whistle”. Loco: Nobody wanted to have coffee with me either. I just sit at the bar in airports, where I spend a lot of time, so I don’t have to drink alone.