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- From: STella@thelema.uucp (STella)
- Subject: Re: FIZZIES (was: Re: Cheese popcorn)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.141910.26708@thelema.uucp>
- Organization: Idiosyncratic Anarchic Order
- References: <1992Dec22.214131.22221@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec23.192744.10356@nsscmail.att.com> <1992Dec24.045535.26040@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 14:19:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.045535.26040@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
- >>3) Also misses...
-
- >>Fizzies!!
-
- >>Anybody else remember them? Came on a foil-backed card of eight (I
- >>think); you dropped one in a glass of water, and like an Alka-Seltzer(TM)
- >>it would fizz into a drink, but of whatever flavor tablets you bought.
-
- Oh ghod, FIZZIES!!! Useful when the gal down the street wanted to
- play "first communion"; dressed in my dad's bathrobe and whatever
- other priestly drag we could muster, I'd talk in piglatin for a while,
- then give her a host, placed carefully on the tongue. Usually a
- saltine or oyster cracker, once she told me that it was blasphemous to
- chew the host (wonderful sign for a party "Please do not chew the
- host", but at our house, we'd take out the third word), I had the idea
- of using something that wouldn't require chewing. After she received
- the Holy Fizzie, she never pestered me to play communion with her
- again. But ghod, she looked like the holy ghost was giving her
- mouth-to-mouth, shrieking in tongues and spewing purple (well, it WAS
- communion, and even though RCCs don't get the wine, it seemed the best
- choice) foam. Some even came out of her NOSE, which I thought both
- decorative and anatomically unlikely, not yet having discovered that
- one can get there from here.
-
- >I suppose you also had "Happy Fizzies parties" as well?
-
- And then there were the ducks in East Lansing. (This is just about
- three statutes of limitations ago.) I became aware that local campus
- ordinances were such as to make it more of a beef ($50 versus $25, if
- memory serves) to molest the ducks in the creek than to harass a coed.
-
- This pissed me off, somewhat. So I took my absolutely last EVER
- Fizzies (I had hoarded those puppies for YEARS. Never knew what for
- till this day), mostly grape, but a few cola, orange, and lime, broke
- them into pieces, stuck them in my pocket, and strolled down to the
- ducks. Chummed with a couple slices of bread, and then tried a bit of
- fizzie. Didn't even need to hide it in bread -- just toss, and they'd
- gobble it RIGHT down.
-
- Ghod, when the gas has started, it is a sight to enjoy. The average
- duck flutters its wings, squawks in desperation, and best of all,
- backs around at random to escape the gouts of brightly colored
- foam issuing from its beak. Several of these ducks, all backing
- around in frantic foaming discontent, are even better.
-
- It may be that seagulls can't burp (wouldn't know, never burped one),
- but ducks both can and (after a happy fizzie party) DO. In
- technicolor.
-
- STella@xanadu.com 1016 E. El Camino Real, #302, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
- STella%thelema.uucp@dec.com Don't blame me, I voted Libertarian!
-