Perhaps a spoiler Topick?

Gordy Thompson gordy at nytimes.com
Tue May 20 12:46:23 CDT 1997


At 09:38 AM 5/20/97 EST, RICHARD ROMEO wrote (quoting "Jimmy"):
>I have a dim association of cherry cokes with something sexual.  Maybe 
>I'm
>just thinking of the "cherry" term, but it seems to me there was 
>something
>of an urban myth circulating in my junior high days that cherry cokes 
>made
>girls horny.  Anyone else have this faint recollection, or anything like
>it?
>Dimly,
>Jimmy
>--------------------------------------------
>I hear the term cherrycoke, you know I think really fresh Peruvian 
>flaked--living in the past, what can I say?

	Maybe a corruption of one of my favorite Urban Legends of the '50s, that
lacing your date's Coke with aspirin would make her horny. I heard it again
years later as "...would make her pass out", which apparently was the Next
Best Thing for some foax.


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