Perhaps a spoiler Topick?

deedle at loop.com deedle at loop.com
Tue May 20 20:23:25 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.

Well, I recall a spirited jr. high conversation that cocacola used as a
post-coital douche would kill sperm.  Don't recall if cherry flavoring had
any advantage.  So many uses, so little education...

-- deedle





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