There *is* a line.

[swan_tower]

Those of you who follow my Onyx Court posts know how much I glory in finding random bits of weird history I can work into my tale.

In case you were wondering, it is possible for something to be too weird for me to include.

Comments

[catherinehaines.livejournal.com]

It disturbs me that I already knew about that way of "resuscitating drowning victims". It's like the lecture which we learned about puppy fumigation in. :/

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

. . . I had to stop and consider whether I wanted to google that or not.

Which I did, and I'm still confused. Mostly because the only ref I could find was in an LJ comment thread. Apparently you used a puppy to fumigate a person for some disease or other?

[catherinehaines.livejournal.com]

It was apparently an ancient Greek cure for "wandering womb". I forget the latter specifics because I, like the rest of the Greek Society class, was having a funny aneurysm moment at the image of fumigating a person with a puppy - and the mention that you had to use a puppy as an adult dog was too dry.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I saw the bit about the adult dog, but no that it was a treatment for hysteria.

Should I not ask how the puppy was employed in fumigation?

[ckd]

So the phrase "stop blowing smoke up my ass" is quite possibly one that originated as a literal description rather than a figure of speech. Oh my.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

O_O

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

I was thinking that very thought... o_O

[keris45.livejournal.com]

Ok, I think you and your commentators should win an award for "the most imagination-boggling" post ever...*g*

Glenda L.