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[cellio]

Someday I will figure out how one properly decorates a sukkah; the only decorated ones I've seen have been done up with stuff made by the kids in the family/congregation. If I decorate, I want adult decorations. Whatever those would be. But at least the strands of small white lights (bought on December 26 one year :-) ) are pretty. And, more importantly, provide ample light to see dinner by.

So far it's a one-splinter year for the sukkah. That's pretty good for me. :-)

For bizarre reasons, yesterday I found myself needing to know how to say "purple dinosaur" in Hebrew. My dictionary was of no help on "dinosaur", so I ended up settling for "reptile". Not the same thing, but good enough in context.

I found out recently that my parents have never, in their entire lives, eaten Indian food. Wow. Chinese food was a novelty for me when I was growing up, but I thought that was just due to the local restaurant options. No, my parents just haven't explored a lot of unusual foods. So we're going to take them to an Indian restaurant in a couple weeks. (And no, I haven't asked them about sushi yet.)

I've been getting a lot of spam lately for Vicadin, whatever that is. From googling it appears to be either a painkiller or a psychadelic, but I'm not sure which. (I suppose the latter is a type of the former, for some people.) Did it just come onto the market or something?

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[estherchaya.livejournal.com]

Vicadin is a painkiller. But really, you should ask my husband about it....he's the expert! ;-)

[fiannaharpar.livejournal.com]

On one of Lake's Einstein CDs, there is just that word, in Hebrew. I'll break it out and listen to it - phoenetics to come tomorrow.

Vicadin is a painkiller. It is very old. I haven't a clue why they'd be sending much spam about it.

[ironangel]

I strongly suspect my parents have never eaten indian, and the only sushi they have had was veggie rolls I made for them once. oh, and some rolls had smoked salmon.

vicodin can be halucinogenic for some folks - it knocks me out entirely. I have heard the expression 'party like a viking!' with respect to taking vicodin and then drinking, etc.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

"Purple dinosaur" is barni (if there was more than one, being male, the plural would be barnim -- thankfully, there's only one)

Sukkah Decorations

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

There seems to be several schools. One is kid-projects. For that, you need kids and have to like soggy paper chains. (We do like them, but lack the kids.)

Another is plastic stuff - bright and gaudy milar, plastic posters of the seven holyland fruits, veggies and grains, brachot, things like that. We got a box of that with our sukkah, so that's what we're doing.

Third is rabbinical - posters of various rabbis and Chasidic rebbes, including improbable group pictures. These are all laminated, of course.

But I think what you'd want might be three dimensional versions of the fruits - plastic or *real* grapes, olives, pomegranates, wheat, barley, dates and figs hung around the top of the sukkah. Real looks better, plastic doesn't attract bugs. And maybe posters of scenes from Israel. That can be really lovely.

[geekosaur]

What's new about the drug spam is Internet-based drug "stores"; suddenly, lots of drugs which are controlled in the U.S. but not in other countries are now at least theoretically available to anyone in the U.S. via the "can import limited quantities for personal use" rule that (for example) people in Detroit used to get OTC Claritin in Windsor before the FDA declared it OTC here. The legality of doing so over the Internet instead of bringing them in as part of personal belongings is questionable, but that naturally doesn't stop either the drug outlets or the spammers hawking them....

Naturally they're pushing the sketchy stuff, because people who want to get antianxiety drugs, narcotic painkillers, and potentialy addictive sleep aids (e.g. Ambien) are more likely to go for sketchy distribution methods.

[moose]

- Vicodin is a sythetic codiene-alike called "hydrocodone", which is mixed with Tylenol (or really the generic). It is a class III restricted drug, which means you need an FDA license to prescribe it (at least in the USA).

- Vicoprofin is hydrocodone + advil

- Oxycontin is OXYcodone in a time release format. It is not the same things as HYDROcodone. PERCOSET is oxycodone + tylenol. PERCODAN is oxycodone and aspirin, iirc.

I'm violently allergic to real Codiene and to any of the Oxycodone products. I can take hydrocodone products.

And Morphine.

I've had almost all of these in the past year. Whee!