Gloy

In a message dated 26/3/06 6:00:03 pm, dstevenbryant@mindspring.com writes:

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> That’s not entirely accurate. As a commercial product the soft drink never
> actually contained cocaine, it was supposedly made with coca leaves but not
> pure cocaine. However for many many years, it was not unusual for some MDs to
> prescribe a Coke with dope and have a pharmacist supply the doped product by
> prescription only. I know one of my great aunts that received those treatments
> back in the ‘50s.
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> There is also the story that Coke makes a good spermacide, aka. CCD; for
> that a Pepsi might work just as well, but I would never drink a Pepsi. Which
> brings me to this story, getting the topic back to alternative processes, that a
> 7-Up can be used to clear plt/pld prints.
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Don

The BBC's Today programme ran an item on the centenary  of Coca Cola leaving
'cocaine' out of their cola. The spermicide ipoint came up during the item; I
almost choked om my porridge. The spermicidal effect resulted from the
phosphoric acid in the drink of which I as aware for a different reason.

Some years ago, i was asked by a local college to demonstrate eight different
'alternative' processes between 1 PM and 8 PM. I went through Wedgwood and
salt and albumen and gum and bromoil and kallitype and cyanotype, leaving
platinum to last. Around 7.30, I realised that I had left my potassium oxalate back
at the studio, The chemistry labs were closed. I thought that I was going to
have to develop in distilled water but then, remembering that phosphoric acid
is a platinum developer, I sent someone to get me a can of Diet Pepsi from the
vending machine. It worked a treat. I still have the print in my teaching
portfolio seem to remember that I used 7-Up to clear it.

There was a man who drank eight Cokes but burped 7-UP.

Terry
Received on Sun Mar 26 11:53:16 2006