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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
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Russian scientists who invented hangover cure make pill that keeps you drunk
The makers of RU-21, the "miracle" hangover cure reputedly developed for Soviet spies, have developed a product to keep you drunk.
Spirit Sciences, which is based in California but has research facilities in Russia employing scientists who once worked on secret programmes for the Kremlin, have christened the new product RU-21 Red. If you take a tablet you need less alcohol to stay drunk, they claim. Emil Chiabery, a co-founder of the company, told The Telegraph from his offices in Los Angeles: "I never drink and there's no personal story. But RU-21 Red prolongs drunkenness and enhances intoxication.'' RU-21, the company's original product, is sold as a natural dietary supplement in the US and Britain. It officially claims to help prevent long-term diseases associated with moderate alcohol intake. But among its ingredients are acids that are natural anti-oxidants and reportedly rid the body of some of the harmful by-products of alcohol breakdown that lead to hangovers. The new pill, which contains grapevine extracts intended to slow down the oxidation of alcohol and keep the user drunk, has been criticised. The weight of criticism means the company may now reconsider introducing it to the market. Mr Chiabery, who was born in what was then the Soviet republic of Georgia, said: "I'm not sure I'm going to market it in the USA. I don't want it to become a party drug. We are for responsible drinking." The company makes no secret of the fact that its hangover cure is aimed at party-goers anxious to avoid the debilitating morning-after effects of heavy drinking. The company sponsors concerts and pop groups. The product, which is marketed with a video showing KGB types in the shadow of the Kremlin handing over a briefcase of money in exchange for the secret formula, earns hundreds of thousands of pounds a year in sales in the US. Go me! This means drunkness without having the most common side effect:  + + + =  Cheers 
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
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Re: Russian scientists who invented hangover cure make pill that keeps you drunk
For the country that put the first satellite in space, well actually made all the first in space besides landing on the moon, you would've expected their scientific talent to be put to better use!
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"Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics." --Charles Peguy "Love for a man's own nation must not make a man into a wild animal, which tears down and provokes revenge; it must make him more noble, so that he can gain the respect and love of other nations for his nation. Therefore love toward your own nation is not contradictory to love for the whole of mankind; they complement each other. All of the nations are children of God." --Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, 1938
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Yeah, Perun, they should relocate the scientists who worked on these pharmaceutic products to go and create a better tractor.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Personally, I think this should earn someone a Nobel Prize
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Yup, would certainly help my finances
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The traditions of the Irish people are the oldest of any race in Europe north and west of the Alps, and they themselves are the longest settled on their own soil - Edmund Curtis (A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922) The Irish are one of the most ancient nations that I know of at this end of the world, and are from as mighty a race as the world ever brought forth. For it is certain that Ireland hath had the use of letters very anciently and long before England; that they had letters anciently is nothing doubtful, for the Saxons of England are said to have their letters and learning, and learned men, from the Irish. - Edmund Spenser (writer, and British Government Official in Ireland, AD 1596). The renaissance began in Ireland seven hundred years before it was known in Italy. And Armagh, the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, was at one time the metropolis of civilisation. - Arsene Darmesteter, Professor of Old French and Literature Ireland can indeed lay claim to a great past; she can not only boast of having been the birthplace and abode of high culture in the fifth and sixth centuries . . . but also of having made strenous efforts in the seventh and up to the tenth century to spread her learning among the German and Romance peoples, thus forming the actual fountain of our present continental civilisation. - Heinrich Zimmer, Professor of Celtic and Sanskrit, Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Economics, medicine, and maybe even the peace prize as well.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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The longer you're drunk, the longer you're agressive.  Or maybe just drunk... Varies from man to man.
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Well, what about boots, fists, knives, boxers, stones, wood, chains...? Everything comes handy.
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________ "There are no facts, only interpretations." "Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." ________ "Human existence must be a kind of error...it may be said of it, 'it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens'. " ________
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
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I'm telling you.
I think it's time for me to go to sleep. Got all wet today from the snow / snow blizzard that struck Zagreb today, and am feeling lowsy. And I just went to buy some guitar strings and to drink some milk with a colleaguesse ( oh, we have a new word here ) in a bar. Good night Bocian.
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________ "There are no facts, only interpretations." "Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." ________ "Human existence must be a kind of error...it may be said of it, 'it is bad today and every day it will get worse, until the worst of all happens'. " ________
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Thursday, February 24th, 2005
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If you can't get Nobel, get Guinness...
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
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I don't get it. Who wants to feel drunk? A pill to stop you getting drunk, to turn alcohol to sugar instead of nasty aldehydes or stop the dehydration process is a better idea.
Not every drunk is aggressive. A lot are over friendly or fall into sleep.
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
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