Mickey Finns&anaesthesia

A Mickey Finn is an unexpected/unwanted sleeping draught. Think date rape drug although it's not necessarily for the purposes of attacking someone sexually (in fact, in old movies, it's usually just to knock someone out).

Anaesthesia is administered by a doctor when you're undergoing an operation. I believe the oldest form of anaesthesia used (and it's not really used any more) was ether. There can also be anaesthesia that kind of half knocks you out but doesn't really make you sleep, like nitrous oxide (laughing gas), which we often get at the dentist's office because you need to be conscious enough to be able to respond to a dentist's requests to open your mouth wider.

A sleeping draught? Are you writing from the nineteenth century?

she's been reading Spendi again...

Curious, how did it get the name Mickey Finn?

From the effects caused by reading Finn's posts.

Probably some big Mick named Finn that could put someone to sleep with one punch.

I dunno. What's your guess?

The Mickey Finn was invented in Chicago, like saganaki, the Italian beef sandwich, Twinkies, deep dish pizza, and other potentially lethal items of consumption.

I miss italian beef sammiches the most...

K, I looked it up. It was named after a bartender in Chicago who was convicted in 1903 of slipping drugs into his customers drinks in order to rob them, thus "slipping them the mickey" came into the vernacular.

Why yes, yes I am.

Actually I couldn't think of the word potion or tonic or whatever. Creeping aphasia.

elixir is my favorite...

Elixir? Why, he hardly knows her!