I gotcher jinglebells ...

[Sue U]

... right here, pal:



Christmas spirit NYC-style.

(This year's SantaCon is coming to town this weekend.)

[Sue U]

Also too, puts me in mind of my favorite Christmas carol:



(Office's holiday party tonight, can't you tell?)

[wesw]

I learned something today. zombies may be real!

there was a link at the end of the santa video that was about "the world s most dangerous drug" scolopomine or something, comes from a tree in northern south America.

[Joe Guy]

....comes from a tree in northern south America.

I've read about that too. I think those trees grow in the east western area of northern South America, somewhere below southern North America.

[Lord Jim]

I saw this on the news this morning...

Those are some very bad Santas...

They're a disgrace to the uniform....

[oldr_n_wsr]

(Office's holiday party tonight, can't you tell?)

We had ours this past wednesday but I didn't go. I went to my wifes christmas party instead. Her company invited spouses but mine didn't.

[wesw]

Colombia, bolivia, and Venezuela

[rubato]

Datura, aka Jimson Weed, is a source of scopolamine. It grows wild in the United States.





It's only dangerous if you eat it.


yrs,
rubato

[wesw]

huh. I did not know that. I knew jimson weed made you trip. the older kids showed it to me. they said nnot to try it cause it was a bad trip and you could go crazy. apparently it was local knowledge that you didn t mess with it. I may have read about some early colonists or soldiers who had crazy trips on it.

[wesw]

actually in the you tube video the Colombian people would not even think about sleeping under the tree. the flowers were sweetly scented but they had hallucinogenic properties as well as the seeds and roots