Since we haven’t taken time out of our daily 12-Step Creativity Program lately for some content ideas, I thought today would be a good time.

According to Fun Better Than Physics, published in 1877, “Whiskey cures a great many ailments, infallibly, by killing the patient.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

What Web sites could you use this fascinating tidbit of information on? Obviously, trivia sites would work. Joke or quote sites.

Alcoholics Anonymous and other groups might appreciate that piece of trivia, though the “lightness” of something so very serious might not work.

Sites that sell recipes containing whiskey could use trivia like this.

Here’s another one centered around alcohol — it’s a cure for the love of liquor:

The prescription is simply an orange every morning a half hour before breakfast. Take that and you will neither want liquor nor medicine. The liquor will become repulsive. By Dr. Chase’s Recipes, c. 1884.

Millions of people only wish it were that simple.

Robin

Added note by Robin: The next day after writing this post, I re-read it and modified it slightly. It seems so callous to me. I didn’t mean it that way. I have lost family members to alcoholism.

Do I think that, “Whiskey cures a great many ailments, infallibly, by killing the patient,” is a funny quotation out of an old book from the 1800’s? Sure.

Alcoholism kills many people today, and there’s nothing funny about that. Alcoholism ruins people’s lives. Believe me, I know.

This is one of those areas where you have to use good judgment and discretion.

I apologize if I offended anyone.

Robin