On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:43:57 -0800, Mark Thorson >
wrote:

>Not that you're likely to have an open bottle of absinthe
>in the house . . .

Wasn't that banned for sale? Think I remember reading something
about that.

....from Wikapedia


The chemical thujone, present in small quantities, was singled out and
blamed for its alleged harmful effects. By 1915, absinthe had been
banned in the United States and in most European countries except the
United Kingdom, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, Denmark and the
Austro-Hungarian Empire.