I thought this article was quite intriguing.

http://www.impactlab.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3839

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Four dimensions, four fundamental forces... coincidence?

It seems to be a compilation. Some tips sound very useful, some are just...way out there. Honey as an antiseptic? Honey is like a petri dish!

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

some of those are great.

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Drugs & Stupidity, Tons of it.

Only certain types of honey (Manuka mainly) tend to have antibacterial properties, however the results from actual research (and not anecdotes) are still preliminary.

See here

If anyone wants more info, go to Pubmed and use the search criteria: honey antibacterial

edit: it helps if one puts the links in properly
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[This message has been edited by Fade (edited August 15, 2004).]

Reminds me of some home remades (sp) around here. I've heard that vinger and honey for a sore throat before, that actually works. You can also put a mixture of meat tenderizer and water (mixed so its like a paste) on a bee/wasp/yellow jacket sting right after they stung you and it will take all the pain out. Only works right after you get stung though. I swear by that, I use it all the time. Tobacco works the same way, too.

Soar Throat + brandy = better

Thank you dad!

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A friend of mine grew up with her parents swearing by Tabasco sauce as the cure for /anything/ , be it sore throat, cold, flu..

For sore throats i tend to just mix some lemon juice and salt with warm water and gargle it.

Earaches, boiled down some cloves, then swab with the essential extract. It's an anaesthetic and anitmicrobial.

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I've heard of most of those before and used a few myself. Most of them make sense.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

The gatorade/headache thing works. It helps alot if you are dehydrated, but I had it once after an operation and it killed my headache.

Gatorade cures headaches only if they're caused by dehydration or lack of eating.

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WAITER: Here’s your green salad, sir.
ANAKIN: What? You fool, I told you NO CROUTONS! Aaaaaaargh!

I thought this thread was going to be about Martha Stewart. Just as well...maybe I'll try some of them re-maw-dees.

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Banks and banks of humming machinery! I've never seen so many knobs. We're going to have to do something, Charlie! Try pushing that button there. No? How about that one? No, not that one either. I know! I'll try pushing this one. Hold my hat will you? Good fellow.

He speaks the truth.

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

Mix tapeworm eggs with cocaine for a quick and easy weight-loss technique!

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Superstition brings bad luck.
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Pfft, my Dad showed me how to do that when I was 3. Old news.

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Map-Review | My Portfolio | The Matrix: Unplugged

Banks and banks of humming machinery! I've never seen so many knobs. We're going to have to do something, Charlie! Try pushing that button there. No? How about that one? No, not that one either. I know! I'll try pushing this one. Hold my hat will you? Good fellow.

If you start to feel a soar throat coming on, gargle with salty water. You want it fairly salty.. enough so that it tastes bad

It really does work. I had a soar throat coming on a few days back, started gargling as soon as I realised it, gargled twice a day or so, and its gone. It was never really there either because I stomped on it very quickly.

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B'tduz: A popular dwarfish game which consists of standing a few feet apart and throwing large rocks at one another's head.

"Yes, it's a bloody flying alligator setting fire to my city!" - His Grace His Excellency the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes.

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You could always let the pain run it's course, saving $$$ in everything!

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