Cambridgeshire Drug Action Team, bless em........ have put up large pink posters in the toilets of many of the pikier local pubs that say, 'While you're in here, what's happening to your drink?' This is blatantly an invitation to grafitii, among the responses I've seen have been:
i) Oxidation.
ii) Inflation.
iii) Being pissed in.
iv)Being Mickey Finned (??? What??)
v) Being Rohyped.
vi) Being Fucking Stolen.
I think maybe Cambridgeshire Drug Action team may have needed to leave less pink space on the posters. And I'd like them (out of purely casual interest, I must emphasise) to explain to me what 'Mickey Finning' a drink entails.
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Tue 4 Nov 2003, 8:41,
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i) Oxidation.
ii) Inflation.
iii) Being pissed in.
iv)Being Mickey Finned (??? What??)
v) Being Rohyped.
vi) Being Fucking Stolen.
I think maybe Cambridgeshire Drug Action team may have needed to leave less pink space on the posters. And I'd like them (out of purely casual interest, I must emphasise) to explain to me what 'Mickey Finning' a drink entails.
Mickey Finnis slang for mixing your drinks.
I have no idea why, and the story about how I came to know reflects *really* badly on my mum, no matter how many times I tried to type it correctly.
So I shan't mention it at all.
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mickey%20finn
/edit slightly different definition, now that I've read it more closely. Bloody americans.
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Tue 4 Nov 2003, 8:53,
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I have no idea why, and the story about how I came to know reflects *really* badly on my mum, no matter how many times I tried to type it correctly.
So I shan't mention it at all.
dictionary.reference.com/search?q=mickey%20finn
/edit slightly different definition, now that I've read it more closely. Bloody americans.
During Prohibitionbootleg gin was called Mickey Finn - just a form of rhyming slang (I do believe). Basically, it was gutrot.
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Tue 4 Nov 2003, 8:54,
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It means to slip a drug into a drinkI'd always heard that it was named after a bar owner who slipped some knockout chemical ( I don't recall what) into drinks, and take the passed out person in the back, rob him, and put him in the alley in rags instead of clothes. The chemical also affected their thinking when they woke up. MAybe I should check snopes.com . . .
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Thu 6 Nov 2003, 1:51,
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to slip someone a mickey..is to spike their drink in some unpleasant manner, the type and degree of unpleasantness according to your character.
I was recently at a bar in the Rio in Vegas, chatting to a girl who was, over the course of 10 minutes, a dancer, manicurist, PA, and dancer again. (never a hooker)
When I wandered to the slots to replenish my wife with quarters, the girl was aghast that I should leave my drink unattended.
What if someone should _mickey_ it.
Being large, homely (ugly), married, pissed, and with a liver the size of a small pony, I said _ I don't care, so long as it's paid for._
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Tue 4 Nov 2003, 18:09,
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I was recently at a bar in the Rio in Vegas, chatting to a girl who was, over the course of 10 minutes, a dancer, manicurist, PA, and dancer again. (never a hooker)
When I wandered to the slots to replenish my wife with quarters, the girl was aghast that I should leave my drink unattended.
What if someone should _mickey_ it.
Being large, homely (ugly), married, pissed, and with a liver the size of a small pony, I said _ I don't care, so long as it's paid for._
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