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Experimental Drug "Caffeinol" Tested
dan.hunt writes "Two of my favorite things: Cafeine and Alcohol have been combined into a new medicine. 'The idea of mixing alcohol and caffeine was "serendipitous", Grotta told HealthScoutNews.' I am sure a lot of /. readers knew that Irish Coffee was good for you. I will mix two strong cups of coffee with one ounce or two of Irish Cream http://www.baileys.com/ and one ounce or two of Sambuca http://www.luxardo.it/ to get a taste for this medical research."
Medicine. Riiiiight.
Buzz beer: stay up late and get drunk all over again.
Use of this treatment is not authorized for patients under the age of 19 (21 in some states).
At first i looked at my watch
;p
no... not april first
then i looked in my desk drawer
still haven't smoked my crack
wow! I can't wait to go to starbucks and see a new line of coffees... O'Reilly's special Blend
WTPOUAWYHTTOTWPA
What's the point of using acronyms when you have to type out the whole phrase anyways?
I believe the original version of this was mixing Red Bull with vodka. A suprisingly good tasting drink. Just the thing to get the night started.
Spencer Ogden
Of course to some of us, Sambuca already tastes like medicine and doesn't need any caffiene to make it a wonder drug.
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They've invented Kahlua!
Again.
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was between about 3AM and 7AM on a Sunday morning with a project due Sunday night at midnight. I had been out drinking and was on my third cup of coffee back in my dorm room when I had the most joyous experience in my life. I wrote C code for 4 hours without compiling. Then, as I was getting ready for a power nap, I tried a compile. It worked. No syntax errors. Then I ran the sample data though. No errors. I was done. And it was all thanks to the miracle of caffeine mixed with about 8 shots of vodka. I got an A in 15- 213 that semester by using that same strategy right up to finals. Thanks Grey Goose!
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Great. Now certain people will be faking strokes down at the free clinic.
Others will be saying, "Nawww <hic> - this is muDICenal <hic> (sic)"
Besides, giving coffee to a drunk does not make him sober, giving coffee to a drunk just gives you a wide-awake drunk.
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Irish coffee, aka "God's Blessing" (see, Callahan's Cross-Time Salloon by Spider Robinson):
1 cup freshly-made Jamaica Blue Mountain
1.5 ounce Bushmill's Black Label Irish Whiskey
top with Whipped cream if you really feel motivated to gild the lily of perfection.
utter rubbish
Ouch. The last thing I'd want is a hangover with a side of caffeine poisoning. This is about as medicinal as heroin (which was actually considered a medicine for a while in early 1900s) and sounds like someone's drunken frat dare taken too seriously.
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- Didn't I hear of some Canadian company making a caffinated beer years ago? ( I think I found it - Rethink Beer (warning - annoying flash site)).
- When I was in grad school, and I needed to concentrate for an all nighter to whip the last bits of a project into shape for a demo in the morning, I would usually have a big mug full of of espresso on one side of my desk, and a bottle of scotch on the other. If I was feeling tired, I would sip from one, if I was too stressed out and twitching, I would sip from the other. It worked quite well in the short term, but really burned me out over the long term...
It's good to know that in the second case, had the stress caused a stroke, I might have had a little protection."A caffeine and alcohol cocktail similar to an Irish coffee could prevent severe brain damage in stroke victims"
Excellent. I believe I shall preemptively protect myself from brain damage due to stroke... at 20... and healthy...
I can't vouch personally for caffeine's usefulness at anything else, but I used to have horrific migraines for years, often 2-3 a week which would last more than a day each. I'd been hospitalised a few times, had bunches of scans done, and tried dozens of drugs, variations to my diet, exercise and the like
Turns out that for me the most effective relief is, when I start seeing auras over everything (which comes 20 minutes before the pain) I take a double strength coffee with double sugar, 2 aspirin, and sit quietly. Within half an hour it's easing off, and I'm back to normal within 1. They still take me out of action for an hour at a time, but that is FAR preferable to the feeling of having nails rammed into my eyes for 24 hours straight. That little fix also makes it far less likely another one will come along within a week. It's bliss!
So they tried it with... other things. For example:
Aspirin
leftover chinese food
electric shock
tomato juice with tabasco
tabasco by itself- who knows?
tic-tacs, because that was what they found in the desk drawer
zinc, thinking maybe they could cure the common cold AND a stroke at the same time...
I'm making this list up myself, for amusement, because frankly, i'd like to see more of exactly how they got paid to do this research, and what else they tried on people to figure it out. I think that researchers should be required to publish their initial ideas along with how they came upon the idea... "so, we were sitting around one night getting hammered, and he looks at me and says, you know what? I bet this could cause cancer. "
and i said, "we aren't testing on cancer, just on strokes!"
And he hands me the bottle and sez, "so i bet this shtuff could cure stroke damage," and he passes out on the floor. I wrote it on the floor in magic marker and when we came to and got cleaned up, well, we tried it out..."
seriously, on the migraine note, a lot of pain meds now include caffeine, because it really does change how things work. Me, i go straight for imitrex, which at $20 a pill is still a bargain, because if somebody were to walk up to me and tell me they'd make my migraine vanish for $20, i'd say pretty please. The caffeine and regular NSAID approach doesn't work any more, alas... Now if they'd just find that this cure works on migraines, we'd be in business.
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I once hacked up a wire-wrapped 6809-based embedded system with an associate, had a monitor ported to it just burned into EPROM.
We were hooking up a 'scope to see if, of all basic things, some address decoding PALs were working, and powered it up, and...
(It wasn't quite -- DRAM refresh circuitry was hosed, and it would die about 20 seconds after boot, but still. Though, I vaguely remember us hand-assembling a 60Hz interupt-drivern software refresh a la 8088 IBM PC, and keying it in via the keyboard, before the RAM got amnesia). DRAM tends to stay far longer than specs would suggest, at least in those days.
You could've hired me.