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Here's an interesting song that I thought might be useful. Whiskey gets its name from a phrase that means 'water of life.' With this song, Doug might be able to turn it into the real thing.
Effect: Turns whiskey into a powerful healing potion. It can't revive the truly dead - that takes a deity's power - but as long as the person could be revived by CPR (i.e. - brain death hasn't occurred), whiskey affected by this song should be able to jump-start the body and heal anything up to but not including true death.

Finnegan's Wake
by The Clancy Brothers
Tim Finnegan lived in Walkin' Street
A gentleman, Irish, mighty odd;
He had a brogue both rich and sweet
And to rise in the world he carried a hod.
Now Tim had a sort of the tipplin' way
With a love of the whiskey he was born
And to help him on with his work each day
He'd a "drop of the cray-thur" every morn.
Chorus:
Whack fol the darn O, dance to your partner
Whirl the floor, your trotters shake;
Wasn't it the truth I told you
Lots of fun at Finnegan's wake!
One mornin' Tim was feelin' full
His head was heavy which made him shake;
He fell from the ladder and broke his skull
And they carried him home his corpse to wake.
They rolled him up in a nice clean sheet
And laid him out upon the bed,
A gallon of whiskey at his feet
And a barrel of porter at his head.
chorus:
His friends assembled at the wake
And Mrs. Finnegan called for lunch,
First they brought in tay and cake
Then pipes, tobacco and whiskey punch.
Biddy O'Brien began to bawl
"Such a nice clean corpse, did you ever see?
"O Tim, mavourneen, why did you die?"
Arragh, hold your gob said Paddy McGhee!
chorus:
Then Maggie O'Connor took up the job
"O Biddy," says she, "You're wrong, I'm sure"
Biddy she gave her a belt in the gob
And left her sprawlin' on the floor.
And then the war did soon engage
'Twas woman to woman and man to man,
Shillelagh law was all the rage
And a row and a ruction soon began.
chorus:
Then Mickey Maloney ducked his head
When a noggin of whiskey flew at him,
It missed, and falling on the bed
The liquor scattered over Tim!
The corpse revives! See how he raises!
Timothy rising from the bed,
Says,"Whirl your whiskey around like blazes
Thanum an Dhul! Do you thunk I'm dead?"
chorus:
Have fun with it.
Feinan

Just a little bit from The Princess Bride
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INIGO
(stupefied)
He's dead. He can't talk.
MIRACLE MAX
Look who knows so much. Well, it just so happens that your friend here is only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Please open his mouth.
Inigo does. Max inserts the bellows in Westley's mouth and starts to pump.
MIRACLE MAX
Now, mostly dead is slightly alive. Now, all dead...well, with all dead, there's usually only one thing that you can do.
INIGO
What's that?
He stops pumping.
MIRACLE MAX
Go through his clothes and look for loose change.
He starts pumping again.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''

-- James Nicoll

Will you people please stop reading my mind? I was just listening to "Finnegan's Wake" on the ride in this morning and thinking, "Gee, with a bottle of whiskey handy, Doug could use that as a resurrection song..." (I have a couple of versions on CD in the car, including the Clancy Brothers' version with the monologue about "water of life", and the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, where they read a passage from Joyce... and while we're on that topic, has anyone here browsed around on my website and found the page where I summarized the first episode of Ranma 1/2 in the style of Finnegans Wake? Look here if you haven't.)


-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.

(reads)
(puts a hanky tied at the corners on his head)
MY BRAIN HURTS!
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Oh, good, it works.



-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.