SC - poison in peach pits

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>Okay. Now you've done it. You've forced me to ask...  How many of us
>have portrayed poisoners/cooks on stage?
>
>Adamantius, who once played Felix Unger and Oscar Madison on successive nights

Well, i haven't really been a cook or poisoner, but i had a line 
about "a small bottle of poison" as Owl in a Winnie the Pooh play i 
did in children's theater in the 1960's.

And in my small fair Puritan guild, i carry around a bottle of nasty 
looking liquid that i try to get people to consume to drive the 
devils out of them.

And at the Charles Dickens Christmas Fair i was the alcoholic Mrs. 
Grudden of the internationally reknowned Crummels' Family Players 
(from Nicholas Nickleby) and was spooning the same nasty looking 
stuff into the tiny wizened actress portraying The Infant Phenomenon.

The nasty liquid is mostly malt vinegar, with some molasses, and just 
a little water, with ground cinnamon and ginger floating in it. It 
looks like, uh, sewage. Shouldn't hurt most people, but it sure is 
off putting...

oh, yeah, i'll get to be one of the Weird Sisters AND one of the 
Murtherers in MacBeth in a couple months.

Anahita amina al-maktabah