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Secret Mummy Formula Will Make You Look Young Forever

Posted January 28, 2009 8:08 AM

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The secret to everlasting youth may be an injection of formalin, alcohol, glycerin, salicylic acid, and zinc salts. Of course, you'd have to be dead first. Those ingredients, scientists now know, made up the embalming formula that has kept the body of a Sicilian toddler in nearly pristine condition for almost a century.

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01/28/2009 8:49 AM

Yes, yes. All those ingredients are all well and good. But I'm banking on a generous and long-term pre-death application of single-malt Scotch.
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01/28/2009 11:38 AM

an injection of formalin, alcohol, glycerin, salicylic acid, and zinc salts

Can I get that straight up with a twist?
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01/28/2009 8:12 PM

I'll have mine on the rocks

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02/03/2009 2:04 AM

I though large doses of THC resin and a little resin hardener would make me like a chunk of fiberglass. But I got bored with being a dope and moved on. Besides some stoner would have put me in his pipe a little piece at a time.

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