Tuesday, August 12, 2025
San Francisco: Heroin, okay - nitrous, not okay
When you walk out the exits of a major concert at Golden Gate Park onto 30th Avenue, usually you hear a chorus of vendors hawking steaming-hot bacon-wrapped hot dogs. But this weekend after the Dead & Company shows, the calls were something entirely different: “ice cold fatties.”
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Years ago when I had all four wisdom teeth out, I had my only experience with nitrous. All of the teeth had problems and the surgeon was up over me breaking up the teeth or whatever. I was thinking, "He can do anything he wants". Didn't hurt a bit. I can see how nitrous would be addictive if you're so inclined.
ReplyDeleteThe gas Nitrous Oxide bad? No big deal, but they better not mess with Helium because I like to sound like Donald Duck.
ReplyDeleteBought a baloon of nox outside of the Eox theater in St. Louis in 72/73 before a Dead concert. Paid $2 bucks for it. Nowhere near the size of the ones in the article. It was fun but the last hit gave me the spins, should have backed off a bit. The wonders of youth.
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Bogsidebunny makes me laugh "Donald Duck" we've all done that. That's why it's funny.
ReplyDeleteI would have to use that to listen to that crappy band more than a song or two
ReplyDeleteMost overrated band ever as far as I’m concerned
Maybe if you had listened to something besides their commercial crap that was on the radio.....
DeleteBack in the day a friend stole a bottle of nitrous from a dentist and stashed in in his dad's barn.. That bottle gave lots of us a whole lot of fun for a long time.. Here's looking at you Jim.
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A dentist in Chicago was a popular attendee at parties in the '70s for the same reason.
DeleteHe insisted only that you be sitting down before you took a hit, since too many people had lost teeth from falling on their face.
Maybe he should have let them stand before getting gassed so he could have made money replacing their dental casualties
DeleteWe only paid $5 at RFK back when the band was still showing up on their Summer tour. Good times!
ReplyDeleteDuring my anesthesiology residency, we had fellow residents killed by abusing nitrous. Not a benign thing.
ReplyDeletePerfectly harmless—as long as you mix it with oxygen.
DeleteIn 1993 I was getting Oxygen and acetylene at the local Gas shop. Place was busy. I said "Man traffic is Crazy at the Fairgrounds" "The Dead are playing there!" A guy jumps up and says "Holy
ReplyDeleteShit! Now wonder were selling so much Nitrous! Stop Selling! We'll Never Get those fuckin" tanks back!
Opps In Louisville Ky
ReplyDeleteMy girlfriend back in med school had never done it, so I introduced her. Bounced her face off the radiator and broke her nose. Fucking amateur. Married her anyway. You'd never know it was broken to look at it now.
ReplyDeleteWell alrighty then
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