Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 20:01:30 -0500 (EST)
   From: WebDragon <kmark@odyssey.on.ca>
   X-Mailing-List: <fanfic@fanfic.com> archive/latest/23298

   >> MD Price wrote
   >> >know what I was doing. Alcohol lowers your inhibitions, but 
   >> >not THAT much. Maybe it is a personal thing for me, but 
   >> 
   >>         What about spiked alcohol?
   >
   >To "spike" something meants to put alcohol in it. I have a 
   >lot of experience with alcohol (all in the past) and I 
   >still say bah on it.

No, to spike something means to adulterate it; traditionally
non-alcoholic drinks are spiked with alcohol, and that's probably the
most common usage of this meaning of the word (and therefore
"spiked alcohol" is perhaps unnecessarily confusing).

But the word is used elsewhere, e.g. the whole controversy about
claims that cigarette manufacturers were "spiking" their products
hinged on the precise connotations of the word....

	   Hey, no problem.  It's probably my fault for saying 'spiked' instead
   of .... whatever.

	   Well, what is the term for alcohol with 'additives' in it?  :)

Spiked was a good first try; Mickey Finn isn't quite right because
it's unlikely the objective of the spiker of a whole keg would be to
simply put people to sleep.

You could say "alcohol spiked with some drug"....

					- Harold