A nice case report & review of the literature on pennyroyal poisoning from Annals of Internal Medicine: [link] It sums up all the reported cases of different severity in tables, and gives an overview of the issues & treatment.
To wit: in minor cases, it causes abdominal cramping and perhaps some neurological toxicity, but the major danger of pennyroyal toxicity is the threat of liver failure. The recommended treatment for pennyroyal poisoning is similar to the treatment for tylenol overdose (probably the most common toxin-mediated liver failure), i.e. gastric lavage with activated charcoal (stomach pumping) ASAP after ingestion, administration of "N-acetylcysteine," preferrably intravenously, which may serve as the substrate for the toxic metabolite of the compound and help bind it out, plus supportive care. I suppose, as it is the case with tylenol overdose, if the liver fails irrevocably and the patient is neurologically intact, then he/she may be a candidate for liver transplantation.
On the header for an Atlantis fic:
Pairing: Spanky with a side of Sparky
Rating: K+
...wtf? Portmanteaus, whilst inelegant, are readily decodable, for the most part. Is this like that whole HMS Pumpkin Pie thing in HP fandom? Or...or
what,
exactly?
Unless it's a crossover with Our Gang (which in this fandom is NOT out of the question), I'd assume they mislabeled a content description referring to actual spanking/bondage play with a bit of romantic interplay dialogue thrown in.
Not sure how that would work with a K+ rating, though...
Spanky I know nothing about. Sparky is Elizabeth/John; my understanding of how it came about is that Nos joked on a J/E mailing list that the portmanteaus were all so lousy they might as well call it Sparky, and then people, um, did.
Yes, it's stupid.
...they didnt like Jizz as a portmanteau? What's
wrong
with them?
Martha Wilson has posted the final part of Recovery, her sequel to Retrograde. Links to the earlier parts are in the post:
[link]
Harry Potter and the Eagle of Truthiness.
The title says it all.
"Put your wands away and close those spellbooks, and get ready to be Sorted into the House of Truth!"
...er, is this a crossover?
puzzled
Yes, it is. I suppose the Colbert phenomenon might not have made it to Egypt yet.
