Weird.

23 hours on train with dad's corpse

She said she didn't have the money to send her father's body home from Colorado after he died Sunday on an Amtrak train en route to Chicago. So a Grayslake woman waited as long as 23 hours to report the death, alerting authorities only after the train pulled into Union Station the next day, Chicago Police said.

The woman told police that her ailing father, 80-year-old Daniel Stepanovich of Hammond, Ind., died in their sleeper car around 6:30 p.m. Sunday, close to the time the eastbound California Zephyr pulled into Glenwood Springs, Colo., said Chicago Police spokeswoman Jo Ann Taylor.

However, it wasn't until the train, which left the San Francisco Bay area Saturday morning, got to Chicago's Union Station at 5:45 p.m. Monday that she notified train conductors of the death, Taylor and Amtrak said.

On the Wire you do. In fact some of us in the fandom have gone from "Wireheads" to "Wire fiends" because we are so hung up we waited for a damn year and a half and who else but a junkie would do that?!

People still jones like fiends, right?

Are there still dope fiends who get high on goofballs?

eta: Oops - I meant "hopped up on goofballs."

yeah...although I've also heard "Fiend" as a verb. "fiending for some..."

Now I have Jodeci's "Feenin" in my head, which I'm pretty sure is actually about fiending.

Feening makes me think of Macy Gray. Not sure if that's because she's always hopped up on something or another, or if she used the word in her breakout single.

Maybe both.

Am migrainey, am about to lead a huge meeting. Slay me now.

Jesse! I meant to squee with you and msbelle earlier over BB, but I forgot.

Squeee!

DUDE I KNOW OMG. FINALLY!!!!

Another old drug expression I love is "Coked to the gills." A google on that exact phrase only turned up 674 hits.