ITA with Scrappy and Pix on BICO. Joe and I used to play the "she's being coy and he's being coaxing" game all the time when we were first dating and since we started really dating in the winter, we call BICO one of our songs.

*shrug*

Were there even roofies or the equivalent when the song was written?

Were there even roofies or the equivalent when the song was written?

She's just talking about the alcohol content in her eggnog, I think.

I agree, I was just wondering as to the other.

I agree that it's not the intent of the song, but people were slipping Mickeys in the early 1900s, apparently. [link]

Huh. Thanks, Jesse!

Aims, insent!

Huh, somehow I thought that term didn't originate until the 1940s or thereabouts. Maybe from watching old B&W detective flicks? Who knows, but thanks for the cool link, Jesse!

That is one of the best Seinfeld's ever!

George: I'm gonna slip him a mickey

Jerry: In his drink? Are you out of your mind? Who are you, Peter Lorre?

Jerry: Where did you even get a mickey? I can't believe I'm saying mickey!

George: I have a source.

Jerry: You've got a mickey source.

In Eugene O'Neill's one-act play from 1917 The Long Voyage Home one of the characters is slipped a mickey. In fact, that is how most sailors were Shanghaied out of San Francisco.

They'd slip 'em some knock-out drops (I don't know what was common then), and then they'd roll the guy up in a rug, and cart him up the hill from the bars on the Barbary Coast. He'd wake up at sea and have no choice but to work until they made landfall, and even then he'd probably be bound to the ship because he wouldn't have enough money to buy passage to where he wanted to go.

The Mickey Finn entry at wikipedia says chloral hydrate was what people used.