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SPSP Recipes

Nicotine Patch Substitute
As all well informed amatuers know, US military research has established that nicotine severely degrades night vision by shrinking blood vessesls communicating with eye and brain - about as lethal as a Hummer on high beam except for longer duration.

Therefore, aversion therapy for smokers: Fine-grind six (6) pellets of freeze-dried kangaroo droppings, add a finely grated funnel web (preferably female - greater mass and less venom), soak in 30ml of cheap bourbon for two hours adding one drop of Tea Tree oil after one hour, and then dry in the sun for two days.

Pack into a clay pipe and smoke for 10 minutes while gazing intently at a pack of your favourite coffin nails. Smoking will never be the same again.


Iris Coffee
Want to observe till dawn and then observe Sun spots all day? In a large coffee mug put six (6) dessert spoons of instant coffee, 300ml Red Bull, two crushed No Doz tablets and top off with high octane cola.

Sip steadily until your eyes are like saucers - additional advantage is that no mosquitoes will fly within two metres of you.

However, daylight COULD find you not commencing your Solar observing program, but instead stumbling around the eastern (lower) observing field bumping into trees, cars, people, pit toilets etc.

Caution: Do not ingest if you are in frail health, taking any prescribed medication or are of tolerably sound mind.