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Message-ID: <031301Z01091993@anon.penet.fi>
Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: an27249@anon.penet.fi (Slartibartfast)
Date: Wed,  1 Sep 1993 03:07:36 UTC
Subject: The Young Ones = LSD

This was posted to me, Slarti, from my mate Neil (from the Young Ones):

"When I was a teenager, right, I was only seriously depressed like twice -
once for four years, and once for five.  The first of these periods hit me
when I hit thirteen.  This depression followed hard on the one I'd been
having when I was twelve, which like dated back to a bad vibe I had as a
foetus, but those were childhood depressions, which are not what I'm
talking about now.  Between my first and second adolescent depressions,

I WAS HAPPY FOR EIGHT MINUTES!!!

Yeah, I was fifteen and a half and this is how it happened.  I discovered
drugs.  I tuned up, freaked in, and dropped around.  I found God and
happiness within myself, I like knew, and saw, THE WHOLE TRUTH, and it was
a trip man, a real trip.

This is how it happened.  Me and my like groove pal, Rollock, were in
Leamington Spa, just sort of digging the summer and drawing on our jeans
in biro... when this guy I knew from school, well, he was my best mate
actually, came up and said, "Hey, Neil and Rollock, d'you wanna score some
acid?"

FREAK OUT!! DID WE? HAVE I GOT LONG HAIR?

So like we scored a couple of tabs... and dropped them (which is groove
talk for eating them).  Like 50p a tab, and it was done.  My very first
electric cool laid acid trip...

Instantly my previous adolescent depression fell away from me, like
Gandalf casting aside his old grey cloak, my head seemed to detach itself
and float above me, I looked down and I could see that my nob was bigger
than Heathrow airport.  Then this like space ship landed on it, and Jimi
Hendrix got out and played "Electric Ladyland" on a harp made out of my
pubes, except it wasn't Jimi, it was JESUS! and he said, "watch the
sunshine dance Neil, there are no more bum vibes", and I said "each one of
my thoughts is a glittering bubble, floating in space for all eternity",
and then there was this groovy dancing flower in front of me, and it
looked a bit like Rollock, and it was singing, and the song it sang was...

"This is an orange tic-tac man! We've been ripped off!", and that was when
my second adolescent depression started."

(C)1984 Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, and Lise Mayer

Stay Cool, and farewell earthlings, 
from your Magrathean correspondent,
Slartibartfast.



(PS: I had to post anonymously, or else everyone would've wanted to buy
planets off me...  Just ignore the stuff below...)


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