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To: bd476
Anyone here old enough to remember Hadacol?

"Hadacol was a patent medicine marketed as a vitamin supplement. Its principal attraction, however, was that it contained 12 percent alcohol. . . ."

Big seller in dry regions of the Border States and the South where beer and whiskey were not allowed. No one knew about that 12 percent thing -- or didn't care. It made them feel good.

The Federal Trade Commission complained that Hadacol's leeringly prurient ballyhoo ("The Hadacol boogie makes you boogie-woogie all the time") is "false, misleading and deceptive" in representing the nostrum as "an effective treatment and cure for scores of ailments and diseases."

Does just feeling good for awhile count?

Don't know why I thought of Hadacol. . . .

26 posted on 03/10/2008 4:37:19 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
WilliamofCarmichael wrote: "...Does just feeling good for awhile count? Don't know why I thought of Hadacol. . . ."
It sure does count. That's an excellent point and a good example.

It's just sad that a very large, high profile, politically active, conservative group was led into this nonsense and that they now believe it.

40 posted on 03/10/2008 4:55:45 AM PDT by bd476
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To: WilliamofCarmichael

They hadtocall it something so they called it Hadacol.


56 posted on 03/10/2008 5:09:17 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Does anyone still believe this is a free country?)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael; ElkGroveDan; calcowgirl
Yes! I remember Hadacol!!!

Your point is prescient!!!

I also noticed the thread title about the Pope stating that "secularization" is even spreading within his church, too!!!

There's a verse in the old King James Version that essentially says: That old serpent, the Devil, knowing he hath but a short time, roameth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour!!!

Sounds a lot like Algore and GANG-GREEN, to me!!! Now here's a bunch of Baptist that certainly should know better, going right along with it and "leading" far too many astray. Judgement day has NOT been cancelled due to Global Warming!!!

104 posted on 03/10/2008 11:29:03 AM PDT by SierraWasp (Changing America to an Obamanation is good? I think NOT! A McCaination isn't a whole lot better!!!)
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