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Dorothy V

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2. Snake Oil Salesman

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 04:36 PM

Dec 12

Right out of the 1800s, when a body could buy a bottle of snake-oil (100 proof, and likely colored with tobacco juice), guaranteed to cure everything from freckles to cancer. I see we've backslid. But didn't we pass some laws to stop the quacks and charlatans? Reckon not.
Maybe I could earn some money to pay my grocery bills with by concocting something on my stovetop and setting up in a parking lot. I'll call it "Dorothy's Sure Cure for Stupidity". Might be a big seller in these parts - Red State.

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