The Funny Stuff by P. J. O'Rourke

Author:P. J. O'Rourke
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grove Atlantic

THE CIA

A missile hit the Souq Sharq. The Kuwaitis claimed it was a “Seersucker” missile. Who names these things, leftover old preppies at the CIA? Next, we’ll have the Madras Cummerbund missile and the Lime Green Pants with Little Trout Flies missile.

—Peace Kills (2004)

COBRA BLOOD

There’s a ritual involved in drinking cobra blood. Of course. There’s a ritual involved in most very silly things. You have to get four males together and pledge a toast or something, and something else, which I don’t remember. Do I need to mention we were drunk? Then you slam it.

Being that a snake is a “cold-blooded” animal, I vaguely expected a chilled beverage. But it turns out a snake is a room-temperature animal. Which allows the full flavor to come through.

Drinking cobra blood makes you … it’s very good for … gives you lots of … The explanation was in Chinese. And cobra gallbladder juices do whatever even more. We let the youngest guy drink this. He said it was okay, although he was awake all night chasing mice around his hotel room.

—Eat the Rich (1998)

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