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from "Des Higgins" contains these words:

Holey Saint Imelda!!!!
I am glad I never bloody well ate that then.
During one daft undergraduate phase, I tried smoking Carroway seeds
(disgusting),

Deliberately 'planted' urban legend, I believe.

dried banana skins

This was definitely put about to embarrass the 'authorities', and hoping
they'd be silly enough to ban bananas. (Hence the pop song 'They call it
Mellow Yellow'.

and eating nutmeg.

Nutmeg contains strychnine. But the word 'nutmeg' is used for a code for
cannabis resin.

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