Where Babies Really Come From

Bad Reporter is good today. He's hit or miss, but when he hits, it's grand.

Read the Labels

For some reason I recalled today that my mother once bought a product called Save the Baby, so of course I had to look it up on the web. The stuff was a cough salve, and my brother had an intractable cough. Of course, being my mother, she didn't read the label, but fed it to the kid. It wasn't until several years later that I, trolling through the medicine cabinet for some reason, read the label and realized that it was not supposed to be taken internally. My brother didn't die; I don't think he suffered any ill effects at all. And my mother was briefly chagrinned when she realized what she'd done, then forgot all about it. But I'm kind of piqued to know that the stuff (which sounds rather like Vicks Vap-O-Rub) is still on the market.