Odds and ThC

[Tryg Helseth]

Don said:

   [...] "Odds bodkins" is an old-English oath, short for "Od's Bodykins" 
   or somesuch, which I believe is a reference to the body of God or 
   Christ. [...] We're not allowed to use expressions like "Dad gommit"
   in A Disney comic [...]

Don, thanks for the info, and if you do look this up I'd like to hear what 
you find.  From What you have said, it does sound like a phrase that would 
have appeared in a Mickey Mouse comic.  I remember Mickey uttering other 
strange things like "Smokey Hokes" instead of "Holy Smokes" so Odd Bodkins 
would fit right in as Disney family material... :)

>From Ken:

>I finally got around to reading U$A #36, and noticed in the background on the
>first page of the Gyro story (page 27) that of the several cans of stuff Gyro
>has in his closet, one is labeled ThC, the active ingredient in marijuana.  I
>wonder how this one got past all those censors?

Hi Ken,

When that story was written (1962) it would have been unlikely that 
many people would have known that THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) was the active 
ingredient in marijuana.  I seem to remember (and I could be way off 
here) that THC wasn't even identifed as the marijuana's active ingredient 
until the '60s.   

Of course, someone could have added that THC in the reprint, and it may not 
even be in the original.   BTW, when you first look at that label, it looks 
like ThC as you reported; as if it were a compound of Tholium (Th) and 
Carbon (C).  When I checked it under double magnifying glasses, however, it 
looks like THC with an incompletely formed capital H.

Tryg


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