The 'Lies Upon Lies' Game

The popularity of the rubber ducky led pediatrician Dr. Spock to recommend curtailing bath time to no more than 15 minutes to prevent children from getting pruny.
 
Edison made the first wax cylinder from a canister full of his own earwax that he'd been saving up for a special occasion. He was kind of a weird dude.
 
Speaking of ear wax, Charles Schultz had big troubles with ear wax. Many people don't know that the teacher's voice in the Peanuts cartoons was inspired by the way little Charlie actually heard it as a child.
 
The act of your leg having a spasm, usually called a "Charlie Horse", derives from an 11th century horse that spent it's whole life on the ground, because it's legs were having spasms.
 
This was because the owner's name was Charlie, and he became hoarse yelling at his animal to stand up.
 
"Trying to get your beast to stand up?" was the 12th-century slogan for the elixir-form of the herbal-concoction that would eventually be rediscovered and marketed as Viagra.
 
Researchers who developed Viagra were originally looking for a treatment for high blood pressure and angina.
 
Sexually stimulating pills have become necessary since women like Lady Viagra have become female stars instead of Annie Haslam and Grace Slick.
 
Grace Slick was originally named Holly Square because she was born with the square hairdo. When she was 3, she became the first and so far only person to ice skate down the Rockies. She did so with such finesse that her parents changed her name to Grace Slick.
 
Racing slicks became popular on Pluto as sports enthusiastic plutonians enjoy slip-sliding their race pickup trucks around the planet.
 
Unfortunately, drag racing on Pluto never really caught on. Due to a complete lack of oxygen, engines refused to run and the trucks had to be pushed down the quarter mile by track attendants wearing air packs, which everybody agreed wasn't very much fun.
 
Later, some NASCAR fans added rockets to the race vehicles, and after opening an oval track, declared themselves to be NASACAR, the National Association for Stock Airless Car Auto Racing.
 
Among the oddities of NASACAR culture is that drivers without fail carry rubber chickens in their car, and shake them at their rivals at highly competitive moments in the race. This is known as giving the other driver 'the bird.'
 
Chicken stock used for soup began in a rather disgusting way. A disease swept through the chicken population in 1768 causing the chickens to melt into puddles. Hungry people would scoop up the liquid and add vegetables to it and cook it in a pot.

No one became ill from it, so Alistair Cambell, a resourceful fellow, hired laborers to gather up all the puddles and haul them to a processing plant. He named the product soup and sold it in stores.
 
It was then marketed on Mars by the space Cowboy known as Steve Miller with the help of Denzel Washington. It's known there as the "soup of Eli."

The label is printed in braille and it must be transported in secrecy to avoid theft by soup thieves.
 
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