Pipistrello's Commonplace Book

Remember Ladies, Spandex is a Privilege not a Right. Plan accordingly for Casual Friday. Advice given at friend Craft Queen's Californian workplace

Men have No Time for Sickly NERVY WOMEN Win Admiration! Regain Thrilling New Vitality! Build up strong, healthy nerves ... have new, rich blood coursing through your veins ... be well--always! BIDOMAK "The Tonic of the Century" For Nerves, Brain and that Depressed Feeling ... If You Suffer from these Disorders, Start Taking BIDOMAK Now! Nerves, Listlessness, Languor, Headaches, Nervous Dyspepsia, Anaemia, Lack of Confidence, Tight, Screwed-up Feeling in the Brain, Neuralgia, Nerve Pains, "Depressed Feeling" MONEY BACK GUARANTEE &c. &c. Advertisement in Truth (Sydney Scandal Sheet and precursor to Sunday Mirror) , 6th October, 1940

What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement. Marcus Tullius Cicero per Robert Harris, Dictator, 2015

The mesmerism of high numbers is perfectly illustrated in Military Tattoos. Huge crowds will come from great distances in the middle of the night to see a thousand men doing at once what nobody would walk across the road to see one man do by himself. If one man wants to swing an Indian club that is his own business and nobody will be sufficiently interested even to try to stop him, but if a thousand men should swing Indian clubs together, then large sums can be charged for the pleasure of seeing them. Denis Constanduros, My Grandfather, 1948

INGREDIENTS LISTS: "A" Absinthe, Swiss No. 1 Oil Angelica               5  gm. Oil Anise                   10 gm. Oil Fennel                  10 gm. Oil Cardamom             3 gm. Oil Coriander             10 gm. Oil Marjoram             10 gm. Oil Star Anise            12 gm. Oil Wormwood          15 gm. 95% Alcohol              10 kilos Arrack Ethyl Acetate             100 gm. Black Balsam Peru    130 gm. Vanilla                         16 gm. Oil of Neroli                  5 gm. Oil of Birch                    1 gm. Ground Horseradish   500 gm. Onions                        125 gm. Iron Filings                     2 kg. Cocoa                            25 gm. Raisin Stems                    1 kg. 90% Alcohol                   41 lit. Water                            27.5 lit. Adhesive for Wigs Damar                          20 parts. Rosin                            20 parts. Beeswax                       40 parts. Venice Turpe

Certa Bonum Certamen / Fight The Good Fight Et Discendo Et Adiuvando / Learning & Helping Nunc Tempus Adest / Now Is The Time Manners Maketh Man Thought With Action Five School Mottos the Pipistrello Family were meant to Aspire to