Aspirin

The chemical structure of aspirin (after the headache has gone away)

Aspirin is one the most yummy pills consumed by human beings behind ecstasy and viagra. For untold centuries people have been mistakenly convinced that this substance rejuvenates the sore brains of billions; curing hangovers, relieving migraines, powering cold fusion reactors, replacing asbestos, and doing other nice things.

Aspirin is to account for approximately 4523% of the modern world economy, and is second only to coffee as a human nutritional need.

In spite of all this pill-popping and dependence, Aspirin is a placebo, and actually has no effect on organic life forms. It only "Aspires" to be a real drug, as the name implies.

The Invention of Aspirin

There are two theories as to how Aspirin was invented.

Uneducated punks who cannot handle the truth believe that Aspirin was invented in the year 1839 A.C. by Bayer, a small company founded by bears. How exactly they accomplished this remains uncertain, and the bears aren't talking. Anyway, bears had no use for the aspirin they learned to create, since bears alleviate their headaches with honey, berries, and grubs. So they sold aspirin to the Brits, who used it to get millions of hapless Chinese hooked on the stuff, resulting in the Opium Wars ("Opium" is Olde Englysh slang for aspirin).

In the aftermath of these wars, aspirin was forgotten, and faded into history.
History became legend; legend became myth; and for two and a half thousand years, aspirin waited.
Until one day, it ensnared a new commercial distributor...

Recent evidence suggests, however, that Aspirin was invented by Jesus in order to cure his stigmata.

Production and Distribution

Aspirin is harvested from pie, traditionally by a complex process involving poking around in the pie with one's hand to see if the baker put any aspirin in it. This makes aspirin harvesting dangerous and morally objectionable to many, so naturally the work is done by child laborers, who are always sticking their hands into food, the little punks.

The aspirin is then packaged in cotton padding, plastic film, foil, a hard plastic case, a cast iron binging, a stainless steel combination lock, tamper-evident glass shielding, a minimum of two (2) armed guards, a tank, and finally a voodoo charm against evil spirits is placed on the package. This "child-proofing" is impenetrable to anyone who does not posses an axe.

The aspirin is then sold to the general public by one of the Three Awesome Aspirin-Givers (TAAGs): Pfizer, Pfoozer, and Pfeezer. This benevolent triforce of pharmaceutical sentinels has resisted all attempts by Oprah Winfrey to bring them under her control, thanks to the architectural stability of triangles. Oprah still has to pay TAAG prices for her massive aspirin consumption.

The Three Awesome Aspirin-Givers (TAAGs)

This is an artists' conception of the TAAGs' triforce organization. The artist was indubitably stoned on aspirin.

The omnibenevolent threesome of aspirin providers, in case you weren't paying attention, are Pfizer, Pfoozer, and Pfeezer.

• Pfizer: Pfizer is the vanguard of the TAAGs, and is significantly more popular than the other two. This because of its impeccable sense of fashion. Envious of Pfizer's fame, fortune, and girlfriends, the other two TAAGs started the Jealous Aspirin War (JAW) of 2003.86 A.C.; a conflict that lasted nearly three minutes as the other two TAAGs challenged Pfizer to successive arm-wrestling bouts. Despite all its strength, Pfizer lost by forfeit when its lack of arms (medical corporations rarely have arms) became insurmountable. The peace treaty was signed, sent to the appropriate bureaus for verification, and was subsequently lost for fourteen years. Damn bureaucrats.

• Pfoozer: This Awesome Aspirin-Giver is generally considered to be the most friendly, but at the same time a total wimp. I mean, really, Pfoozer is a total pushover. Never stands up for itself. Anyway, Pfoozer is the largest producer of aspirin in the known multiverse, producing over 3.141592 megatons of the stuff every 12 hours. This exceeds the combined output of the other two, but Pfoozer can't handle the legal issues involved in being a drug distributor, so Pfizer and Pfeezer have to take care of accounting and lawsuits for it. What a wimp.

• Pfeezer: Pfeezer is somewhat bitter compared to the other TAAGs, and this bitterness is reflected in the aspirin it provides. Despite the foul taste, Pfeezer's aspirin is significantly more powerful than both Pfizer's and Pfoozer's aspirin combined. Only 452 people are known to have had headaches that require Pfeezer-aspirin, these known as uberschisse-headaches. Using Pfeezer-aspirin without the intent of curing an uberschisse-headache can result in the explosion of one's sinuses. Such explosions are disgusting, and should be avoided.

Uses and Consumption

This is how aspirin works. Notice the arrows poking the brain.

Aspirin is used in the treatment of headaches, erectile dysfunction, heart attacks, menopause, depression, and emo. Direct inhalation through the nose is the most common means of consumption, although more enlightened users have achieved far superior results by using aspirin as an ointment applied to the eyeballs.

Pioneering doctors Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin are known to have attempted consuming aspirin as a pill, but Freud died on a boat cruise around the world with Darwin. Darwin was so distressed that he wrote a whole book about something completely different to take his mind off the subject. Aspirin in pill form is still experimental, and was declared heresy by the Church of Kansas Education in the Year of Their Lord 996 A.C.

Much later (ca. 1878), a separate case of controversy arose when conservative Christian mothers, led by Henry James, sued Bayer for using the phrase "Bayer as-pirin" in their ads, although the plaintiffs dropped the suit when closer analysis revealed that the offending phrase was actually "bare ass."

History and Facts

Rumors stating aspirin's association with communist agendas have become so pervasive that an investigation was warranted by the TAAGs in 1953, which revealed that the rumors had been started by Oprah as a subterfuge tactic. Misspelling the the word "subterfuge" has since been added to the list of things cured by aspirin.

1773: The fateful Boston Aspirin Party, in which disgruntled American colonists dressed up as pharmacists and threw aspirin into the Boston harbor, as a protest to absurd taxes placed on aspirin by the English Parliament. This proved to be a stupid idea and a waste of good drugs, so the disgruntled colonists tried again with the much lesser-known Boston Tea Party a week later, dressed up as Native Americans. Somehow, this led to the French Revolution.

1984: Big Brother's expert guidance has led to the production of more aspirin, despite the continuing war against East Asia Eurasia. Emmanuel Goldstein is responsible for your pain, but taking Big Brother's aspirin is the sign of a true Party comrade.

See Also

• Tylenol
• LSD
• Ritalin
• Medicine
• Oxytocin
• Drugs
• Pain
• Opium
• Morphine
• Paracetamol

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