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Phenodihydrochloride Benzelex

what is its street name?

who supplys it?

who invented?

why?

no google etc

....yes

Is it Florizal disinfectant?


Florizal Street was the original name for Coronation Street

nothing to do with that at all

no either

fairly interesting....not quite interesting, so only +1 i'm afraid

I missed a ... Thank you, Taff

It's not a real drug is it?

Dare I say "Withnall"?

+3

expand!!!?

I think it's street name is The Embalmer - but it's been a while - I'll have to shuffle through the grey cells for a while.

+3 the embalmer

Withnall? As in 'and I'?

Anti freeze?

damn!!!!!if i had thought this would go thet way i would have anti freeze, right withnail

Phenodihydrochloride Benzelex

Ok, something called the embalmer, mentioned in Withnail and I.

Who supplies it...

Who invented it and why? (well it wasn't Zaphod Beeblebrox, unfortunately...)

If only you could tell something from the name - apart from it looks like its a compound (well <duh&gt of Phenol (?), (HCl)2 and Benzene and...?

With a name like embalmer you might think that someone that deals with dead people might supply it...

There was a time, many years ago, when I was a working musician, when a product by the street name of Embalming Fluid was available on the street drug market, and I seem to remember it was PHC "Back of a lorry" veterinary paralyzing agent. But I was high at the time, I may not remember it clearly ... Is that Donald Duck with a cigar??

sounds like you're describing ketamine - a horse tranquiliser.

Oh no, it wasn't Donald Duck. Horse tranquilizer sounds right. But the idea of PHC still sounds like it might apply. Is that a Womble in a tube top and platforms?

I have a vague recollection of PHB being some sort of Drug, and that fits the name above - but I suspect a klaxon for such obviousness...

What if anything was PHB used for.. More head scratching required...

OK, on another tack.. If it featured in Withnail and I, is there any reason to think that it was/is a REAL drug?

If not then, at a guess, the supplier would be the character that gave it to Withnail....

And the "inventor" would be the writer of the script, or the director...

spot on

full marks

now for a bonus

what was the dealers name

and what is the connection with the title

He was played by Ralph Brown. Was he called the doctor?

Right, OK, so time to guess at names then, or dig out withnail and I...

Hmm....