Superstition held that fern seed renders one invisible.

And then while you're a cooking, they say, / Such a fogo beclouds all the room, / That the girls have to group out the way, / In search of the tongs or the broom.

Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus.

Owing to absence of a duty on spirits, there would be no need to denaturise it, which would make the alcohol cheaper still.