Mithridatization: Whether you're the Dread Pirate Roberts or Mithridates VI Eupator (who lends his name to the process), mithridatization is the process of slowly poisoning yourself to make yourself immune to a deadly substance. It takes, of course, a great amount of patience -- not something to try and speed up by doubling the dose -- and the process could go wrong in so, so many ways, thus the average person might not want to start a regimen of arsenic Eggos in the morning just yet. If you're the kind of person who risks being poisoned on a daily basis, however, it may be worth the time.
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Does it work with chocolate?!? I think I have a pretty high tolerance for the stuff.
--Dakota Lifestyle: Beyond the Weather , 11/14/2007 17:21:31
I suppose so, but in a bad way -- chocolate's effects being reduced to an imperceptable nothing? A fate worse than death, I'd think. Although if you were a PUPPY, chocolate would be poisonous to you -- and thus mithridatization might be an asset.
--Derek , 11/16/2007 11:12:00