Jackie asks:Is any of this related to slipping someone a mickey?

I think she was being humourous, but I looked it up anyway for my own edification.
Mickey Finn:

NOUN: Slang. An alcoholic beverage that is surreptitiously altered to induce diarrhea or stupefy, render unconscious, or otherwise incapacitate the person who drinks it.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably after a notorious Chicago bar shut down in 1903, allegedly because its customers were served spiked drinks and then robbed.

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