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The Anarchist's Cookbook was a book [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?|written to protest]] [[The Vietnam War]] that contained various half baked recipes for things like phone phreaking and, most controversially, building homemade explosives. However, it's really infamous for two things:
The Anarchist's Cookbook was a book [[What Do You Mean It's Not Didactic?|written to protest]] [[The Vietnam War]] that contained various half baked recipes for things like phone phreaking and, most controversially, building homemade explosives. However, it's really infamous for two things:


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* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Apparently, baking banana peels activates a hallucinogenic chemical called "bananadine" which can be used to get high. Although this is 100 percent fiction, that little fact hasn't stopped countless failed attempts by the type of people who try to buy 10 bottles of Robotussin.
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: Apparently, baking banana peels activates a hallucinogenic chemical called "bananadine" which can be used to get high. Although this is 100 percent fiction, that little fact hasn't stopped countless failed attempts by the type of people who try to buy 10 bottles of Robotussin.
* [[The Movie]]: There's actually a movie named after it. How is it? Even though it came out in 2002, it is so [[Strawman Political|straw-tastic]], it makes anti-communist propaganda from the fifties look like a [[Michael Moore]] documentary.
* [[The Movie]]: There's actually a movie named after it. How is it? Even though it came out in 2002, it is so [[Strawman Political|straw-tastic]], it makes anti-communist propaganda from the fifties look like a [[Michael Moore]] documentary.
* [[Old Shame]]: The writer of the book, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Powell_(author) William Powell], later renounced the views and content expressed in it and tried to have it pulled from publication, but discovered that he had accidentally signed the rights over to the publisher, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyle_Stuart Lyle Stuart]. To give you an idea about how things have changed: Powell is now a devout Christian and administer of an international charity to help teachers.
* [[Old Shame]]: The writer of the book, [[wikipedia:William Powell (author)|William Powell]], later renounced the views and content expressed in it and tried to have it pulled from publication, but discovered that he had accidentally signed the rights over to the publisher, [[wikipedia:Lyle Stuart|Lyle Stuart]]. To give you an idea about how things have changed: Powell is now a devout Christian and administer of an international charity to help teachers.
* [[Take That]]: Anarchist collective [[Pun|CrimethInc]] published [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipes_for_Disaster a book] titled '''''An''''' ''Anarchist Cookbook'' that is more in line with their definition of anarchism.
* [[Take That]]: Anarchist collective [[Pun|CrimethInc]] published [[wikipedia:Recipes for Disaster|a book]] titled '''''An''''' ''Anarchist Cookbook'' that is more in line with their definition of anarchism.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: The guide to phone phreaking shows this book as a relic of [[The Seventies]].
* [[Technology Marches On]]: The guide to phone phreaking shows this book as a relic of [[The Seventies]].
* [[Toad Licking]]: The book contains a recipe to make dried toad skin powder for smoking. It's not good for your toad karma.
* [[Toad Licking]]: The book contains a recipe to make dried toad skin powder for smoking. It's not good for your toad karma.
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