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Well, it doesn’t happen that often, but if somebody does say, ‘Wow! Have you been taking acid?’ in that special voice it means only this – ‘Wow! I dislike either your idea or what you just said and in fact find it so alarming and shocking to my world view that the only way I can take it on board, or rather dismiss it, is by assuming that you were on drugs when you had/said it.’

In place of striking this hypothetical buffoon to the ground, why not remind them that most great ideas come from people who, at the time at least, were completely sober. That even in rock, where narcotics and ideas are often combined, the best and certainly the weirdest bits were invented before the drug pie was consumed. And that it is the crutch of a scoundrel to assume that just because Bozo Boy couldn’t have an unusual idea if his brains were on fire, that you or anyone else needs a crack sandwich to come up with something different.

And then strike them.