Coke Enneday: The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1916

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish is a 1916 short film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Bessie Love. In this unusually broad comedy for Fairbanks, the acrobatic leading man plays “Coke Enneday,” a cocaine-shooting detective parody of Sherlock Holmes given to injecting himself with cocaine from a bandolier of syringes worn across his chest and liberally helping himself to the contents of a hatbox-sized round container of white powder labeled “COCAINE” on his desk. The movie, written by D.W. Griffith, Tod Browning, and Anita Loos, displays a surreally lighthearted attitude toward cocaine and opium. Fairbanks otherwise lampoons Sherlock Holmes with checkered detective hat, coat, and even car, along with the aforementioned propensity for injecting cocaine whenever he feels momentarily down, then laughing with delight. In addition to observing visitors at his door on what appears to be a closed-circuit television referred to in the title cards as his “scientific periscope,” a clocklike sign on the wall reminds him to choose between EATS, DRINKS, SLEEPS, and DOPE.

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PS: If you think I’m misusing words, perhaps you should back up that criticism with something factual. Or do I ask too much?

I’m just being helpful by pointing out Mr. Week’s unfortunate slip into hypocrisy. He’s criticizing US drug laws, and offers as part of his argument for reform the fact that nations with liberal drug laws also have liberal plans to make sure their citizens, drug addicts or not, have access to health care. He’s correct in finding that correlation, of course, even though his ideologically driven views will never permit him to see it for what it is.

You would be referring to those socialistic European countries, right Bob? How dare a nation of socialists decide to take care of its fellow citizens with, you know, actual health care!