bromo-phizzer

Updated: May 3, 2025

So the upshot of it was that instead of taking chloroform, Pupkin stepped up to the counter of the fountain and he had a bromo-seltzer with cherry soda, and after that he had one of those aerated seltzers, and then a couple of lemon seltzers and a bromo-phizzer. I don't know if you know the mental effect of a bromo-seltzer. But it's a hard thing to commit suicide on. You can't.

Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town