"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
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In an acidic environment, such as wine, the
calcium in the Goat Hairball will bind up Arsenic, which was the most
commonly used poison. One has to winder about the test program,
though.

Just what in hell possessed the first person to try it? I mean, just what
were the conditions that allowed someone to notice? Usually, if a goat hair
ball were in my wine, I think I would have first done something unpleasant
to the wine handler, then tossed it, and probably never noticed that this
time I hadn't keeled over.