You do not fuck with the green fairy. the green fairy fucks with you and steals your wallet either after drinking. Or in rare cases, after giving you a good night. THEN it smacks you in the face.
.............personally, I'm still skeptical of a lot of modern absinthe stories for a number of reasons, and tend to believe the interpretation that it's like "woo absinthe is soooo crazy" and more "cheap-ass historical absinthe was badly distilled and contained a lot of hazardous impurities." >_>
This is slander. I said I was going to dump my concoction, not the bottle. I also intend to try it again with a proper ratio. I didn't hate it. In fact it smells cool.
in other news, I do not recommend hangovers, my one definite hangover experience was like the flu and a migraine had a baby