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I am glad to read that you are feeling better...I know of quite a few who have had to give up different vices...I feel as though I can just taste those peaches...It can be difficult to determine who gets what.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on August 26, 2012 at 9:32 AM
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Re: ADNOHR
coconut tobacco was a favourite do you know Adnohr those little sugar cigarettes that we had, the tips were extra tasty funny how one remembers these things. Give me a bite .
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 6:57 AM
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I can remember the licorice pipes and cigars and the chocolate cigarettes. They also has 'Popeye' candy cigarettes that were pure sugar, and pure delicious. One can only find them in specialty candy shops now 
. Very right of you to cut those things down; pesticides are not desirable, as you say. Good poem - I'm going to eat a peach now.
posted by
adnohr
on August 26, 2012 at 4:58 AM
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Re: Your lines about peaches brought T.S. Eliot to mind - you remember
Oh dear Pat As I said to Wiley I forget in those times the manufacturers may not have exported such novelties the Smoking outfits were sweets made to look like the real thing.
Pat dear I am not a scholar by any means having left school at fourteen. I really like that laid-back kind of poetry although to be honest I never read any apart from here as I am afraid I would copy the cute little bits.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 1:06 AM
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Re: so glad you aren't feeling stiff and sore and miserable and i would have
No cheeky bugger he should have given them to you, perhaps you should have got there earlier and had them as Billy buttons,
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 12:56 AM
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Re: Wiley
Wiley these were sweets made to look like the real thing perhaps they did not make it to your parts in those days.
try not to kick any rocks
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 12:53 AM
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Indeed you can my friend Amen
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 12:49 AM
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I cannot remember seeing men in short trousers in those old day Taps I have two nice pairs they must have been given in a pack of hiking clothes. I thought I might wear them indoors, but it has been too cold here this year.
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 12:48 AM
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Re: Glad you are on the mend, CCT
Hello Ray I think they need the sun to be at their best but I guess the one's you find have
had plenty.Thank you
posted by
C_C_T
on August 26, 2012 at 12:44 AM
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Glad you are on the mend, CCT
And the poem is quite flavourful; peaches are my fave fruit..:)
posted by
Katray2
on August 25, 2012 at 11:24 PM
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Great stuff here--I loved it.
I remember those smoking jackets especially in the old movies. So suave looking.
I also remember that when I was a child, my dad always wore suits with vests, white shirts, ties and a hat. The only time he didn't was if he was working in the garden or building something. Then he changed into overalls. He never went anywhere without nice clothes unless he was going to work. Then he wore khakis. People really dress down these days.
posted by
TAPS.
on August 25, 2012 at 8:35 PM
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Your post today is wonderful of course, but reminds me of my diying peach tree which once had the best peaches...Could we have a moment of silence please, for my old peach tree?
posted by
UtahJay
on August 25, 2012 at 7:35 PM
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CCT
I'm happy you survived the fall and I too am surviving my bruised foot.
I love liquorice and Guinness, drank lots of that in the 50's when I was there.
Smoked a pipe too but never with syrups or coconut. I never had quince but I like peaches. Good post Bro.
posted by
WileyJohn
on August 25, 2012 at 4:04 PM
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so glad you aren't feeling stiff and sore and miserable and i would have
kept the peach tree to myself and I did keep a patch of mushrooms to myself except the workman of the time found them and took them home to his wife in his hat. Never liked the man after that!
posted by
Kabu
on August 25, 2012 at 3:00 PM
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This brings back wonderful memories of our peach trees growing up on a farm. I for one, can't blame you for keeping them to yourself when you were a kid and it was your find. Sharing some now would more than compensate in my humble opinion.
posted by
mariss9
on August 25, 2012 at 1:18 PM
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Your lines about peaches brought T.S. Eliot to mind - you remember
his lines: "I grow old, I grow old.
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled....
Shall I walk along the beach?
Do I dare to eat a peach?...."
He was from my neck of the woods - St. Louis - and ended up in England. Our teachers used to play recordings of him reading his own works, deep gravelly voice with stern emphases and measured tempo. It is so good that you trimmed your hedge and avoided pesticides. You are a gentleman and a scholar with all the flavored cigarette outfits that are totally new to me. :)
posted by
Pat_B
on August 25, 2012 at 12:20 PM
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