tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post112966881052235143..comments2024-03-21T12:51:21.667-04:00Comments on Whisky Prajer: Smoker's Fugdpreimerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09905531259256800022noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1130273670019012892005-10-25T16:54:00.000-04:002005-10-25T16:54:00.000-04:00Nice!Nice!Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1130257655624986922005-10-25T12:27:00.000-04:002005-10-25T12:27:00.000-04:00Funny, I first appreciated a light whiff when work...Funny, I first appreciated a light whiff when working with the blue collars in British Columbia. When I was tree planting in the Northern bush I took up the habit myself on those occassions the black flies got too thick.<BR/><BR/>Dropped it immediately when they cleared up, who wants tar in their lungs?<BR/><BR/>Another fond memory was when we came back soaking from a cold rainy day in the bush and gathered 6 guys in a tent, hovering over the warmth of a single lantern and sharing a pipe. Looked around and wondered how many Indians did the same thing in that spot?Trent Reimerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11856687416662007848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129780689951197462005-10-19T23:58:00.000-04:002005-10-19T23:58:00.000-04:00What does that too-little-sleep clown DarkoV mean ...What does that too-little-sleep clown DarkoV mean by <B>"bitten cold"</B>? Is this some poorly constructed canine joke, a wag in your general direction? No, sorry, it's simply two fingers not knowing what a third one was doing. That should have been <B>"beaten cold"</B>.<BR/><BR/>So, <I>Bitte Baby</I>....DarkoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11572734667248592785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129769848301875902005-10-19T20:57:00.000-04:002005-10-19T20:57:00.000-04:00FCB Well, with that comment, you've got me bitten ...<B>FCB</B> Well, with that comment, you've got me bitten cold. Is there an <B>FCB Teenager Relief Fund</B> set up to receive our funds? Kitty litter? Next, you'll be saying that you apply deodorant stick on the bottoms of the kids' feet as they snore away.DarkoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11572734667248592785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129765256472164392005-10-19T19:40:00.000-04:002005-10-19T19:40:00.000-04:00You don't want to know.There is a section of our h...You don't want to know.<BR/>There is a section of our house where we had to put the cat tray to freshen it up.Xenoversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067895289265719351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129755568049945052005-10-19T16:59:00.000-04:002005-10-19T16:59:00.000-04:00"teenage fug"?! Eeewww! If Darko's commentary at ...<STRONG>"teenage fug"?!</STRONG> Eeewww! If Darko's <A HREF="http://howevercoyly.blogspot.com/2005/10/yes-friends-its-romantic-poetry-corner.html" REL="nofollow">commentary</A> at Bleak Mouse is any indication, I doubt I'll be waxing nostalgic about <EM>that</EM>, twelve years hence.<BR/><BR/>Would be a good name for a punk act, though.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129742582854177182005-10-19T13:23:00.000-04:002005-10-19T13:23:00.000-04:00Oh - nearly forgot - smokers fug has long been par...Oh - nearly forgot - <B>smokers fug</B> has long been part of the vernacular; nowadays however I am way more affected by <B>teenage fug</B>, which gathers most thickly about young boys.Xenoversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067895289265719351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129742439287204622005-10-19T13:20:00.000-04:002005-10-19T13:20:00.000-04:00I first began to smoke - along with all my pals - ...I first began to smoke - along with all my pals - while at the benches learning to chip and file and cut steel as an apprentice. We were Sparkies, and never meant for that filing crap, and were all so bored we began to smoke to relieve the tedium.<BR/><BR/>Our trainer at that time was an old cove who smoked "Capstan Full Strength", Navy issue, made by Players. You weren't a man until you could drain one of those.<BR/><BR/>Women in the workplace we could handle (the year behind mine was the first to ever admit female apprenticeships) but Industry in general has never recovered from the fuming Health Fascists with their whiney lungs and too-delicate work ethic. P'tah!Xenoversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12067895289265719351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129727943349759272005-10-19T09:19:00.000-04:002005-10-19T09:19:00.000-04:00Re: taking credit - I'm not sure where I picked up...Re: taking credit - I'm not sure where I picked up "smoker's fug", but I'm guessing it was either Amis or Waugh (pères).Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129727394596198272005-10-19T09:09:00.000-04:002005-10-19T09:09:00.000-04:00Export "A" - thanks for the fact-check. Yes, stil...Export "A" - thanks for the fact-check. Yes, still in the green box. My favorite <EM>packaging</EM> was Player's, with the sailor. I think Export "A" attempted something similar, using an apple-cheeked gal as mascot. If they'd put the girl on the blue box and filled it with DuMaurier cigarettes, I'd be a hacking, wheezy mess of a man right now.Whisky Prajerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14076228013022881173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329706.post-1129723774310261882005-10-19T08:09:00.000-04:002005-10-19T08:09:00.000-04:00You're dangerously close to writing copy for RJR ...You're dangerously close to writing copy for RJR ( http://www.smoke-free.ca/filtertips_001/Expert-eh.htm ), in that your piece brought me back to Montreal, an old girlfriend, and a pack of Export "A"'s. They're still in the green box, aren't they? <B>Smoker's Fug</B>? Your invention? Quite catchy. I barely ever smoked, but it was more tempting to do so in Canada. The packaging was so different there, comparable, nowadays, to the way Dunkin Donuts packaged their wares in a shoe-box shaped box and Krispy Kreme packed theirs in a dept-store-shirt-for-Christmas-box. Having a Canadian girlfriend who loved blowing intoxicating smoke in my face didn't discourage the smoking matter either. Due to the size of the cig box, there was a completely different ritual with carrying, lighting, and offering cigarettes up north. Very tempting. I've stoppped smoking long, long ago, but now....now I'm thinking about that <B>smoker's fug</B>. As long as I don't act on it, I'll be o.k.DarkoVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11572734667248592785noreply@blogger.com