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johnfowles · 04-22-2004, 09:59 AM

quote:Originally posted by Janice:
on the other hand, I'm pretty sure John doesn't smoke
Interesting
In my family a poof was something you put your feet up on (as you relaxed in an armchair enjoying a fag possibly!!
My Collins Concise UK English Dictionary defines poof as
"Brit slang a male homosexual" ( half of a Californian married couple??)
and fag as
1. a boring or wearisome task
2. Brit (esp. formerly) a young public schoolboy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect (note public school in this UK usage is of course a fee-paying Private school
obviously a misnomer to confuse visiting yanks!!
or
Brit sl a cigarette
or sl chiefly U.S. short for faggot (Sl chiefly US a male homosexual-the other half of a Californian married couple??)
(Thinks I mustn't be too rude about California why this is becoming accepted practice right here in New Jersey too)
anyway I used the term fag on my Nevil Shute web site section at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/nevilshute
complete with a link to an encyclopedic definition of fagging that I found
and right Janice I thankfully after some 40 years quit the weed in January 2000 after a full 40 years of puffing/coughing away.(it's not the cough that carries you off it's the coffin they carries you off in). Yes after thousands of attempts at giving up. (You know you always will give up the next one!) I found that my 4 months in hospital after my January 2000 stroke did the trick and truthfully I very rarely even think about it nowadays. So I am naturally most concerned if the similar condition that Gord endured did not make him quit too.Mind you just before I had the stroke I was working far too hard and through the night so that for each of three succesive nights I probably chain-smoked though about three packets hence
I strongly believe that the heightened level of Carbon Monoxide in my blood led to the near fatal blood clot. As it happenned the stroke actually probably saved my life as having shortly thereafter arrived in NJ newly married I was checked over and a heart surgeon diagnosed severe heart problems necessitating a quintuple heart by pass in October 2000.
so now you know where I stand so poof I'll be off!!!

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[This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited April 22, 2004).]

04-22-2004, 09:59 AM	#16
johnfowles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: New Jersey U.S.A. ex UK and Canada Posts: 4,846	quote:Originally posted by Janice: on the other hand, I'm pretty sure John doesn't smoke Interesting In my family a poof was something you put your feet up on (as you relaxed in an armchair enjoying a fag possibly!! My Collins Concise UK English Dictionary defines poof as "Brit slang a male homosexual" ( half of a Californian married couple??) and fag as 1. a boring or wearisome task 2. Brit (esp. formerly) a young public schoolboy who performs menial chores for an older boy or prefect (note public school in this UK usage is of course a fee-paying Private school obviously a misnomer to confuse visiting yanks!! or Brit sl a cigarette or sl chiefly U.S. short for faggot (Sl chiefly US a male homosexual-the other half of a Californian married couple??) (Thinks I mustn't be too rude about California why this is becoming accepted practice right here in New Jersey too) anyway I used the term fag on my Nevil Shute web site section at:- http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/nevilshute complete with a link to an encyclopedic definition of fagging that I found and right Janice I thankfully after some 40 years quit the weed in January 2000 after a full 40 years of puffing/coughing away.(it's not the cough that carries you off it's the coffin they carries you off in). Yes after thousands of attempts at giving up. (You know you always will give up the next one!) I found that my 4 months in hospital after my January 2000 stroke did the trick and truthfully I very rarely even think about it nowadays. So I am naturally most concerned if the similar condition that Gord endured did not make him quit too.Mind you just before I had the stroke I was working far too hard and through the night so that for each of three succesive nights I probably chain-smoked though about three packets hence I strongly believe that the heightened level of Carbon Monoxide in my blood led to the near fatal blood clot. As it happenned the stroke actually probably saved my life as having shortly thereafter arrived in NJ newly married I was checked over and a heart surgeon diagnosed severe heart problems necessitating a quintuple heart by pass in October 2000. so now you know where I stand so poof I'll be off!!! ------------------ My Gordon Lightfoot webring starts at http://www.johnfowles.org.uk/lightfoot [This message has been edited by johnfowles (edited April 22, 2004).]