Thanks, Dave. The informer connotation new to me.
Bill
On 30/10/2014, at 9:29 AM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
> Thanks Bill, I always like your comments, and your approach. In the back of
> my mind with the (very deliberately) ungrammatical 'drop' were and was the
> old common use of the word as in 'the drop' while 'peach' is meant to wake
> the sense of an informer.
>
> Best
>
>
> Dave
>
> On 29 October 2014 04:24, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Like this bit particularly, David:
>>
>> On 29/10/2014, at 12:54 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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>>> ... his head
>>>
>>> Almost loll-loll lolling
>>>
>>> Drops like a peach, pillowed
>>>
>>> On nothing but memory
>>
>> Nothing like a peach drop - or a peach landing.
>>
>> Re-watched the Kipling tale, The Man who would be King the other night,
>> speaking of heads, some in that fine flick, unpillowed except by calico as
>> polo pucks.
>>
>> Bill
>>
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