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I had a cigarette once it was foul and my last (I was 11 at the time)I do make up with plonk on the indulgence side!!!! Cheers P -----Original Message----- From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roger Day Sent: 13 November 2007 06:36 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Cigarettes My father used to smoke Capstan Full Strength smelt bloody horrible, picture of a Victorian sailor on the front. He still smokes when he thinks mother isn't looking. His legs now have furred arteries. Roger On Nov 13, 2007 12:17 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I recall my father's cigarette packets from the 1940s - > de Reschke (sp?), named after an opera singer... > > Max > > > > On 13/11/07 11:03 AM, "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > M. Borges Accardi wrote: > >> Worst/best was a brand called Spartus, strong tobacco, blue box, no filter.? > >> Sold in Prague.? There were only two brands when I smoked--I forget the > >> other. Miserable, wonderful habit.? I quit when I could not smoke on the > >> plane. I saw the end was near. . .and could not face those long flights > >> "jonesing" a cigarette. > >> > > > > > > Before 6th Avenue in Manhattan upscaled into Avenue of the Americas, > > there were lots of tobacco shops that also hid the condoms behind the > > counter, hawked straight and gay porn both, and those > > cigarettes...oy...an Austrian brand called Amneris after the mezzo > > character in Verdi's *Aida*: just awful. I picked up some Russian brand > > for a play I was in; like the ones Frederick described, they came with a > > long cardboard tube and tobacco that could knock the wind out of you. > > > > Smoking was my really great guilty pleasure because I didn't feel guilty > > about it back when everyone smoked. Even as late as the late '90s I'd > > stand outside Morgan Stanley with other smokers. One of them, a > > statuesque brunette at whom I was making occhi di pesce, said "I really > > should NOT be doing this." "None of us should," I said. "So what's > > your excuse?" "I'm an opera singer," she replied, "dramatic soprano. I > > sing at the Met." I checked a program. She really did. And smoked. > > Then again...so did Caruso, Vickers, several others not as well known. > > > > Filthy smelly habit. Miss it! > > > > Ken > > > > ------------------ > > Kenneth Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com > > > > "I agree with the Chekhov character who, when in a crisis, he is > > reminded that 'this, too, shall pass,' responds 'Nothing > > passes.'"--Philip Roth > > -- > -- My Stuff: http://www.badstep.net/ "In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons." Roman Proverb -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.24/1115 - Release Date: 07/11/2007 09:21