Ah yes, Dave, 'the drop' made it to the Antipodes, often, shamefully, The Aboriginal Antipodes. US lynchers and zappers more. 'Peach' is really opening up now.
Bill
> On 30 Oct 2014, at 10:41 pm, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Bill I suspect it came out by way of 'peach' meaning soft and possibly open
> to anybody (I'm afraid there's an awful sexual implication as is so often)
> perhaps 'open lips' is the nugget. I notice I failed to mention the
> seemingly obvious too - that 'the drop' meant hanging in the UK and
> presumably other places but I don't know about the US.
>
> Best
>
>
> Dave
>
>> On 30 October 2014 07:28, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> Like this bit particularly, David:
>>>>
>>>>> On 29/10/2014, at 12:54 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> ... 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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