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[PrejudiceSucks]

What, becoming an English Gentelwoman ?

[BeefontheBone]

Or even a gentlewoman - I edited your title BTW Prejudice - here at the Club we're sticklers for good old fashioned grammar and RP!

[taikara]

Well, Beef did force me to read up on your ten thousand (warning: possible hyperbole) political parties a few weeks ago. It's a possibility, to be sure.

Okay, okay... he didn't force me. He just used his British condescension to make me feel ignorant enough to do so on my own.   

[TheVoid]

I must say, both the chances of being American and English disgust me.     j/k

*takes off his hat, peers inside it, feels about inside it, knocks on the crown, puts it on again*

I guess I'll just have a seat and enjoy some good black tea we aquired after making all those Chinese chaps a bunch of opium junkies. Tsh.

*puffs opium from a long, thin pipe and just stares at George III's false hair*

[A. J. Raffles]

Obviously you've never read a proper Victorian novel featuring an opium addict. You don't puff opium. The thought!

[TheVoid]

A. J. Raffles, on Jun 9 2005, 09:32 PM, said:

Obviously you've never read a proper Victorian novel featuring an opium addict. You don't puff opium. The thought!

Forgive me, I promise that I'll get better with time

Adrian Singleton in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" had a long, thin pipe however.

[taikara]

I do believe that opium is puffable.

As far as anything that is smokable is puffable... Of course, I could be missing some British differentiation, but opium is a substance that is consumed by smoking...  

[TheVoid]

Who knows? Maybe Victorian opium addicts took it by rectum.  

Quoting Winston CHurchill;
"You can't be condamned for sodomy by an English jury, because half of it doesn't believe it to be phisically possible, and the other half practises it daily."

[A. J. Raffles]

Why, you eat it, of course. DeQuincey

[PrejudiceSucks]

ah yes, good book.

@Tai

I reckon you could smoke it, it would get into your bloodstream faster. I wouldn't puff it though. It's not cheap and we fought China over it.

It's where we get the word junkie from -

A junk is a merchant boat in China. We got them hooked on opium. So they stopped working and just smoked opium all day.

They became junkies.

[A. J. Raffles]

PrejudiceSucks, on Jun 10 2005, 12:14 PM, said:

A junk is a merchant boat in China. We got them hooked on opium. So they stopped working and just smoked opium all day.

Who, the boats?

[BeefontheBone]

I think the point was that while you can smoke it, you wouldn't puff it like pipe tobacco, it'd be wasteful. Sherlock Holmes takes opium in a couple of the less well-known books (it tends to get left out of TV adaptations and things though )

[A. J. Raffles]

BeefontheBone, on Jun 10 2005, 12:40 PM, said:

I think the point was that while you can smoke it, you wouldn't puff it like pipe tobacco, it'd be wasteful. Sherlock Holmes takes opium in a couple of the less well-known books (it tends to get left out of TV adaptations and things though )

He doesn't, actually. I can't vouch for the pastiches, but as for the original stories by Doyle, if you reread The Man with the Twisted Lip carefully, you'll find there's no proof that Holmes actually did smoke that pipe. Watson just says it looks "as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his fingers", but he never saw him smoking it.

[Doc Adrian]

He was more famous for his cocaine injections, but as the books came out he used it less and less.

I love the novels and short stories of Holmes.

The TV show was ok, but poor professor Moriarty had this habit of showing up alot more than he did in the books and falling off buildings in pits with a scream.

[TheVoid]

In "The picture of Dorian Gray" the protagonist used to go to "opium dens", and I'm pretty sure he smoked the stuff. I also remember reading in "The Count of Monte Cristo"          that Edmond Dantès ate some sort of green "hashish honey"....

But I guess this ain't The English Droogies Club    , so back to the old Brit chatting.

I really liked Conan Doyle's Holmes books, tho they're sometimes just unrealistic, you have to admire the twisted and amazing imagination of that writer.