@Ireland...guess we've both showing our age! @polyarny...could you possibly be aware of puff the magic dragon? Hell, given your age, I doubt that your daddy was even born yet!LOL Oh, I thin that thread is called "word association". manatee - democrat
@ Ireland Know I'm showing my age. I remember them all and then some. Like the Shadow and Gunsmoke on the Radio, not to mention Amos n Andy.
@gerry1, the puff the magic dragon that im talking about is probably a little different than the one you and ireland are talking about...but then agian maybe not...the person that drew that cartoon was probably on something anyway, you never know. anyway... walrus-republican
@polyarmy: Puff the magic dragon: I strongly suspect PP&M were puffing away when they recorded the song back in the early 1960s (Long before you were a twinkle in your daddy's eye...hell, your daddy might not have been a twinkle in your grandaddy's eye ... hell, I'm getting old!) I'm not sure that they wrote it though; I'll have to look that one up. long neck geese - republicans
All you need to know about Puff the Magic Dragon! Not about pot. http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/puff.htm
@garmoon hahaha thanks ill keep that in mind, ill have to check that site out. @gerry1 your probably right PP&M were most likely smoking it up when they wrote that song. but if i may say most of the songs from when you and my dad were my age and younger, the writers DID do alot of that stuff, though it wasnt pot most of the time. no disrespect intended of course to any of those writers, they came up with some good songs, i love to listen to that stuff. anyway... muskrat=democrat
@garmoon...that was actually very interesting. I seem to remember reading that PP&M hadn't written it...seems they didn't write the words. I got a kick from the mention of "ogden nash" is the article; I posted a short poem of his earlier in this thread...hysterically silly stuff. It's true there wasn't much pot smoking going on in the mainstream in 1959 ... nor really in 1962 when the song came out ... as I think back on it anyway. My Dad was born in 1906 and will 100 years old in June. He's never admitted it but gets this silly smile sometimes when we talked about pot. No one ever believes me but dad was a farmer and he maintains that they use to plant pot intermittently among the crops and strike at the leaves of the pot plants; the odor apparantly kept bugs away from the crops and functioned as a natural insect repellant. No one ever believes it but I do; dad would have no reason to make up something like that and at his age, he's great to listen to...a hysterically funny wealth of information, he is!
I've heard from many older farmers. I'll have to do a little research one of these days just to send a link when someone doesn't believe me. I don't know why people would think that me or even my dad would make that up.
I cannot believe that your father would make up stuff like that. I think that a lot of people wish their relatives were squeaky clean & they have never done wrong. The truth in the end, is that they are people & people like to have a good time, sticking it to the man is an occupation that will never cease. Rebelling against authority is a life long goal to most right minded people, as long as no-body gets hurt. It's just a shame that your relatives won't believe him, more fool them! I love talking to the oldies, they are most entertaining & immensely wise. Ignore them at your peril!
@gerry1 Here a paragraph mentioning marijuana and insect repellant: Before worldwide laws against cannabis were introduced over the last few decades, there was no real incentive to breed plants specifically for low THC yield. There is no known genetic link between qualities desirable in fibre plants and low THC-yield. In fact, since the resin acts as a natural repellant against insects and other pests it is likely that more resinous plants are more robust. Thus plants could be usable both as industrial crops grown for fibre and seed and for medical and recreational purposes. Here's the link: http://www.taima.org/en/thc.htm
@garmoon...thanks for the link! That was really interesting. It isn't my relatives who don't believe him, it the people I tell. Actually, my family is from Quebec; farmers in summer; lunberjacks in winter. But even if the were in the US, there weren't many drug laws in those days...hell, you could go into any pharmacy and by barbiturate, morphine ... actually, laudinum, and all sort of other goodies...coke was a perfectly legal social drug. I think it was all legal in the US until the harrison act of 1929...if memory serves. Thanks again for the link....really interesting! Dad has great stories...the first car ever saw; hearing a roar and looking up to see a machine flying! etc etc. Great stories about how they shared property with the Indians in Quebec. (Americans fought Indians...we Quebecois got along so well, you'll hardly find one of us without really high cheekbones LOL!)
