>>>>>>I don't know if "allow" is the right word.
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>>>>>>I don't believe in stoning someone for petty crimes... I think they should be boiled in oil or tarred & feathered. :)
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>>>>>How about a petty crime like smoking a spliff? Do you think you aught to get stoned for doing that?
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>>>>spliff... is that what we call crack, or is it pot? Please speak English.... :)
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>>>Where you been the last few decades? Or maybe it's just an anglo-rasta expression. A spliff = a "reefer", "joint"
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>>My, my. Aren't we showing our age. 'Reefer'? I haven't heard that word since watching movies from the 40s.
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>Well actually I originally called it a spliff but as Sam didn't seem to be a hip cat to the very latest thing, daddyo, I thought I'd trawl through the old expressions, till I found one he'd be comfortable with - you dig?

My favourite is that the jazz players from the 40s and early 50s used to call it 'tea'.