>>>>>>>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?
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>You may want to hang around some people aged 15-25 and update the lingo a bit. Hip cat, daddyo, and dig are about 50 years old. I think the last guy who felt comfortable using them was Sammy Davis, Jr.

Oh for cryin' out loud, I was using those expressions ironically, as a joke, to go with the accusation that I was using old-fshioned expressions. Like I didn't know that?! BTW, you missed "the very latest thing" which dates back to racoon coats and straw boaters, which later became "all the rage" in the 50s, then "in" in the swinging 60s, and is now probably "right out there" or some such. "Dig" is probably now "'Stan' wha'm'sayin'?"