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Poppy-show ting....fireOriginally posted by Tropicana View PostYou've never seen people wearing these blugiant?
I am confused I thought the poppy bizniz started in Canada. Wasn't Flanders Fields written by a Canadian...John Alexander McCrae?Comment
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started in the USOriginally posted by Tropicana View PostYou've never seen people wearing these blugiant?
I am confused I thought the poppy bizniz started in Canada. Wasn't Flanders Fields written by a Canadian...John Alexander McCrae?Comment
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'Losing my husband when I was just 21, I vowed to always sell poppies': Britain's longest serving poppy seller, 91, is back on the streets for her 75th year
Olive Cook started selling poppies in 1938 and has sold over 30,000
Great-great-grandfather Albert Joyner, 102, is Britain's oldest poppy seller
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Britain’s longest-serving poppy seller is raising money for the Royal British Legion for the 75th consecutive year having sold over 30,000 poppies in nearly eight decades.
Devoted Olive Cooke, 91, vowed to always sell poppies after her husband Leslie was killed in action during the Second World War when she was just 21.
She began selling poppies in 1938 but the flowers took on new significance following his death on naval duty just two years after their wedding.
Mrs Cooke has maintained her hard work ever since raising thousands for charity over the past eight decades.
Mother-of-three Mrs Cooke was back on the streets this week in the run up to Remembrance Day, continuing to raise vital funds for the much-loved organisation.
She said: 'I will never give up - it is important to remember the people who died in the wars, and are still dying now.
'It was my main interest following the war and I became the standard bearer in the Bedminster Down Women’s section and took office of secretary and later chairman.
'My father, Fred Canning, was in the Royal Irish Regiment and he had told me tales of how he fought at Gallipoli in the First World War, ever since I was a little girl sitting on his knee.
'I carried the standard for 54 years until 1998. I sold poppies every year and was given a special medal from the Royal British Legion for 66 years of continuous selling.
'I’ve now added even more years to that and am up to 75 now.'
Mrs Cooke, who lives in Fishponds, Bristol, met husband Leslie Hussey-Yeo in 1939, a handsome sailor with the Royal Navy who was about to leave the service and settle down.
But the start of the Second World War meant he had to continue serving on submarines and he was killed in action in 1943 when Mrs Cooke was just 21.
She said: 'The poppies took on a whole new meaning for me when I lost my first husband, Leslie, in 1943.
'We just had two-and-a-half years together when he was killed on the submarine HMS Thunderbolt. It was lost in the Sicily invasion, March 1943, by depth charge.
'Losing my husband when I was just 21 years of age, I vowed to always sell poppies.He was a loving and genuine man, and I had great times with him in those couple of years we had together.'
Mrs Cooke proudly wears her British Royal Legion medal alongside the distinguished service medal Leslie was awarded after his death for bravery in hazardous conditions.
She is also helping to raise £10,000 for Help for Heroes by teaming up with local singer John Billitteri by getting one million pennies of donations.
Mrs Cooke added: 'When the men come back from Afghanistan, some with limbs gone, they may be helped firstly by Help for Heroes, but then the Legion will also help them later in life.
'Both groups do excellent work.'
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is only when yuh twanging sey poppy show...is "pappyshow"..Originally posted by blugiant View PostWhen its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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no mii leff wen teenagers ann mii neva wear dem inn da school mii went to. so wen was poppy day?Originally posted by Gen View PostComment
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I was told that "Pappy Show" came from the attempt of Africans in Jamaica to say "Puppet Show" but I don't know if that is true.
Found this...maybe I WAS given the right information:
PappyshowFirst the Scottish, then the Caribbean form of 'puppet show' which can also mean
(verb) To mock, to make fun of.
(noun) A fool, a buffoon.
(noun) Mockery, ridicule.
(adj) Ridiculous, ludicrous.Comment
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yuh ever hear of Curphey Home?Originally posted by blugiant View Post
si a story from last week here:
When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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I said I DON'T know that for sure...it's what I was told ....by my Mom if you must know.....long ago....long before the Internet was invented. What I found on line kinda confirms it.Originally posted by blugiant View PostComment
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read it on Jamaicans.com...Originally posted by blugiant View PostWhen its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....Comment
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