If you smoked PLAYER’S Cigarettes do you remember this story

[Jim Brady]

John can you remember the story on the back of the WOODBINE packet ?
John Wallace

A lad go's with his mother to the park,his mother decides to go skinny dipping in the lake.She tells her son if the park keeper comes shout me.The park keeper came so the son shouted to his mother.What did he shout ?the answer is on the back of the Woodbine packet.
Regards.
Jim.B.

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[John Arton]

Senior Service and Capstan Full Strength were my choice of unfiltered cigarettes.
As 3rd mate on a VLCC sailing with an ex. Empress boat captain who was a 100 a day Senior Service man (he lived to a ripe old age despite his long term habit), tying up in Ras Tanura I was constantly having to remind him that he could not go out onto the bridge wing with a lighted cigarette. Henceforth it was my job, in addition to relaying helm orders and keeping the bell book, it was job to keep a lit senior service going inside the wheelhouse so he could dash in and take a quick drag on a lit cigarette before going back outside to stand with the pilot on the bridge wing. Mind you all that dashing back and forth must have helped his fitness as we had great big bridge wings and only a small wheelhouse relative to the beam of the VLCC.
rgds
JA

[Kenneth Kenny]

Hi Jim,the answere his Diplowmar(New that when I was about aged Fithteen.Ken.R634898.

[Jim Brady]

Yes Kenny being a Bootle boy you would know that Dip-Lo-Ma.By the way Ken do you still go to Crosby library once a week if so they are giving away a free book at the moment (whilst stocks last) Shipwrecks of the Sefton Coast,so don't forget to ask on your next visit.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[Charlie Hannah]

Marion Woodies were Coffin nails.Cheers.

[Doc Vernon]

Indeed those wild woodbines were coffin nails for sure!
But with the price at that time well why not! LOL

Remember the tins of Mills Cigarettes we used to get with the Windmill on the front! also not too bad a smoke!
And State Express three 555's
Cheers

[happy daze john in oz]

There were Woodbines and ships woodbines a bit fatter.
Cape Town to Cairo, C to C or coffin nails to coffin as they were also known.
Capstan Full strength I enjoyed along with Markovich Black and white and Sobraine black lable. Rolled in black paper.
But for some time I was on Chesterfields at about 100 a day, two puffs of one and they were about gone, not much in them.

[joseph connor]

My older brother Eddy , (no longer with us) was at sea in the 50,s,he brought one of them home, had forgotten all about it till you said.
Tell you a funny story, whilst still a school boy , was sitting at home with mam and dad listening to the radio, Pet Clark was singing"Sailor stop your roaming",she had just said those words when the kitchen door opened and Eddy who had been away about six months said" lend us half a dollar for the taxi ". We all laughed at that for years.thanks for listening .joe. have put this in wrong place it was in response to Neil #2. bed time me thinks.

[j.sabourn]

#11... As woodbines were commonly known as Willy Woodbines, did it have anything to do with his willy. What about Pasha and Turf, and all those alluring ciggies of Japan, Peace and such like all heavily scented. JS

[Dennis McGuckin]

Used to roll my own.
Ships Capstan in a tin.
Used to keep a bit of cabbage leaf in it to keep it moist.