[Ads-l] Root of Pook?

[Laurence Horn]

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> On Sep 24, 2016, at 8:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> On Sep 24, 2016, at 8:08 PM, Joel Berson <berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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>> I've been unable to decode "Pookie, blend me your loam."  Although something is stirring in, but not emerging from, the deep recesses.  Help, please.
>> 
>> 
>> Joel
> 
> Kookie, Kookie, lend me your comb.  From "77 Sunset Strip"; Kookie was played by Edd Byrnes.  Yup, two d's.
> 
> LH
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>>     From: Dave Hause <dwhause at CABLEMO.NET>
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU 
>> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 1:11 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ADS-L] Root of Pook?
>> 
>> Possibly, if there were a custom lawn care summer business, that could have 
>> been "Pookie, blend me your loam."
>> Dave Hause
>> -----Original Message----- 
>> From: Flourish Klink
>> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:02 PM
>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: Root of Pook?
>> 
>> Query: does this have anything to do with the classic prep nickname
>> "Pookie"?
>> 
>> On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 10:15 PM Dave Hause <dwhause at cablemo.net> wrote:
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>>> Lobeline, Lobeline
>>> Meanest gal
>>> That I ever seen,
>>> No one else
>>> Could be as mean
>>> As that pure wicked
>>> Lobeline.
>>> 
>>> Dave Hause
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: George Thompson
>>> Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2016 8:03 PM
>>> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>> Subject: Root of Pook?
>>> 
>>>      Last Week Mr. Thomas Brunton, his Wife and three or four more of his
>>> Family, in this City, had like to be poisoned by eating the Root of Pook,
>>> for Horse Radish; but by having the immediate Assistance of a Physician,
>>> they are now almost all recovered.
>>>      N-Y Mercury, March 26, 1764, p. 2, col. 2
>>> I don't see this elsewhere, and don't see it in the OED as such, but
>>> "pukeweed", below, sounds as if it might be a bad plant to eat by mistake.
>>> 
>>> GAT
>>> pukeweed  n. *N. Amer.* (now *hist.*) Indian tobacco,  *Lobelia inflata*,
>>> an erect, usually branched herb bearing racemes of bluish-violet or white
>>> flowers, which yields the alkaloid lobeline and was formerly used as an
>>> emetic.
>>> 1830    C. S. Rafinesque *Med. Flora* 2.22  *Lobelia inflata.
>>> Names..Vulgar.* Indian Tobacco, Wild Tobacco, Emetic Weed, Puke Weed.
>>> 1925    *Sci. Monthly* Aug. 207  For lobelia or the puke weed Bartram 
>>> made
>>> such remarkable claims that the passage is quoted verbatim.
>>> 1994    J. S. Haller *Med. Protestants* 41  Thomson established an
>>> alternative system of medical treatment. He depended most heavily on
>>> lobelia (his ‘pukeweed’).
>>> 
>>> --
>>> George A. Thompson
>>> The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
>>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>>> Univ. Pr., 1998.
>>> 
>>> But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
>>> your lowly tomb. . . .
>>> 
>>> L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", *Poems*.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
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