Both were first-wave characters kids like me loved, and both went down like smoking stacks of useless slag, the latter only opening his mouth in a silent scream of defeat.
There was no smoking, no stacks of beer cans.
More than just postcard images, the city's smoking chimney stacks, ubiquitous black cabs and red double-decker buses all have long and tangled stories that are deeply embedded in London's traditions.
As the cast rolled away the grass and other rural props, seven smoking chimney stacks with accompanying steeplejacks rose from the ground, along with other industrial machinery: five beam engines, six looms, a crucible and a water wheel (one of the few items left from the rural scene).
Now Thom, you're still smoking like a stack.
I liked imagining those two poets smoking cigars and stacking their chips — a picture in itself.
A man who had visited the building on Monday led a reporter to a room where he said he had seen photographs of tortured bodies, but was disappointed to discover nothing but smoking ash where stacks of files had been the day before.
Thai honey banana sounds simple but the reality is so much more sublime: an improbably high stack of smoking, deep brown, eggroll-shaped pastries with a crunchy shell, smooth and meltingly soft banana and honey barely sweetening the whole.
(Hanlin also uses Twitter to pursue adult criminals, she said: "You cannot believe the number of targets in the drug world who will tweet pictures of themselves smoking marijuana, purchasing marijuana, stacking up bills next to marijuana").
And he gives us Paris in the mid-'60s, when he and other impecunious writers camped out at "Paris's premier English-language booksleepingsleeping among the second-story stacks and smoking some primo kef, bought from Algerian hustlers.
