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Something Rhymes with Purple

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What a Lot of Cobblers From?

Pims is still popular. Pim says it's a commercial product, isn't it? Ad named after i imagine, is it mister pim? Ye, james pim, who, in the nineteenth century, was the owner, or the proprietor, of the london oyster bar where they first created these drinks. A cobbler - we don't know where that comes from. So it's wine, sugar, lemon ice, i think. And one is that it patches up the drinkers, in other words, much as you might patch up a shoe at the cobbler's. It kind of restores you and takes you to place, albeit temporarily.

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