What is the origin of the use of the name "Poppy" Bush?

[Duer 157099]

Does it have anything to do with the drug trade?

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Poppy's been in the CIA since he graduated from Yale

The CIA funds many of their operations through drug smuggling. Do the math.

[Duer 157099]

2. I don't want to do math, this is about linguistics

I'm talking specifically about when the first use of the word "Poppy" was used for GHWB.

[Sanity Claws]

3. Misspelling of Poopy?

He is kind of poopy, you know.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. The first time I heard it,

they were talking about his grandkids and their affectionate name for him. My niece and nephew call my father the same thing, so I thought nothing about it.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

5. He is an Opium addict

[Journeyman]

6. Evidently, George W. gave his father, his "Pop," that nickname . . .

yet another reason I'd never use it, aside from my main reason, of course, which is the undesirability of seeming to be on familiar terms with anyone in that family.


http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/time/2001/02/12/dubbed.html

[uppityperson]

7. It is a nickname like daddy or grampa. Don't think drug trade.

[Richard D]

8. Poopy was a bit too graphic?

And slightly childish sounding.

[UTUSN]

9. Post #4 said it. It's an "uppercrust" nickname, that is all. n/t

[Cleita]

10. Yeah, it's all that Yaley frat boy nickname crap.

It defined those whom are insiders and everyone else who are the outsiders.

[izquierdista]

11. LIstening to his speeches

is more soporific than opium!

[Raine]

12. I don't know but I called him "poppy" because

of him being chimp's "pop". :shrug:

[Octafish]

13. When he was a kid, during the Depression, he was good for a Coke and a smile...

...He'd buy his pals a pop at the store. At the time, generosity was a rarity among certain circles and the name stuck.

The source of my story was a biography I heard about the guy on the radio in the early 1980s.

There is much more proof for his involvement with the drug trade as head of the CIA, such as his association with Manuel Noriega, as head of counternarcotics, among other things, for Reagan as veep; plus his many interesting connections through Big Money, such as BCCI and Riggs Bank. The guy makes the French Connection look like a piker.