Talk:Poppy

message: There is an important usage of red poppies in "the wolf" by Giovanni Verga.
DUS7IN (talk) 02:38, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literature 

message: ...not just from the red flower that grew in great numbers but also from the actual blood of the dead soldiers that lay scattered and untended to on the otherwise barren battlegrounds"
Um, no way. Blood quickly oxidizes, turning brown. There is no way a battlefield was blood red for very long, as this seems to imply. If it is meant to symbolize blood spilled in battle, fine. Say that, and not silliness like this.
Why are you reading this? Random, huh. It is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo long, don't you think?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.30.107.227 (talk) 17:36, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A rusty brown all over the land would probably be some pretty red dirt. It doesn't necessarily mean 🔴 red, my dude. (sorry if you get notified by this I just am really high and can't restrain myself because this is such a bizarre perspective to me lol) 96.3.27.144 (talk) 00:01, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual blood? 

message: I've recently taken pictures of dried poppy pods which may be used here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedawson/358899904/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikedawson/358899906/ -- Mike 01:38, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: In Canada, poppies are made of felt, not paper. I think this should be mentioned. I also think this article should not be merged. --Dallin Tanjo22 19:04, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Felt 

message: Poppies do influence the testing for Opiates. It sometimes happens here in Germany when the police controls drivers in the Evening if they are under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs. I haven't seen the Episode of MythBusters that supposedly disproved this rumour, but I did take the time to look at the episode guide of the Mythbusters Fanclub, and there it says the Episode actually confirmed the myth. Someone didn't do their homework, it seems. (For completeness' sake, the episode guide says that a European company confirmed that "the test can detect 300 to 1,200 nano grams (that’s one-billionth of a gram) of codeine." ). 
(It's actually the metabolites of morphine that the codeine was demethylated into that the test detects) -- Mike (talk) 16:40, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.--Curtis Clark 16:17, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Then fix it. (Actually, urban legends can be true; their "legendary" status is among people who have no clear evidence of the truth or falsity of the story.)--Curtis Clark 13:26, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poppies *do* test positive 

message: There should be somewhere something about ANZAC day and poppies! --Caleb 04:56, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ANZAC Day 

message: We need a clarification as to whether only opium poppies produce seeds and parts that contains opium alkaloids or that ANY poppies species produce opium alkaloid parts including the red poppies. Is there any difference in the opium content among difference species? Would be nice to have a comparison. --Kvasir 06:26, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opium content

message: Reverted some spellings to American English as per Wikipedia policy. Paddy
:Which policy is that? According to Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English, "If an article is predominantly written in one type of English, aim to conform to that type rather than provoking conflict by changing to another." As far as I can tell, the article was in Commonwealth English, and you only changed part of that to American.--Curtis Clark 14:04, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The official policy is to follow the original author. Take the history back to the beginning. In this case the original was in British English. Pollinator 02:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version of English 

message: What exactly is a 'double poppy' as referred to in Katherine Mansfield's 1912 short story, "The Woman at the Store"? Zigzig20s 18:13, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double poppy? 

message: A second meaning for the depiction and use of poppies in Greco-Roman myths is the symbolism of the bright scarlet colour as signifying the promise of resurrection after death. Robert Graves, The Greek Myths, 24. 15 p 96, 
Are you sure this is right, resurrection is a very specific term meaning coming back in a real physical body, while death in Greek thought involved  an ethereal body on a different plane. Just wondering if you have the right term. Hardyplants 18:12, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resurrection  

message: "Poppy seeds contain only trace amounts of opium, not enough to get a high, but enough to influence a drug test. Experienced testers can tell the difference between use of heroin and consumption of poppy seeds by the presence of thebaine, a chemical only found when the person tested has been eating the seeds."  pixiequix 17:25, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thebaine 

message: I'm not familiar with the term Agglo-American.
Meanwhile, it seems this article is having a hard time deciding whether to be part of a scientific treatise or a page in an underground drug reference. Cumbre 21:44, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A misspelling for Anglo-American it is safe to assume. 4.255.51.163 (talk) 03:39, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agglo-American? 

message: The opiate test results after eating poppy are not at all false positives, but just positives. Why should it matter whether you eat poppy or smoke opium as long as the opiates end up in the blood (and urine)? Icek (talk) 15:07, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Because eating the seeds is legal, it isn't drug abuse. It causes no hallucination or other negative effects on neural system: and besides it's an important Eastern European tradition. --Zslevi (talk) 22:48, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's a false positive with respect to legality, but not a false positive of the opiate test. I suppose small amounts of opium would have the same effects (or rather lack of effects) as eating poppy seeds. (Why has being a tradition anything to do with this?) Icek (talk) 20:19, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The content being discussed here has been moved to the relevant article: Poppy seed.  --Una Smith (talk) 04:28, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  False positive? 

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message: Apparently remembrance day poppies in the USA, Canada, England and Scotland are all different. Can somebody find photos?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.76.213.203 (talk) 03:22, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remembrance poppies 

message: </gallery>we are the dead short days ago
left felt dawn and to glow
loved and were loved
and now we lie in 
flaunder fields
this is part of a song called flanders fields
i thinck it is made from some one called (Jhon mcly) some thing like that.well i have got to say that in a play on monday which is tommorow and i realy like the song well poam it reminds me of when all of the soliders died in the flanders field 
but i call it poppy field for short and today was remembarance sunday so at eleven oclock you would be  quiet and still on the inside and out side and maybe  close your eyes if it would help and thick about when the soliders died died and the poppy fields for one or two miunites.
--78.147.186.242 (talk) 17:29, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:                                                                            flanders field! 

message: This article has been getting an overhaul, with much content being merged into other articles.  Given what content remains, a rename (page move) of the article may be called for.  Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Plants#Poppy. --Una Smith (talk) 06:04, 10 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope of this article 

message: I added a notice to the talk page advising editors that this article is subject to a one-revert-rule restriction with respect to the Macedonia naming issue (see the 2009 "Macedonia 2" Arbitration Committee ruling, WP:ARBMAC2#Tagging articles).  I did this because the current text of the article mentions that a poppy is depicted on certain Macedonian bank notes.  Note that there was an incident in September 2009 ([]) in which an IP editor changed the article to use the banned terms "Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia" and "FYROMian" — a change which was shortly thereafter reverted ([]).  I customized the notice to make it clear that the 1RR restriction applies only to this one issue, not to the article in general.  It is my understanding that the "Macedonia 2" ArbCom ruling in question expects this sort of tagging to be done on the talk pages of all articles which mention the Republic of Macedonia (by whatever name).  I should probably have done this last September, but better late than never.  Richwales (talk · contribs) 07:16, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  1RR notice per [[WP:ARBMAC2]] (2009 Macedonia ArbCom ruling) 

message: I removed the sentence that said "Oddly, the poppy field affected the film's characters in the same order the cast members actually died" because that isn't accurate. Dorothy fell asleep in the poppy field before the Lion, but Bert Lahr died in 1967 whereas Judy Garland died in 1969. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 16:56, 21 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Wizard of Oz 

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message: The article currently says:  "In the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand artificial poppies (plastic in Canada, paper in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand) are worn to commemorate those who died in war. This form of commemoration is associated with Veterans Day in the United States and with Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth, both of which fall on November 11."
I strenuously challenge the claim that the wearing of poppies is widespread in the US.  In my experience, the custom is virtually unknown in the US at the present time.  I also question the claim that the wearing of poppies in the US (to the extent that this practice currently exists at all) is or ever was associated with Veterans' Day (as opposed to Memorial Day).
Two sources are currently being cited in support of the claim that this is a customary practice in the US.  The first is an article in The World Book Dictionary, which gives one definition of "poppy" as "an artificial flower resembling a poppy sold in an annual drive by the American Legion and several other veterans' groups as a means of raising funds for their charitable activities."  This source does not say how widely such poppies are sold or worn, so it doesn't seem to me to be appropriate to use this source in a context where the implication is being made that the custom is widespread in the US (especially not in juxtaposition with the state of affairs in Commonwealth countries, where poppies are truly ubiquitous around Remembrance Day).
The second source is an 2004 excerpt from the Congressional Record, in which various members of Congress encourage the practice of wearing poppies on Memorial Day.  It is mentioned (page 10121) that "there was a time in our Nation when all Americans on Memorial Day wore a red poppy" — but also that "Sadly, the true meaning of Memorial Day seems to have faded over the years".  While this source does suggest that some people have supported a revival of the poppy tradition in the US, that is not the same as claiming that this is in fact a widespread tradition.
Additionally, the portion of the article which I quoted above claims that the wearing of poppies is "associated with Veterans Day in the United States" — whereas the Congressional Record source talks about Memorial Day, and the World Book Dictionary source doesn't talk about a specific timing of the "annual drive".
All in all, I do not believe the cited sources adequately substantiate the claim that this custom, in the US, is on a par with similar traditions in Commonwealth countries.  And I do believe the great majority of American editors here would confirm that, now and in the reasonably recalled past, there is not and has not been any such tradition active in the US — and to insist on claiming the contrary based on ambiguous sources like this is (in my view) interpreting the maxim of "verifiability, not truth" in a way that no one would or should really want to do.
For what little it may be worth here:  I wear a Canadian poppy every year in the couple of weeks leading up to Remembrance Day; and in the more than a dozen years during which I've kept up this tradition since moving back to the US, my experience has been that almost no one has the slightest clue regarding the significance of my "pretty red flower".  Generally, the only people who have indicated to me that they recognized the symbol have been other Canadians, people who have spent time living in Commonwealth countries, or elderly people who remember the poppy tradition in the US from long, long ago.  — Richwales (talk) 06:56, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wearing of poppies in the US?? 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:That Poppy which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 01:01, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: Hi, and a note to page watchers. The hatnote link to Poppy (singer) has been removed several times and I've put it back, so wondering if other editors could watch for this also. The singer's page usually has many more views than this article, which makes it per guidelines "worthy" of a hatnote (if not co-primary). Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:49, 27 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Hatnote