![Magazine ad for Player’s Navy Cut tobacco from a 1902 issue of Country Life magazine (the UK one, not the USA one).](https://i0.wp.com/www.adtothebone.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/playersnavycut1000m.jpg?resize=625%2C943)
Bone shards:
Player’s Navy Cut was discontinued in 2016. Not a bad run.
One of its slogans in the 1920s was “Player’s Please”. It’s a long shot, but I think it’s possible this was an early version of the more recent “Playa please.”
And yes, “Me likee” is a racist stereotype. Don’t do that.
Detail: Notice the “Hero” on the sailor’s hat.
And just because, here’s a possible origin for “Put that in your pipe and smoke it.”
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