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[John in Santa Cruz]

Pall Mall - Wherever particular people congregate

[HABBERDABBER]

Come on, folks! LSMFT? Doesn't the acroynom roll off your tongue?

Lucky Strikes mean Fine Tobacco.

CALL FOR...FOR Philip Morris!

I'll cease my commercial jingoisms here, now, and for all time.

[peter]

LSMFT.......Loose Straps Mean Floppy T_ _ _. Grade 7, 1957

[MrLynn]

Originally Posted by John in Santa Cruz

Pall Mall - Wherever particular people congregate

I never remembered that slogan; not as catchy as the others. I ended up smoking them, though, unfiltered. Had to correct people a lot, as the official pronunciation, I had heard, was 'Pell Mell'.

[John in Santa Cruz]

Originally Posted by MrLynn

I never remembered that slogan; not as catchy as the others. I ended up smoking them, though, unfiltered. Had to correct people a lot, as the official pronunciation, I had heard, was 'Pell Mell'.

it was printed on the packs I remember in the 70s.

I used to prefer non-filter cigarettes because I found I smoked far fewer of them.

[emers382]

Originally Posted by HABBERDABBER

I'd never heard of that one. I was thinking it was the smooth, aromatic cigarette. Smoke 'em if you got 'em.
Or take a snooze in your Chesterfield brand sofa.

Chesterfield is the British term for a sofa/davenport/couch. I was born "over ome" and we emigrated to Canada when I was three. My parents always called our sofas chesterfields.

From Miriam-Webster...Synonyms for Chesterfield -
couch, davenport, divan, lounge, settee, sofa, squab

[Ron in BC]

Originally Posted by John in Santa Cruz

I used to prefer non-filter cigarettes because I found I smoked far fewer of them.

I started smoking Kools because I hated menthol and thought that I'd smoke less. Amazing how fast you can adapt to something.

Weird now to think that I was once a smoker.

Ron

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by Ron in BC

I started smoking Kools because I hated menthol and thought that I'd smoke less. Amazing how fast you can adapt to something.

Weird now to think that I was once a smoker.

Ron

Hi: Ron in BC... I quit when they got to $0.65 a pack. Couldn't afford 'em. Don't know where all the money I saved went. Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

[Iowa Dave]

Originally Posted by emers382

Chesterfield is the British term for a sofa/davenport/couch. I was born "over ome" and we emigrated to Canada when I was three. My parents always called our sofas chesterfields.

From Miriam-Webster...Synonyms for Chesterfield -
couch, davenport, divan, lounge, settee, sofa, squab

And the studio couch. Not to mention the venerable love seat. Which always seemed like a contradiction or contortion of terms to me.
Iowa Dave

[MrLynn]

Originally Posted by escape artist

Hi: Ron in BC... I quit when they got to $0.65 a pack. Couldn't afford 'em. Don't know where all the money I saved went. Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

I quit when they went to a buck. Smoked OPs and a pipe for a while. Still miss the pipe.

[escape artist]

Originally Posted by Iowa Dave

And the studio couch. Not to mention the venerable love seat. Which always seemed like a contradiction or contortion of terms to me.
Iowa Dave

Hi: Iowa Dave... I wouldn't want to "Couch" anyone in terms of being a "Couch potato". Alf
escape artist N.S. of Lake Erie

[Craiger]

When I left the Army January 1972 I was used to paying $0.15 a pack in Korea. Not thinking I only had about four packs with me. I went to pick up a pack in the Seattle airport for the flight home. It was a dollar and five cents. I think it was a month later I stopped smoking. The reason I can by an escape trailer for cash is I don't smoke!

[Jake930]

Originally Posted by MrLynn

. Still miss the pipe.

I quit smoking cigarettes when I was 20. Only smoked to be cool in school. Smoked a pipe after that for awhile. And a cigar once in awhile. Quit both by 30.
Still miss my pipe though.
I always told my wife that if I make to 80 that I was going to get another pipe so I could smoke it on the back porch at night..
Than agin, I picked up a 15 dollar cigar to take to deer camp about 20 yrs ago. Lit up took a few drags and chucked it! Tasted like something I picked up off the back lawn.

[emers382]

Jake930 I had a similar pattern quit cigarettes at 21, then smoked a pipe, eventually only did it in the winter, too much paraphernalia too carry around then one winter later in my 20's just didn't bother starting again. Beth never smoked even though her mother did for 70 years plus.

[Mike G]

Originally Posted by Jake930

...Than agin, I picked up a 15 dollar cigar to take to deer camp about 20 yrs ago. Lit up took a few drags and chucked it! Tasted like something I picked up off the back lawn.

And no doubt it looked like something off the back lawn, too, if dogs have been around.
I have never been a smoker, but occasionally I fume.

[MrLynn]

Well, to get off cigarettes, and back on topic, we didn't win the lottery for the 21C or the 21NE today. Congrats to the winners! There were something like 34 and 27 contestants for those two. And they weren't even giving these trailers away!

What they were offering was brand-new trailers at last year's prices, and no wait. Oh well, we won't have to figure out how to get to the far Northwest by the end of March.

Must say that Escape Sales could have made the drawing a little more dramatic. Maybe add a fishbowl full of entries, and a cute little girl to draw the winner? All we had was Samuel staring at his laptop. But he did call the winners, which was fun.

Maybe it's time to take up smoking again. . .

[Suregrip391]

I’d like to see the “random draw” also and how it’s done. Not just him looking at his screen. How do they do it?

[MrLynn]

Originally Posted by Suregrip391

I’d like to see the “random draw” also and how it’s done. Not just him looking at his screen. How do they do it?

I was curious about that, too. Easy enough to randomize a list in Excel, so I'd guess that's how he did it.

[Sean2a]

Originally Posted by Suregrip391

I’d like to see the “random draw” also and how it’s done. Not just him looking at his screen. How do they do it?

Likely just assigns each customer a number 1-27 or whatever and then uses something simple like Google’s random number generator

[NCBill]

Bought my wife a brand new Kia Telluride. Ordered it from out of area dealer to get MSRP pricing. Local dealer is selling three year old Tellurides for $20,000 over original MSRP and people are buying them.

Impatient buyers are paying very high prices for cars and RVs right now…