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I don't talk like that anymore; it's too seductive. Whenever I do, my wife ends up pregnant. I'm pretty sure they're all mine.

 

I kinda knew what you meant. I just don't get to use phrases like "Au contraire, mon ami" often. I took advantage of the opening.

 

Ever had a Zippo leak fluid while in your pocket? Even without igniting, it will leave a nice chemical burn on your thigh.

Then, after I took it out of my pocket for a few days, my nephew stole my Zippo! That was 40 years ago and I've not had another one since. Time to go Zippo shopping! (I think one of Gibbs Rules is Always carry Fire, so there, I have a rationalization.)

 

It seems to me, the average age of the usual suspects on this site, is roughly 50, and thus should be familiar with the iconic Zippo.

The average maturity, thats a different story...

To demonstrate the collective majority of everyone who knows what a Zippo is, we ought to start a thread on the five most unique items you've used your Zippo on, legal or illegal...:mad5:

 

But why.......

Were you trying to smoke a sandbag....

Man.... They musta had strong weed over there....

 

So how long did it take you to smoke that 7 footer?

Something like that, you should have taken it home and decorated it like a christmas tree.

 

Yup, back pocket while driving!! Pulled into a fast food establishment, ran to the bathroom, pants down, splashin' water on my butt. Never went back to that Taco Bell again!! From then on Zippo always pointed "up" when in my pocket.


This one I held onto after my Navy days, 25 yrs ago!!

 

As a Viet Nam vet I used my old Zippo ah ah lot (but still did my job)!

 

I still have a roach clip I made out of a very large cotter pin and a M16 round

(used), you know the damn thing still works!:cornut:

 

Wow - a couple new definitions for "having a party in your pants!" :eek6:

 

Anybody who stood any number of four hour deck watches could work a Zippo pretty much like many of those tricks. Gotta do sumptin to pass the time. How 'bout smoke a Camel about half way down and curl your lip and tongue back and close your mouth over it for a spell.

 

Maybe not Jim, there is a Zippo App for the iPhone

 

My one regret from quitting smoking is that I no longer carry a zippo.

 

I'm not talking average for the whole site, I'm talking averages for the people on the site that post in irreverent threads such as these.

I suspect people who post requesting info about the car are much younger (they don't know everything in the universe yet, like the rest of us do), pulling the overall average of the site down, while at the same time somewhat paradoxically bringing the maturity level of the site up.

 

Jim, why would you clip roaches. I usually just smash the hell out of them.

 

A few years ago I was ebay-ing a bunch of items for a RJ Reynolds employee who had 20 boxes of misc Camel, Smoking Joe, shirts, pool sticks, signs, and of course Zippos. Some of those give away Zippos sold for hundreds of dollars.

 

Had one or two zippos back in the 60s, they came in handy for this and that.

Nowadays here in Colorado, thinking if 12 7 footers would be a good deal.

I gave up smoking cigs in 1966, I do like a good pipe or cigar to this day.

Don