lubow <lubow@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> This is not related to anything in the MIS charter, but what the heck...
Is this a prelude to branching out from your incessant knock-off shoe
posts?
> Remember the days when TV shows had tobacco sponsors?
Nobody's that old who isn't too senile to remember...
> At a recent family
> gathering, my cousins and I were discussing the bad old nicotine days
(we
> all lost parents through smoking related illnesses) and we came up with
this
> trivia quiz.
God, I hope you've smoked a lot...
> (1) Who was the tobacco auctioneer who ended the commercial with the
words,
> "Sold American!?"
Comics-Bay
> (2) Which cigarette featured the Micronite filter?
Gas Mask Lites
> (3) Which American Tobacco Co. (now called Fortune Brands FO) brand gave
> away 500 boxes of cigarettes to various Veterans Hospitals following the
> John Cameron Swayze news broadcast on NBC? The news broadcast was named
> after the cigarette.
Huntley-Brinkley 100s
> (4) Which cigarette had "Just the right touch of menthol?"
Altoids Slims
> (5) Which RJ Reynolds brand equated "Springtime" with smoking its
> cigarettes?
Mayday Flatlines
> (6) Which cigarette featured the "Men of America" in its commercials?
(Mad
> Magazine did an hilarious satire of these commercials!)
Village People Unfiltereds
> (7) What does "LSMFT" mean?
Lucky Strike Means Fast Terminability
> (8) On a US Navy ****p, at least according to the cigarette commercial on
the
> show, "Navy Log," what announcement is made to permit smoking on board?
Smoke 'Em If You Still Got Lungs
> (9) Which American Tobacco brand was named after a hit TV show which it
> sponsored?
Gunsmokes
> (10) Which cigarette brand showered its smoker with great gifts via its
use
> of coupons stuck to each pack of cigarettes plus four additional coupons
in
> each carton?
S&H Green Sticks
> (11) For L&M cigarettes, what did the L and M mean?
Ligget & Morbidity
> (12) What or whom did Johnny "call for?"
Medical marijuana for his lung cancer
> (13) On the TV show Chance of a Lifetime, what brand of cigarettes was
> dancing?
Sammy Davis Jr. Blowholes
> (14) What cigarette would you light up if it is "Light up time?"
Miller High Deaths
> (15) What cigarette was "Outstanding! ... and they are mild?"
Marlboring
> (16) What was the name of the penguin who urged viewers to "Smoke
Kools?"
Happy Lungs
> (17) Which "civilized" cigarette prided itself in not having (1) a
"singing
> commercial;" (2) a "noise blaring whistle," and (3) "shouting from the
> house tops?"
Un-Kools
> (18) What's the chant my cigarette girl chants?
Cigars, cigarettes, tip me you cheap bastards
> (19) This is about pipe tobacco: Which brand "Smokes grand, packs
right,
> tastes clean, can't bite. Stays fresh! (bomp bomp!) So fresh in a
pouch!?"
Dead Kangaroo Fetus(TM) Brand
> (20) This is about a cigar brand: I've met the girls, I've seen them.
I've
> gambled and I've sinned but who is my one friend who's been with me
through
> thick and thin?
Tony Montana Rocket-Propelled Cohillos
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William Ernest Reid
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