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Post by acebackwords on Dec 17, 2012 11:52:40 GMT -5
This is Johnandyoko on Dick Cavett, 1971. Whats weird is watching them smoke. Not that there was anything particularly weird about that -- I remember watching the Tonight Show back in the 60s and Johnny and his guests would be smoking up a storm. But that both John and Yoko light up their cigarettes with MATCHES! Couldn't they afford a lighter? Just about everybody I know that smokes -- especially pot smokers -- has a lighter. It made me wonder if it was different back then. If maybe lighters didn't come into vogue until later. I didn't start smoking until the 90s so maybe it was different back then.
Yeah, I know. I think about the oddest things.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Dec 17, 2012 12:05:54 GMT -5
This is Johnandyoko on Dick Cavett, 1971. Whats weird is watching them smoke. Not that there was anything particularly weird about that -- I remember watching the Tonight Show back in the 60s and Johnny and his guests would be smoking up a storm. But that both John and Yoko light up their cigarettes with MATCHES! Couldn't they afford a lighter? Just about everybody I know that smokes -- especially pot smokers -- has a lighter. It made me wonder if it was different back then. If maybe lighters didn't come into vogue until later. I didn't start smoking until the 90s so maybe it was different back then. Yeah, I know. I think about the oddest things. It was different back then. Lighters weren't as common as matches.
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Post by scousette on Dec 17, 2012 13:12:48 GMT -5
You could get matches just about anywhere--the gas station, restaurants, stores--they were used for promotion and advertising as much as customer convenience.
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Post by debjorgo on Dec 17, 2012 18:09:06 GMT -5
I'm not sure when Bics and butane came out, but in the early seventies, you had to put lighter fluid and flint in the old style lighters. They were a lot of trouble. Some people though, thought they were their most prized possession.
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Post by winstonoboogie on Dec 17, 2012 23:32:57 GMT -5
I remember the commercials in the mid-70's - "All I gotta do is flick my Bic!" ;D
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Apr 5, 2013 12:57:55 GMT -5
I remember the first Bic commercials around 1972 or 1973. Here is an ad from their most famous ad campaign, "flick my bic", that ran for several years. This is from 1974. So disposable lighters really were not around much in 1971. You only had the heavy cumbersome large metal lighters.
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Post by scousette on Apr 6, 2013 22:48:41 GMT -5
I also remember back in the olden days that if you bought a pack of cigs, the store would give you a book of matches.
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Post by John S. Damm on Apr 6, 2013 23:40:58 GMT -5
I didn't watch the video here but wasn't it Dick who lit Yoko's ciggie and she had to make a big f-ing deal about it before accepting his offer like, "You're a male chauvinist pig to offer but I'll let you do it this time because it is already lit" or some bullshit like that?
There was a time and sometimes still is when a woman gets offended if a man opens the door for her. I do it for all people, men and women alike just out of courtesy, not some sense of chivalry. I remember watching Yoko make a big deal about that lit cigarrete and thought what a dumbass!
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Post by scousette on Apr 7, 2013 0:28:15 GMT -5
I don't get offended if a man opens a door for me but I am offended by the limp hand shake.
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Post by vectisfabber on Apr 7, 2013 7:04:08 GMT -5
Where did the limp handshake come from? Is it from the same place which leads people to put an "h" in front of the spoken letter "H"?
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Post by scousette on Apr 7, 2013 10:30:47 GMT -5
Not sure of the connection between hand shakes and phonics. The limp hand shake is the one where the man only extends the ends of the fingers, instead of the hand, and sort of claws on to the woman's hand with a very weak up and down motion. I think some men may think it's chivalrous but it's rather obnoxious. Why not just shake hands? You can get the door for me later.
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Post by Joe Karlosi on Apr 7, 2013 11:54:11 GMT -5
Not sure of the connection between hand shakes and phonics. The limp hand shake is the one where the man only extends the ends of the fingers, instead of the hand, and sort of claws on to the woman's hand with a very weak up and down motion. I think some men may think it's chivalrous but it's rather obnoxious. Why not just shake hands? You can get the door for me later. I always love shaking a woman's warm, soft, beautiful hand. I love a cheap thrill!
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Post by John S. Damm on Apr 7, 2013 13:33:46 GMT -5
I don't get offended if a man opens a door for me but I am offended by the limp hand shake. A limp hand shake is really bad with all sexes, ew! But I know what you mean, scousette, sometimes men think they will "break that little lady's pretty hand." Just last night a guy held the door open for me at the liquor store. Why thank you said I as I gave him a firm handshake and we began to talk about Michael Jackson. I quickly snapped to and realized he wasn't Tony Hicks, lead guitarist of The Hollies, and we weren't on this Message Board on the "Who was #2" Thread so I muttered "Cheeky" and quickly left.
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Post by scousette on Apr 7, 2013 15:12:52 GMT -5
You run into the strangest people, John. Upgrade your liquor store. I'll hold the door open for you.
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