[Warning: This has nothing to do with mst or capping, although I suppose you could caption the pictures if you'd like]
No, it’s not a shameless attempt to get kids smoking, but it is almost as oddly conceived, it’s the James A. Garfield disposable lighter. I picked it up at one of my neighborhood’s many discount stores, even though I don’t smoke – it was just too odd to pass up. It’s slightly less odd when you consider that it was one in a series of presidential lighters, along with requisite non-president Ben Franklin.
These were all the lighters I saw from the series (there were more generic designs in the display). I’m can’t quite figure how Garfield made it to #5 in their release schedule (or 6, if you assume John Adams was just short packed). Do the manufactures figure that smokers would like a reminder that maybe a disgruntled lawyer might get them before the cigarettes do?
November 23rd, 2007 at 10:46 am
I think it’d be much odder if it wasn’t part of a series…
November 24th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Why weren’t these things being sold in Washington DC fer Pete’s ache?
[Mike Nelson voice:] “Which one of these didn’t grow tobacco on his plantation nor smoke it?”
The secret of the Lincoln Lighter is that it’s really a disguised one-shot derringer. And the Garfield Lighter is a disguised .44 Webley British Bulldog revolver with a wooden handle. QED.
George, Tom, Frank, Abe, and Jim. A new group. Coming soon to YouTube.
November 25th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Abe Lincoln is on a 5 dollar bill AND a cigarette lighter?! Lucky bum!