# "LIFE Goes to a GOP Women's Smoker" - Great pics!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 7, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-goes-to-a-gop-womens-smoker-great-pics/608707 "2012-01-07T04:58:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-goes-to-a-gop-womens-smoker-great-pics/608707/1 "2012-01-07T04:58:44Z")

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This is what your great grandmother and her buddies were up to in the 40’s after they finished hissing FDR at the Trans-Lux.

[GOP Women’s Smoker](http://www.life.com/gallery/50521/image/ugc1133131/life-goes-to-a-gop-womens-smoker#index/0) - Terrific pics!

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**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-goes-to-a-gop-womens-smoker-great-pics/608707/2 "2012-01-07T17:51:15Z")

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What is especially great about the photos is how it goes against almost everything the GOP represents today - could you imagine if those photos were shot last week and tweeted today? Chain smoking closet Lesbian Republicans whooping it up?! It would cause an uproar.

Goes ta show ya how puritanical and uptight we have become.

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-goes-to-a-gop-womens-smoker-great-pics/608707/3 "2012-01-09T01:39:12Z")

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Looks like a fun night. A very fun night.

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**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-goes-to-a-gop-womens-smoker-great-pics/608707/4 "2012-01-09T01:43:57Z")

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> [@astro](#):
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> This is what your great grandmother and her buddies were up to in the 40’s after they finished hissing FDR at the Trans-Lux.
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> [GOP Women’s Smoker](http://www.life.com/gallery/50521/image/ugc1133131/life-goes-to-a-gop-womens-smoker#index/0) - Terrific pics!

Well, one of my ggms was dead in 1941, another was a yellow-dog Democrat, and the other two were red-dog Republican but were 1,200 miles from the nearest Trans-Lux. And I doubt any of their lips ever touched tobacco. But thanks for a very revealing photoessay. _Autres temps, autres moeurs._