# Zippo lives up to its propaganda!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippo-lives-up-to-its-propaganda/111470>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 30, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippo-lives-up-to-its-propaganda/111470 "2002-05-30T00:26:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippo-lives-up-to-its-propaganda/111470/61 "2002-06-09T01:44:23Z")

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Well, heck, as long as this thread is lingering back on the board I might as well mention that I got my nifty titanium lighter and a leather belt pouch to stuff it in. Loads of pyromaniacal fun. Now all have to do is take up smoking.

On to the next toy. Perhaps sea-monkeys or X-Ray spex.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2002, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zippo-lives-up-to-its-propaganda/111470/62 "2002-06-09T03:07:43Z")

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I dug one of dad’s old Zippos out of a drawer. I’m not sure when he got, as when I was a kid he was on the USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) as the Communications Officer. This lighter has a left-front three-quarter engraving of USS Belle Grove (LSD-2) on the front and the ship’s logo – a green alligator superimposed over a red 2, in a red circle with green “USS BELLE GROVE – THE TWO CAN DO” – on the back. Using the Zippo site I linked to earlier, I see that the date code is for 1959. So I assume he was on LSD-2 before I was born.

The bottom of the brushed steel case is slightly battered, making it a little difficult to make out the three dots on the right side, and there are a couple of minor dings and scratches. But I don’t care. It’s dad’s Zippo.

I also found my old black Zippo, but I can’t make out the date code because of the black paint. Now I just need to find my old brushed-steel Zippo.

BTW: _Did_ anyone send the URL to this thread to Zippo? Maybe they’d respond to the praise by making a Straight Dope Zippo! 😃

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