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Call Tom Ridge! Smoke shops are going to have to look out for suspicious people buying Zippos!
blur: I wonder how that Zippo got there, f’yaknowwuddImean.
malaka: Cool link!
Remember all the cool moves with the Zippo? Brushing it across your thigh – once to open it, again to light it and back again to close the lid. Standing around snapping it open and closed. When civilized people still smoked, the rush to light a pretty woman’s cigarette. The red, raw splotch on your hip where the lighter fluid leaked through your pocket. Those were the days, my friend. Damn these plastic butane things. how can you light a can of Sterno or a camp fire or a bamboo and palm leaf hut with these silly little things?
I learned how to put my thumb on the bottom, two fingers on top and ‘pop’ it open.
But I never could manage the move my dad mastered which was to snap his fingers and light it. That’s just HARD!
Zappo, would you light on the first try?
Dude, that is BOSS! Now I have to get a Zippo. (Whatever will I do with it? I don’t need it for lighting things, because I have a gas stove for that.)
I have a 20 year old zippo I bought new in 1982. It’s still going strong today and has never been repaired.
(he says lighting a cigarette and enjoying the “click-cllluck” the zippo makes when it closes)
I have a 20 year old zippo I bought new in 1982. It’s still going strong today and has never been repaired.
(he says lighting a cigarette and enjoying the “click-cllluck” the zippo makes when it closes)
Yeah, I do the brush-against-the-thigh thing. I love bringing my hand up with the lighter aflame, like I’m Lady Liberty!
I’ve actually been to the Zippo factory… my sister lives about 100 yards down the road from it, in fact! If you are in the area, it’s worth a stop; they have a little museum and everything…
Astrogirl still doesn’t understand why I made her come with me to see the Zippo factory. 
I love Zippos!
Depends on who’s striking the flint. 
I gave a Zippo as a birthday gift to a college friend. He insisted on doing the brush-against-the-thigh thing.
Ripped the lid right off on Day Two.
When my friend Jason left to go to college in 1991, I gave him a Zippo with his initials engraved on it. We went our seperate ways, and lost touch with each other for a while.
I saw him about a year ago, and he told me he still had my lighter. I thought this was pretty funny, considering one of our ‘friends’ saw the lighter in his car and stole it about a week after I gave it to him. When she moved from D.C. back to Charleston, I found the lighter in a box in her room, and took it back. I never told him that she stole it, and I wonder who gave him the lighter he uses.
I gave my SO an engraved Zippo for Valentine’s Day one year. He promptly lost it in a cab in NYC, so I don’t buy Zippo for other people anymore.
So has anyone told the Zippo people about this thread?
Gee, this is what I do for a living. And my stock answer for people who (especially when selecting grromsman gifts) say, “we can’t get lighters, some of them don’t smoke” is that even I own a Zippo for lighting birthday candles. I got so tired of rolling up a piece of paper and lighting it on the gas stove.
And Zippo lighter fluid is the best adhesive remover…much better than Goo-Gone.
I have two Zippos.
One was my grandfather’s. He carried from the day he left for WWII until he died.
I also have an official WWE Hardy Boyz Zippo. Yes, I’m a geek.
Hell, I just bought one specifically so I could learn to do the tricks with it. Don’t smoke, don’t burn things particularly often…
Rilchiam: After waiting a few days to see if you’d bid on the “Hate” Zippo on eBay, I bid on it myself. I won the bidding! If you want it, I’ll sell it to you for $18 (what I paid for it – if you really really want it, I’ll sell it to you for $20. 
). If not, then I’ll keep it myself. It’s pretty groovy.
Johnny: Thanks for thinking of me! But no, you keep it. I knew from the start that I would not be replacing ol’ Buddy. I demanded the $25 because I knew it would come out of the kid’s hide; I didn’t want the problem of a kid who randomly wrecks other peoples’ stuff to go unaddressed. But at the time, I needed the $25 more for bills than for a replacement of a lighter that still worked.
I’m not much better able to afford this expenditure now. I’m actually more happy that someone else is giving Peter Bagge some publicity than I would be if I had the shiny new lighter myself. Bring it to the next Dopefest and we’ll display them for everyone!
Okie dokie! I’ll try to remember to bring it. Since it’s still unused (in the box with the sticker on the back and instructions) I won’t be using it though.
You know, I was doing quite well on my quitting smoking until I opened this thread! :eek:
Oops…sorry…