Cigarettes

Fuego · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:16 pm Post subject:

No luck needed....i'm going to get it...

Is there a prize or something? An exotic trip around theworld, a million bucks, what?!?!?!
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Aranthos · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject:

Prizes? Wouldn't that involve the authors spending money on the forumites? Hardly...

There might be some kind of congratulation, but otherwise I doubt it. Sorry Fuego.
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Dan · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 4:46 pm Post subject:

It's not going to be that long of a wait. Today or tomorrow I'd say. We had fifty posts yesterday. 25 of them were me mind you but still that says today or tomorrow. 1000th poster will get a panel of original art signed by Dave, unless Dave doesn't agree to that (I haven't spoken to him about it.) whereupon they would get... um... nothing.
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Fuego · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:01 pm Post subject:

Original art...... sweet!!!!! Dave say your in, please!!!!!!

Aranthos, just joshing with you.... no need to be snippy. you can keep your image size..... just realize i'm still better. HA!!!!!!!!!
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Aranthos · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

Dammit, I now know that because a prize is at stake I'm guaranteed not to get the 1000th post. It's just a rule of my life, I never win anything. Dammit...

And Fuego, I was joking too. It probably didn't come across that way but while I was being serious about the infinitely large pictures I can make, it was all in jest.
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Blake: "Tally ho, chocks away old chap"
Me: "What are you, a 1920s pilot? Cram it."

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Zeke · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 5:40 pm Post subject:

My thread has been hijacked by forumite spammers!
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Aranthos · Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 6:11 pm Post subject:

Sorry Joel/Zeke/Zombie.
Now where were we...? Oh yes, DAMN YOU MPAA!!
Happy now?

BTW -

Dave · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:07 am Post subject:

-Joel, you let the Forumners take over your thread. For shame.

-I FINALLY see the post where Dan suggests a prize.
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Zeke · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject:

*Loads the shotgun* Where are the Forumites? I need to have a word with them. Twisted Evil

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Fuego · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject:

You want a piece of me.... come and get it!!!!!

19th century french architechture and lollipops!!!!
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Zeke · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

*Bashes Fuego upside the head with a 25Lb sledge.*
*Quickly hides the body.*
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Fuego · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject:

uuuhhghguhhghhggghhhhhh...... what happened......

All i remember is thinking about l'arc de triomphe and blow pops and then..... lights out...... Confused

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Sadsiren · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject:

Pardon the necroposting, but I felt inclined to throw some cents to the topic.

I remember once going to see the Ninth Gate. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but something notable about it was that Johnny Depp pretty much is lighting up a cigarette in every scene he's in. I remember telling my sister after leaving the film, "Damn, I can't help wanting a cigarette after watching him smoke so much." I'd already tried cigarettes about a year prior to this movie and become an off-and-on smoker, but it always stood out in my mind that it brought on that craving.

My father was a smoker throughout my childhood and growing up. I had allergic reactions to the second hand smoke, so I knew it was bad for me then. Still, at 19, stressed, being offered one by my sister among friends, I figured I'd try anyway. So I think, even with people knowing it's bad, they can end up trying it because they see so many doing it anyway and get curious. Maybe seeing a movie or two with a moment or so of smoking might not do any harm, but thinking back to the Ninth Gate, maybe seeing it so much does add to the watcher's curiosity.

Is it so bad then to give a slight adjustment in rating for smoking in a film then? I agree with Dave that I wouldn't mind a movie getting PG rating if it's a G movie with someone smoking in it. I might even go so far as to say PG13, depending on the circumstances of the film and its characters.

On a side note, I had to admit, when I saw the comic with you giving the MPAA the bird, I thought it was because of their recent attacks on torrent sites, like Torrent Spy.

Zeke · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

If you really want good levity on this topic watch "Thank You For Smoking." I know there's a book on it, but I don't read. Razz

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