Caltrops - Peter Molyneux's The Movies





	[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"][quote name="Vested Id"][quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"](Sung to the tune of "Winston Tastes Good") Winston tastes bad Like the one I just had No filter No flavor They taste like toilet paper! I probably first heard this 45 years ago. This was far enough back that cigarettes could legally be advertised on television and radio. [/quote] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISeGiZvPztc">Is this the commercial you're talking about?</a> Winstons in fact taste wonderful. I thought maybe you might be referring to an earlier model that didn't have a filter. But the commercial refers to how "the filter lets the flavor through", so it clearly had a filter even back then. I don't see how you can claim otherwise. Have you ever had a Winston cigarette? Until you do, I won't accept any claim they taste bad.[/quote] Uh, dude, 45 years ago was 1970 and I was 10 years old. I am a lifelong non-smoker (and teetotaler) despite the fact both my parents smoked and my sister smoked and eventually quit. In fact, when I lived in California I used to buy her cigarettes in bulk from Smart & Final Iris because I had a sales tax permit and could purchase them without paying sales tax. This was not to get out of paying sales tax, but the exact opposite. When I got the quarterly bill I'd pay the sales tax on all the cigarettes my mother had given me the money - including tax - for. This was not to get away with holding onto the money, but to ensure I always reported some sales and thus they would never cancel my sales tax permit for non-use. Maybe I'm only paying $5 or $10 every three months, that's still non-zero and ensures my account would stay open even if I didn't use it otherwise. My sales tax permit was issued for "Computer Supplies" but under the rules of the California Franchise Tax Board once you have a permit you can purchase anything from another merchant who does resale, without paying sales tax. Basically I think my mother - who lived to be over 70 by the way and died shortly before the turn of the millenium - was a long-time consumer of the four basic food groups: cigarettes. coffee, salt and cabbage soup. My mother made a mean cabbage soup, it was delicious. Really delicious. [/quote]