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by Slearwig
on Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:51 am |
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Movies? Naw.
Let's just hope they never figure out there's smoke in the sausage and the BBQ sauce, otherwise they'll have to Ban Me! |
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Slearwig
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by libertarian99
on Tue Aug 11, 2009 10:27 am |
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Slearwig wrote: My version would have Turner object to smoking. The hitman responds by putting a gun to Turner's head with an accusatory stare for several seconds, breaking into a laugh, relaxes, and then lights up. |
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by Smoker Sympathizer
on Wed Aug 12, 2009 12:23 am |
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| Language is more powerful than many realize, I think. I jokingly blame all the evils of the world on rogue English majors working for the dark side. We can make anything sound good. Seriously though: Why does it seem like things aren't classified as "pleasures" anymore, but "addictions"? We need to take our pleasures back. I think the word "addiction" is thrown around much too lightly. |
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by Cantiloper
on Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:15 pm |
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DarkSeid wrote, "Worst defiler of all-THE X-FILES )I Want To Believe). No relation at all to the TV series (thank God), this one shows the sheer butchery of kidnapping people and harvesting their organs after drugging them up with animal tranquilizers,then chopping up the bodies-great family fare, and dwelled on graphically. However, there is ONE smoker in the entire movie. A psychic ex-priest who is trying to help the FBI solve the serial killings. And guess what happens to him in the end of the movie? Any takers? That's right, he dies of lung cancer. OH! I almost forgot.....he's also a child molester."
Dark, I'd have to rank that up there with the "7th Heaven" episode I wrote about in Brains:
"One particular episode of 7th Heaven featured an evil twin smoking after his smoking father passed away from lung cancer, while one of the regular teen characters started smoking, influencing two toddlers to emulate him by pretending to smoke with crayons as another teen regular kept loudly proclaiming all smokers’ stupidity and another younger teen quit a newly acquired habit to prove that he wasn’t stupid. To top it all off, yet another smoking character was thrown into the mix to rudely blow smoke in a nonsmoker’s face at an outdoor café while the home she was house-sitting simultaneously burned down from one of her cigarettes… after which she simply lit up another smoke and stalked off with a comment about the place being insured and nonsmokers being uptight! (No, I am not making this up.)
Incredibly, TV networks even accepted having government officials review and alter scripts dealing with drugs to fit specified guidelines and received for this the equivalent of over ten million dollars a year in releases from PSA obligations that they could then sell to commercial sponsors. The idea of the government using our tax money to practice this sort of cultural indoctrination through our supposedly independent entertainment media should be deeply shocking to any American."
Funny note about Mulder: there was one episode of X-Files where he was sitting in a living room talking to someone across a teatable. At one particular point the camera switches back to him as he's making a point and if you were paying attention you'd notice both a slight trace of smoke coming out of his mouth as he's speaking AND notice that his off camera hand seems to be putting out a cigarette in an ashtray! LOL! I wish I could remember what episode that was so I could check on what I thought I saw at the time. I *think* he was talking to an older guy about baseball or something as part of an investigation.
Michael J. McFadden
Author of "Dissecting Antismokers' Brains" |
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