April 10, 2010
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Need a light?
Didn't realize that I had so many of these.
Here's where they usually set around gathering dust.
Wiped the dust off and lined up on the pool table to get a better look at em.
Seems every 2 or 3 years or so I get a new one for some reason, birthday, Christmas or whatever and the one I'm using goes on the shelf.
There's a 60th Anniversary Zippo (never used), a Y2K Zippo, Air Force, Steelers, a Marlboro Zippo, some Camel Zippos, a couple of trench lighters, and asst. plastic ones.
That old Zippo to the right of the cue ball, with the peace sign scratched into it, I bought in Thailand in 1969. I've lost it three times and it always comes back.
The lid is held on with a bent straightpin. lol
At VanSlam '76 in Richmond, Va. I opened it, and the striker wheel and spring flew out of it, not to be found on the ground anywhere. But, what I did find a few minutes later, was a new Zippo dropped on the parking lot. Picked it up and swapped the guts and put the new one back on the ground.
It still works to this day.
I think it's haunted!
Or possessed!
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Admiringly Like forever I am supposed to make a clean breast you are completely true
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@seedsower - Joe's diner. Open 24 hours.
What are the words on it?
@firefighterswife - Thank you!
@Aloysius_son - Truer words never spoken, my friend!
@murisopsis - Me thinks so too! That's why I stopped carrying it! lol
@seedsower - I forget what that one was called. I've had it for years. Art decco maybe?
@jacksoncroons - Thanks Jackson! You got a picture of that lighter?
@marigold_mom - Sounds like a yard sale in the making?
Cool collection!!!
I came to tell you what a great interview you gave to Beth for the shout out! I love your feelings about living by the river!!!
PSSSSSSSSSSST! Just lettint you knoe I read the shout out... I always knew you were/are a great guy!
two things no self respecting man should ever be with out... flint and steel... I gotta have fire and a knife or I am nothing more than a monkey wearing pants.
Hi! Came over from Seedsower's shout out. Nice collection. The lighter that is possessed - is that the frankensteined one? (that you did the entire innards transplant on) If so it probably is possessed!
What is the one to the right above the Y2K lighter? Sort of scalloped edges? I like all of emI learned how to fill lighter and clean them when I was a little girlmy dad had the same lighter for years and I was the keeper of the flame.
I like the Camel one myself... reminds me of Still Life with WoodPecker... one of my favorite books...
HI BUD!
Hope your having a great weekend. Thanks for showing us your collection... I love seeing what people collect.
I used to want to collect something to give me something to do, but never could get around to it -- the prospect of having to clean and dust my collectible whatevers has kept me away from it. Didn't stop me from accumulating a lot of s___t over the years which I wish would just go away though.
@buddly47 - LOL Still a fan, just not as passionate about the game as before (pinch my self) Yeah I did say that... O wells. Keep us updated if there are anymore phenomenal occurrences with that lighter, if it should zip off and back again..lol.
Cool collection, even if you never really intended to start a collection. I have one shaped like a Hawain Tiki . . .
@wematter - WHOA! Used to be? How'd that happen? Seriously, I did lose it three times. Gone, for months. Once, it showed up in a jacket pocket that I hadn't worn in years. Once, a girl that I had taken home back in the winter, called and asked me if I was missing a lighter (it has my initials scratched in it). She had found it when the snow melted. And once a customer asked for a light and when he left I realized he never gave my lighter back. I didn't know the guy so figured it was gone. Months later, he walked in again and asked if that lighter was mine. Go figure. I think it's possessed! lol
Nice collection. I think that Steeler lighter was eying me, it knows what big fan I used to be. I liked the zippo story, I might have some things that do the same thing, they just reappear, can't think of them now.
@tialoca_talks - I think maybe I do! lol
@ItsWhatEyeKnow - LOL. Typo! That was supposed to be "lost it three times". And the fuel is called lighter fluid.
Nice collection.
@ItsWhatEyeKnow - The fuel is called Zippo Fuel, but there is also a cheaper version of the fuel called Bronsol.
"I've lost it the times and it always comes back." -
I used to love to flip my dad's zippo with the thumb of the hand I held it with, which was a challenge because he only smoked for my early childhood years so my hands were smallish. I loved the smell of the fuel too. Was it called butane?
hey buddy, gotta light?