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Grand Bahama Island. May be 50% gone due to Dorian Sept2019.

Sep 3, 2019 1:26PM PDT

Post was last edited on September 3, 2019 2:22 PM PDT

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I should hope not.
Sep 7, 2019 8:26AM PDT

Is Pdq Lsmft clearer? Happy

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Are those acronyms?
Sep 7, 2019 9:00AM PDT

Penny dime quarter?
Let's see my fine tutorial?

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Lsmft
Sep 7, 2019 9:08AM PDT

Lucky Strike, Means Fine Tobacco.



dpruner's favorite smoke?

Post was last edited on September 7, 2019 9:09 AM PDT

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Death sticks? No offense intended or implied.
Sep 7, 2019 9:35AM PDT
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Tarreyton?!
Sep 7, 2019 9:49AM PDT

Those are fighting words, lol.

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Look up Tarrlyton and Idiocracy.
Sep 7, 2019 11:13AM PDT

It's R rated for language. The parody is strong as the flavor.

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Parody from the 50s.
Sep 7, 2019 12:00PM PDT

"I got these chest x-rays free, with Raleigh coupons!"
Mad magazine, in fact.

Post was last edited on September 7, 2019 4:04 PM PDT

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Odd how our [human] racial memory works.
Sep 7, 2019 12:51PM PDT

In 70 years I've never heard "death sticks", which is good.
I've always heard "cancer sticks".
Later I heard "coffin nails".
Both also good.
Our own is longer. "Cigarettes will kill you. If not now, then at Armageddon."

I'm surprised our own Conscience of the Witnesses hasn't 'revealed' a time when some Witnesses used tobacco. When word came down from the top*, many in the Carolinas and such had to give up their livelihoods- or Jehovah. Before my time, but our DVD of publications goes back to 1950 for the Watchtower, so I know about it.

About twenty years before the outright ban, the Watchtower of 2/15/1950 printed a three-page article "Why Christians Shun Tobacco". Strong words, but no directive yet to expel smokers from Jehovah's organization.
Anecdote: When the Nazis began taking over our facilities in Germany, a Witness came to one office with important information and found an imposter group there. How did he know? Smoke. He made some excuse, and went underground.

* And remember where "top" is.

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We don't use tobacco.
Sep 7, 2019 11:59AM PDT

Moreover, we don't encourage others to use it, via 'recipes' for vapes.
We vote life.
No tobacco.
No drugs.
No armies.
Oops. Forgot Bible.
1Pet 4:4,12-19

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(NT) You'd better learn Pretty Darn Quick.
Sep 7, 2019 12:53PM PDT
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using cellphone for internet
Sep 7, 2019 7:58AM PDT

Is like going to church with half a bible, cut in middle, sideways, and expecting & hoping to get the full understanding and experience of it.

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(NT) ???
Sep 7, 2019 12:06PM PDT
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https://imgur.com/gallery/PdqLsmft
Sep 7, 2019 8:26AM PDT

dpruner did the same in his link as JW group does, adding something else that's not supposed to be true. Notice the extra period in the link line? That's what happens when one adds things that don't belong. Wink

However, following tradition, what had been put/said there previously, has now disappeared.

https://imgur.com/gallery/PdqLsmft

Shades of 1975!!!!

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(NT) ???
Sep 7, 2019 12:58PM PDT
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That's why those prehistory ancients...
Sep 7, 2019 7:43AM PDT

....all the world used to draw those spirals, to say a hurricane or tornado happened "here" on such a date, etc.

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Looking over this exchange up to now,
Sep 7, 2019 12:56PM PDT

I'm not happy with my part in it. My off-topic insertions were meant as humor, and usually taken that way.
But, there's little humor to be found just now in "Paradise". Sorry.

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I'm trying to avoid humor.
Sep 7, 2019 4:19PM PDT

The trouble in paradise (Bahamas) is not life threatening but life taking. But I get what you did there.