August 20, 2008

No More Rain-Soaked Cigarettes! (Aug, 1931)

Filed under: Just Weird — @ 8:52 pm
Source: Modern Mechanix ( More articles from this issue )
Issue: Aug, 1931
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Tags: smoking

No More Rain-Soaked Cigarettes!
MANY are the inventions devised to insure a dry smoke, but it has remained for a clown appearing with a circus in England to solve the problem. An umbrella over the smoke keeps off water and a spigot drains off excess moisture.

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12 Comments »

1. So, you use an umbrella for your cigarette and none for yourself?… why I didn’t think about that first?

   Comment by JM — August 21, 2008 @ 7:38 am

2. Okay that clown is extra-creepy even as far as clowns go.

   Comment by fluffy — August 21, 2008 @ 8:20 am

3. The rain must have washed all of that clown’s makeup off… as well as his lips, eyelids, nose, and skin.

   Comment by Gregly — August 21, 2008 @ 9:49 am

4. Whoa.

   Comment by Renan — August 21, 2008 @ 3:26 pm

5. It reminds me of the mummy of Seti the 1st ..

   Comment by Alexis Carlotti — August 21, 2008 @ 4:27 pm

6. Ain’t lovely those handpainted cheek? No, it’s creepy that’s it!

   Comment by james — August 22, 2008 @ 7:53 am

7. “excess moisture”… you mean spit?

   Comment by Mike — August 23, 2008 @ 10:40 am

8. Creepy clown reminds me of the voodoo witch doctor in one of the James Bond movies.

   Comment by stonefisk — August 23, 2008 @ 3:29 pm

9. Maybe the idea behind this was to make smoking look so ridiculous, you would stop just so people would stop laughing at you.

   Comment by John M. Hanna — August 23, 2008 @ 6:37 pm

10. I’m pretty sure he’s supposed to be a ‘hobo clown’, hence the beard and otherwise lack of makeup. Other than that? I can’t explain this at all!

    Comment by Anne — August 23, 2008 @ 10:55 pm

11. FYI European clowns DO NOT wear the same make up as American clowns. This clown’s make up is appropriate for where he is from. Clowns that smoke do not smoke while entertaining.

    This picture is funny and crazy to me. I wonder how many people actually bought this product.

    Comment by ma — August 25, 2008 @ 3:36 am

12. And this I read know when I stoped smoking
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    Comment by aleksman71 — August 26, 2008 @ 11:51 am

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