Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for May 10, 2020

How about a stogie for the old fogy…..

Is it true that cigars are part of God’s IQ test?

“Hey, Mister, your dog turd’s on fire!”

Fortunately, all of the places I worked were non-smoking with a vengeance. Safety reasons. Even equipment salesmen,when they visited, had to leave cigarettes/cigars with plant security when they came in. Along with being relatively informal, it was one of the delights of my profession.

Hubby’s uncle taught him how to smoke a cigar and that you never relight one.

Can’t someone, anyone stick a “large” firecracker inside that stinky stogie?

They do help to enforce the social distancing.

I used to smoke cigars. There was nothing better than a good cigar on the way home from work. I liked King Edward’s and a few good panatellas. But, alas, that was many years ago. Those and my favorite pipe were dropped for good health. I do still have a great collection of pipes, though.

“Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” Mark Twain

Dad smoked cigarettes all the time I was growing up. I would come home from college (my sister and I were both in college at the same time) and give him a little lecture about quitting. I noted that he was also taking antacids frequently and suggested he might have an ulcer. He would just mutter something I didn’t understand. Amazingly.. after my sister and I both graduated, he managed to finally quit smoking and got rid of the antacids.

Why is he lighting an already lit cigar

I used to enjoy Marsh Wheeling stogies, bought em by the box. When my grandson came along, I quit that and the pipes. I did not want to set a bad example for the next generation.

My gramp smoked cigars, chewed tobacco, often spit brown slime into a coffee can, but he did read me the funny-papers in the late ‘40s and early ’50s (RIP, and I’ll see you soon).

Your mother didn’t raise a chimney either, tobacco-breath!

Dad smoked cigars incessantly. I’ve never smoked. Related?

What, no Kipling quote? Probably not PC.

I know someone who finally quit smoking after keeping the receipts from all of his cigarette purchases over the course of a month. That’s when he realized he actually spent far more on cigarettes than he thought he did. That’s also when he realized he really could afford some of the things he thought he couldn’t afford. Smokers rarely if ever admit to how much they actually smoke and spend on cigarettes, not even to themselves.