ADVENTURES IN CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION

[spatch]

Looky looky, fashion queens!

Colored pencils... you can SMOKE!

Ain't modern science amazing?

wait, by amazing I mean scary

Comments

[glowkitty]

oh my god.

i found a pack of those at the same time that i found my biological mom's porn stash when i was like 13.

why did you have to go and remind me? oh, the horrors!

[stopword.livejournal.com]

Now I'm having a nic fit. I used to bum those exact cigarettes at the homosexual social establishments and dance revues I frequented in the early nineties.

They aren't bad, but I prefer the brown mint-flavored (not menthol) kinds.

I can't believe I still have opinions about smokes.

*confuzzled*

[rigel.livejournal.com]

Hmn.

So . . . wait. What's the point of the color? Do you draw with them or something?

Re:

[spatch]

See, all my years of product ingraining would lead me to believe that each color represents a different flavor, and I know I'd be sorely disappointed if I ever tried any of those. "This tastes like... tobacco!"

Perusing the site a bit further, I see Nat Sherman has a real hard-on for the mint variety.

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

MMmmmm Nat Shermans. They dip the filters in honey, and they are smooooth and good.

Re: *confuzzled*

[spatch]

The point is ... to be fashionable?

There really isn't any other reason for the color, and that's what gets me. It's all for show!

Maybe it's meant to get people to ask "HAY IS THAT BANANA FLAVORED" or something but I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen in fancy, swanky, high-society galas.

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[stopword.livejournal.com]

That's because they ARE NOT MENTHOL!

Yeah, the colors don't have different flavors. Unless you suffer from synesthesia or something.

Re: *confuzzled*

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

OK, come on, think think think. Imagine: you're wearing a fabulous outfit with mauve ankle boots and a mauve leather jacket with shoulder pads to kill for (or with) and a sweet little peach sequined tank top - are you gonna smoke a fricking WHITE with TAN FILTER damn cigarette? NO YOU ARE NOT MY MAN... you are going to pull out that little mauvey number, or - if you're that type - you might even pluck out the dishy coral one, just to be kicky.

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

I have only ever seen those things smoked by drag queens and my beloved mad Valium-addled bibliophile Aunt Carol.