Mrs. B asked me what was in the package. I didn't expect it to arrive so soon so I said I didn't know. I opened the parcel and looked at the contents and started laughing. Of course! My new Zippo!
Mrs. B said, "Show it to me." I showed Mrs. B. my new Zippo.
Mrs. B. said to me, "Since when are you a playboy?"
Me: "Since you've known me."
Mrs. B.: "I don't mean like that. I mean since when do you read Playboy Magazine."
Me: "Never, but this lighter only cost an extra three dollars compared to the plain."
In the picture on Amazon, I could see the models tan lines. They are invisible on the actual lighter. I'll have to get my monocle to see if they even exist in the grainy printing process on the metal. All in all, this Zippo was worth the extra $3.00. Who could resist a smile flicking this lighter open and giving the flint a whirl? I didn't purchase this Zippo for the cheesecake on the outside, I bought it for the Zippo's reliable guts and working parts.
That photo of my new Playboy Zippo was taken today after the Zippo had been used only once for a charring light. I put the lighter on top of the front cover of a book of Hollywood glamor portraits from 1929-1945. B&W. Then, I snapped the photo.
The lady not on the Zippo is Louise Brooks, who's best-remembered movie is Pandora's Box. Ms. Brooks, and the movie, were immortalized in pop culture by the band Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark. I have always loved this song and this video:
I have always loved a Zippo lighter, even though I do tend to lose them.
Does anyone else have a Zippo to show and a story to share about it? I looked through the "Accessory" forum and I didn''t anything dedicated to a perpetual, evergreen, Zippo them, a "Show Me" theme, if you will. Maybe someone from Missouri could add something....
the “street chrome” finish zippo is just a standard zippo insert that I bought at Walmart while I was away at work without a lighter. The stone finish zippo was a Christmas gift from the wife several years back when I lost my original zippo somewhere in Connecticut or Massachusetts while I was at work. I glued a NH state quarter to it a few years ago and swapped out the original insert for a pipe insert and it’s the lighter that’s on the table beside my chair In the man cave so I don’t lose it. Zippos are pretty awesome lighters I’ve always liked them, they just never go out of style.
