I'm sorry, but how is 1995 2o years ago? Let us not age ourselves too rapidly please. I'd like to hold on to that 5 years you so frivolously tossed aside.
@Sentientv2: OK, my bad...I'm an idoit... I rarely ever log in to Gizmodo, but I look at it every day. That's why I didn't see you responded to my comment on your comment.
As for your idea, from what I know of the Facebook-game possibilities, it sounds good, and unique. I would say there's a market for it, but then again, it took me two months to remember to log in when visiting Giz, so maybe I'm not the best person for technical advise.
@octothorp: I've since talked with one of my friends that lives in MI who's an author. She gave me the lowdown of his early-career blunders with making stuff up. I thought you may have been referring to that.
I'll just take your word for it as far as the awful content of his literary work and read something else. Thanks.
@hilikusopus: I accidentally came across the audio book version of "Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking," and saved it for when I got the urge to really quit.
I highly recommend it.
The best part was his instruction to keep smoking while reading the book. That, and it's completely devoid of scare tactics.
@TheGarySinise: I'll never forget visiting a friend in Michigan in November when I had a five or six cigar a day habit. She was not a smoker so all my stogies had to be smoked outside.
I'm from San Diego and that kind of cold just ain't right. To think I was out there for no good reason, 15 min. at a time, looking for "satisfaction."
@tastes_like_burning: I stopped smoking for the second and final time three years ago. I now know that even one cigarette means another five years of trying to quit again, so that's it...I'm done. I feel much better (understatement), I smell much better(drastic understatement), it's one less thing that's always on my mind, and half the payment for my new car is funded by the money I used to spend on smokes.
To second your motion, though, I remember buying and smoking "Death" cigarettes in the early 90's. The pack was all black and had a skull and crossbones on the front. They tasted like floor sweepings but I smoked them anyway because I thought it was ironic.
I have had to lighten up on my reformed smoker obnoxiousness though. Two times I've made an even-tempered remark to someone throwing a butt out of a car window, and both times I almost had to defend myself in a roadside boxing match. I knew they were just being defensive, so I kept going. What was said to me by each of the two unrelated folks was beyond the pale and another less evenly-tempered dude my size may have had to demonstrate a better receptacle for the aforementioned butt.
So now I just keep it to myself and carry on knowing that at some point in the past when I was smoking almost two packs a day, I must have done the same thing to someone else.
@octothorp: I've never head of this Mitch guy and a cursory glance at his website leaves me puzzled as to why you say such things. I really am curious, enlighten me please. BTW...I like the name #. Good one!