[nq:1]Re: "smoke if you got 'em"[/nq] Googlecount: "smoke 'em if you've got 'em" 461 "smoke if you've got 'em" 26 "smoke if you got 'em" 220 "smoke 'em if you got em" 3,670 [nq:1]What do you do if you ain't got 'em?[/nq] I'm anti-'em so I say **** out. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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[nq:2]Re: "smoke if you got 'em"[/nq] [nq:1]Googlecount: "smoke 'em if you've got 'em" 461 "smoke if you've got 'em" 26 "smoke if you got 'em" 220 "smoke 'em if you got em" 3,670 [/nq] Back in the ol' brown *** navy, it was always "Smoke 'em if ya got 'em". 1090 Google hits. \\P. Schultz
[nq:2]Re: "smoke if you got 'em" What do you do if you ain't got 'em?[/nq] [nq:1]*** 'em.[/nq] That's what I did in the Air Force during Basic Training. Our intrepid TI would only allow those who smoked to go outside for a break. So I bummed one, held it in my hand (unlit) until the break was over and then threw it away. No one ever asked for it back.
} }> Re: "smoke if you got 'em" }> }> What do you do if you ain't got 'em? } } *** 'em. But you don't raise the issue with the drill sergeant or you give him (or her) ten. But "Smoke 'em if you got 'em" is a clue to the mentality that I say brought us "I could care less". Drill sergeants aren't so stupid that they wouldn't just say "Smoke 'em" if there were no
[nq:1]} }> Re: "smoke if you got 'em" }> }> What do you do if you ain't got 'em? } ... to tailor the remarks to pre-empt objections. ObAUE: "Smoke 'em if you got 'em" almost always follows "Take (a) break".[/nq] The drill was usually, "Ground your equipment and take a break in place. Smoke 'em if you got 'em." Brian Wickham
[nq:2]Re: "smoke if you got 'em" What do you do if you ain't got 'em?[/nq] [nq:1]*** 'em.[/nq] Bumming cigarettes must be a dicey business these days, what with the price of a single cigarette approaching two bits (in California, anyway).
[nq:2]*** 'em.[/nq] [nq:1]Bumming cigarettes must be a dicey business these days, what with the price of a single cigarette approaching two bits (in California, anyway).[/nq] Probably. I haven't tried to *** one since the day I quit smoking, in June of 1990.