They still have those old school cigarette machines in a few retro-themed bars in this area. Since everyone entering the place gets carded no one underage should have access, but yeah, I remember when those were once in every bar, bowling alley and social club (VFW, Elks, American Legion, etc.) and were easy pickin's for underage kids. In modern times it must be a pain to sit there and feed, what, $6 in quarters into the thing before pulling the handle to dispense your brand of choice.
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Question about obscene content or cursing on the air.
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I'm old enough to remember when they were near the door at most restaurants---not ones with a liquor license---I'm talking Denny's-type places. Right next to the gumball machine.
Oh yeah, when I was a kid there was no such thing as non-smoking areas in restaurants. Then they started to pop up in my teens, but today for the most part completely non smoking in most jurisdictions. My how times change, as many my age like to say.
Yes, Shoney's here.
In my experience the only places that have cigarette machines these days are casinos. I guess vices are vices. Who would have thunk?
They are just now getting serious about the idea of smoke-free casinos in Nevada. Park MGM in Vegas converted in 2020, and a new buyer for the ancient and small Gold ‘n Silver Inn is promising to take it smoke-free.
I have to comment on what happened to me on a comic strip web site. Someone in the comments section said the little girl in the comic strip who wanted to know where babies come from would hear how it happens and say ... maybe I'd better not say it here. That's how bad it was, and that stays up. And I make a G-rated comment about "Jane the Virgin", a TV series, and it gets flagged by the software. I edit it to make it more acceptable and the software deletes it.
Last week's "Walker" on The CW has Cordell naked in bed and his girlfriend walking around in just a t-shirt before she gets back in bed with him. They talk about whether to tell his kids.
The plain-vanilla TV-PG rating does not distinguish between that and a perfectly clean family-oriented program for which some network (usually ABC) was overly cautious.
The plain-vanilla TV-PG rating does not distinguish between that and a perfectly clean family-oriented program for which some network (usually ABC) was overly cautious.
PG is not G. PG is saying parents need to supervise the viewing.
"Monsters Inc.", a G-rated movie, was rated TV-PG on ABC.
This morning, the syndicated "Free Beer and Hot Wings" show was apparently not free to talk about bodily functions. They came up with a euphemism I've never heard before, and that is referring to orgasm as "number three" (to follow the common expressions of going "number one" and "number two").
Someone with a serious digestive problem asks, "Is there a number three?" in a radio commercial I used to hear a lot.
I've said this somewhere on this site but the Fox TV series "Roc:", when I finally saw season one in syndication, was TV-G. The one TV-PG episode had the word orgasm.
Last night on "America's Funniest Home Videos" a little boy was shown flash cards, each one having a word on it, and he was asked to say the word. He saw "as" and said he wasn't allowed to say that one.
I've mentioned it before but I've seen episodes of Roseanne rated G on TV Land, but PG on other channels, which seems more correct to me.
It's been 21 years since I've seen it, but that seems excessive (or a mistake) on ABC's part. Especially given that Disney owns ABC.
Spotted this last night in my travels. Still works and vends ciggies, too! There's a door man at this particular bar so underage purchasing isn't really a concern:
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The closest I ever saw of obscenity and profanity causing the loss of a license involved a South Carolina station about 50 or so years ago. They had a morning man who was obscene... frequently... and the FCC investigated. The licensee showed "lack of candor" in dealing with the issue and the station, an AM daytimer in a small market, lost its license.
Obscenity was not the total cause of the revocation even there, as the bigger sin was not being honest with the FCC; they respond very badly to lying.
I don't buy cigarettes, so I have to ask: how much is a pack in that machine?
they are over $10 a pack over the counter in MA, in NH about $7.00 or so.
A carton of cigarettes in MA is more than the box of cigars I treat myself to a couple of times a year in NH.
the candy & snack machine at the local social club I belong to used to have cigarettes in it along with Doritos and Snickers bars.
A carton of cigarettes in MA is more than the box of cigars I treat myself to a couple of times a year in NH.
the candy & snack machine at the local social club I belong to used to have cigarettes in it along with Doritos and Snickers bars.
Lol, I don't smoke so I'm not sure. That said, it sometimes seems that the folks spending upwards of $10/pack and smoking a pack or more per day to feed their habit, are the ones who appear least able to afford it.
I once heard of a volunteer fire department that bought a soda vending machine, and along with the cans of Coke and Sprite, they also had it loaded with cans of beer. Someone with an axe to grind reported them, the state sent someone in who wasn't a member, the guy walked in and bought a few cans of beer without anyone saying a word or even asking who he was. The department found themselves in the headlines for the wrong reasons that week, and they lost their machine and it cost them some $$ in fines.
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