A tramp is addicted to nicotine but cannot afford cigarettes.
So he figured out that he can make one cigarette
from seven cigarette ends.
He has 49 cigarette ends.
Kyra_Ny <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
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I was able to work that one out from personal experience of something that happened over 50 years. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" /> Here's a story about it:
<span class='standouttext'>Spoiler : </span><span class='spoiler'> In the days before the dangers of cigarettes were widely known, it was quite common practice for working people who "rolled their own" to take their last butt, peel off the paper, and shred the tobacco back into the tin. In this way you never threw any tobacco away. But of course the length that you put back in the tin was absolutely saturated with tars and other nasties.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />
As a very small boy I had seen our gardener doing this, so I assumed that butts were valuable items. So I collected a pile of them from on the ground in various places and solemnly presented him with this magnificent 'gift'! Old Bill, being a kind hearted fellow, accepted my grisly offering with great grace, and never let on that I'd given him something quite disgusting! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/delight.gif" alt="" />
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