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Inside every Cigarettus Digitalus is slender replica finger bone. As you
smoke the dreaded product it gradually reveals its core in graphic
detail.
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digitalis is a type of shrub... that's why I didn't use. |
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Lat. finger = digitus, genitive: digiti. "Hot digiti"? |
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I always thought that digitalis was a foxglove. |
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Nice idea, though i wonder if it'll work because apparently the photos of lung cancer (in Canada?) on the packets don't.
Digitalis as in foxglove is from digitabulum, meaning thimble. Digitalis would also be the adjectival form of the name. The problem is then that you're using the wrong word for cigarette. The Latin for cigarette is sigarellum, which is neuter, so the correct title for this idea is "Sigarellum digitale". |
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//The Latin for cigarette is sigarellum//
So they got there before Sir Walter Raleigh? |
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Cool! I'd buy them just to collect the finger bones. Maybe
also a little replica wrecked car in the bottle of every
bottle of beer? And, indeed, cars could be modified to
dispense teeny blue-lipped replica corpses from their
exhaust pipes. |
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This would be much more fun than just having pictures on
the packets like they do now. I mean, once you've
collected all the pictures, where's the incentive to buy
more cigarettes? The fingerbones could be made with
little pop-bead type connectors, so you could build
progressively weirder skeletal structures. If you want a
marketing ploy, you have to think long-term and customer
retention. |
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//So they got there before Sir Walter Raleigh?//
No, but we still have the Vatican and tobacco
isn't the only thing you can roll up, set fire to and
stick in your mouth. |
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