Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1a 12/4/83; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!seismo!rlgvax!plunkett From: plunkett@rlgvax.UUCP (Scott Plunkett) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.misc,net.religion,net.med Subject: Re: Why Smoke? Message-ID: <2015@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Jun-84 09:38:23 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.2015 Posted: Tue Jun 12 09:38:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jun-84 02:02:54 EDT References: <269@ihu1e.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 13 "..dad saying no isn't going to cut it.." ... it depends on *how* you say no. I know a chap, of Polish extraction, who once told me how his father convinced him never to smoke. Understand that his father had the strength of several bulldozers, was the size of a house, and had hands the size of shovels. Father once said to son slowly with unflinching eye contact: "Son, if I ever catch you smoking," he said, "I will break both your legs." To reassure his son that this was not infact an act of mercy, he continued, "..and if that doesn't make you stop, I'll kill you." Son never smoked, never particularly wanted to, after that heart- to-heart. -- ..{allegra,seismo}!rlgvax!plunkett