[Ads-l] RES: just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946

[David Daniel]

In high school (mid-sixties) L.S.M.F.T. was said to mean "Let's Stop My
Finger's Tired"
DAD


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De: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] Em nome de
Jonathan Lighter
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2019 13:24
Para: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Assunto: Re: just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946

Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: just "just a cigar, kiddo" 1946
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>  Apparently, an advertisement campaign taught consumers that L.S.M.F.T.
stood for Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco.

Well known into the 1960s.

JL

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 11:53 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Stephen Goranson wrote:
> > It is widely agreed that Freud did not write "sometimes a cigar is 
> > just a cigar," even though the psychoanalyst and writer Allen 
> > Wheelis in
> > 1950 wrote that Freud had done. But Freud did influence comedians, 
> > some of them Jewish--Jack Benny, Groucho Marx, maybe George Burns 
> > and others--who did joke about cigars, sometimes in a Freudian-aware 
> > manner.
> > Maybe (or maybe not) Wheelis was aware of such jokes and presumed an 
> > explicit source for them.
> >
> > On 1 February 1946, the Desert Sun [CA; Elephind] p. 1 col. a:
> >
> > On the radio he [Jack Benny, and his writers are also mentioned] 
> > says L.S.M.F.T., but off the air he says J.A.C.K. And that doesn't 
> > mean his first name. It stands for "Just a Cigar, Kiddo."
>
> Apparently, an advertisement campaign taught consumers that L.S.M.F.T.
> stood for Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. So J.A.C.K. might be a 
> sardonic response to the advertisement.
> Garson
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