:02:02
But then they had to screw it up.
:02:13
Hey, Auggie. How's it going?
:02:16
Hey, man. Good to see
you. What'll it be today?
:02:19
Two tins of Schimmelpennincks.
:02:21
And throw in a lighter
while you're at it.
:02:30
The boys and I were just
having a philosophical
:02:33
discussion about women and cigars
:02:39
I suppose it all goes
back to Queen Elizabeth.
:02:43
The Queen of England?
:02:44
Not Elizabeth the Second,
Elizabeth the First.
:02:46
Did you ever hear of Sir Walter Raleigh?
:02:50
Sure. He's the guy who threw
his cloak down over the puddle.
:02:53
I used to smoke Raleigh cigarettes.
:02:56
They came with a free
gift coupon in every pack.
:02:58
That's the man. Well, Raleigh was the
person who introduced tobacco in England,
:03:04
and since he was a
favorite of the Queen's
:03:08
Queen Bess, he used to call her
:03:12
smoking caught on as a fashion at court.
:03:15
I'm sure Old Bess must have shared
a stogie or two with Sir Walter.
:03:22
Once, he made a bet with her that
he could measure the weight of smoke.
:03:29
You mean, weigh smoke?
:03:31
Exactly. Weigh smoke.
:03:34
You can't do that.
It's like weighing air.
:03:36
I admit it's strange. Almost
like weighing someone's soul.
:03:39
But Sir Walter was a clever guy.
:03:42
First, he took an unsmoked cigar and
put it on a balance and weighed it.
:03:49
Then he lit up and smoked the cigar,
:03:51
carefully tapping the
ashes into the balance pan.
:03:55
When he was finished, he
put the butt into the pan
:03:58
along with the ashes and
weighed what was there.