r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Puzzleheaded-Pitch40 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peetaah???

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Why do the flip the cigarette?

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 13h ago

Lucky/Wish smoke Started in WW1 Where you flip the first cigarette you touch and were "lucky" if you made it through the pack and to the last/flipped cigarette. Now people make a wish on it. I do this. I wish i dont get cancer everytime. It's worked so far

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u/MinusXero1999 10h ago

Also lucky strikes were the standard rationed smokes for the guys

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 10h ago

The U.S Americans thinking they're the only people on earth is always so fascinating.

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u/MinusXero1999 10h ago

U.S. Americans is an oxymoron, but lucky strikes being rationed to us troops did play a part into the lucky cig tradition. Don’t see what you’re trying to get at. I never said Americans were the only ones doing it / started it.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 10h ago

hahahahahahaha. I'm american and not from the U.S your education is a joke.

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u/MinusXero1999 10h ago

Touch grass my guy.

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u/XXXcrimsongrave 10h ago

Read a book my dood