++++ The Giss++++

[overdover]

I think smoking the cigar while barbequeing will work just fine then everyone will be happy. Oh wait, nothing really makes the tree hugger vegan types happy unless they are allowed to impose their will.

[AmyHollar]

Does this friend drink alcohol?

Or eat at Mc Donalds.

Use the microwave.

Drive a car.

Not have a bath mat down.

Have unprotected sex.

Deliver a baby.

Live at my house............................

[AmyHollar]

Honestly..........I'm a little more disgusted at the "powers that be" at the USTA..........there is always going to be opinions.............kind of ridiculous to be swayed 

[The Giss]

Maybe change it to"Bourbon With the Giss."
2nd hand Bourbon, oh, never mind. The thought police are out there. They control the agenda. And we wonder why the industry cannot gain/keep fans.
When Ohio worked so hard to pass slots at tracks the "first" time, track managers were blissfully unaware of the result of the "no indoor smoking law," which was also on the ballot. I remain convinced that this was the killing blow to Ohio racing.

[Mr. B]

Whatever the name, don't be afraid to play the Cal Expo pick-4.  It pays great every week, even with 25 claimers.      There is usually 1 or 2 singles each week which makes it easy to play for an affordable price!

[pezz97]

A person who watched members of the older generation of his family die a slow, painfull, and aganizing death due to smoking.

My generation grew up watching "The Marlboro Man" on TV every night on hundreds of adds.
Most very teenage boy wanted to be "The Maraboro Man" and get the girl.
Most every teenage girl wanted to be swept off her feet by "The Marlboro Man", and ride off into the sunset with him and his horse.
Now our hero has died an ugly death due to smoking, and we (my generation) are dying off hundreds a day due to smoking.
Granted "The Giss" and his cigar are not "The Marlboro Man" or even "Joe Camel", but lets not again glorify a deadly habit. Have we not learned any thing from the past?

The man who complained and sent me the Email has no grandchildren, but he is trying to protect yours.

Yeah cause that is really what is wrong in the world today..... 

No what is wrong in the world today is people like you and your friend trying to tell everyone how to live their lives. But the f**k out!!!!

[LVGaryD]

A person who watched members of the older generation of his family die a slow, painfull, and aganizing death due to smoking.

My generation grew up watching "The Marlboro Man" on TV every night on hundreds of adds.
Most very teenage boy wanted to be "The Maraboro Man" and get the girl.
Most every teenage girl wanted to be swept off her feet by "The Marlboro Man", and ride off into the sunset with him and his horse.
Now our hero has died an ugly death due to smoking, and we (my generation) are dying off hundreds a day due to smoking.
Granted "The Giss" and his cigar are not "The Marlboro Man" or even "Joe Camel", but lets not again glorify a deadly habit. Have we not learned any thing from the past?

The man who complained and sent me the Email has no grandchildren, but he is trying to protect yours.

My own father died September 23, 2005 (Jug Day) of esophageal cancer, this after he had melanoma in 1968, his left lung removed in 1989. His father (my grandfather) had lung cancer in his left lung. The lung was removed, and six months later, he died of a heart aneurysm. My father and his father both smoked.

My father's brother never smoked in his life. He too now has stage four lung cancer that has spread to his bones, pancreas, and liver. He too is likely screwed, and probably sooner than later.

I do not smoke, but by my own choice I work in a casino that allows smoking. I may or may not get cancer, but I already have asthmatic bronchitis and have had it for 55 years. I have a brother who smokes who already has COPD, and another brother who doesn't smoke, but has had pneumonia twice in his left lung. I would guess that all of the men on my father's side of the family have inherited bad lung genes.

That being said, it is not my business if anyone smokes or doesn't. I am not a busy body who gives one tiny little damn if someone smokes, drinks, eats aspartame, gambles, is gay, or chooses a different religion than mine. I don't even care if Careless Hal plays blackjack badly-it's his money! I simply mind my own affairs, and everyone would be better off minding their own affairs...and raising their own kids and grandkids.

[beans and weenies]

  AMEN GARY!

[beans and weenies]

Honestly..........I'm a little more disgusted at the "powers that be" at the USTA..........there is always going to be opinions.............kind of ridiculous to be swayed 

TOTALY AGREE.   

[careless hal]

I don't even care if Careless Hal plays blackjack badly-it's his money! I simply mind my own affairs, and everyone would be better off minding their own affairs...and raising their own kids and grandkids.

Yeah, but I have an excuse--too many chicks bothering me in Vegas.  Can't concentrate on the game. Remember when those 3 hot chicks returning to their room(or trying to) came over and had to High  5 me--I forgot to double down!!

No one will say smoking is good for you.  It would be nice if it didn't exist.  But as long as it is legal, it comes down to individual choice.  Reports are that fewer and fewer are taking up the filthy habit. That is good.  The government likes to tell us what to do in almost every facet of our lives.  Now they are taking little kids lunches away from them and forcing them to eat chicken nuggets.  When they try to outlaw pizza, I'm taking to the streets with my M16.

[LVGaryD]

I don't even care if Careless Hal plays blackjack badly-it's his money! I simply mind my own affairs, and everyone would be better off minding their own affairs...and raising their own kids and grandkids.

Yeah, but I have an excuse--too many chicks bothering me in Vegas.  Can't concentrate on the game. Remember when those 3 hot chicks returning to their room(or trying to) came over and had to High  5 me--I forgot to double down!!

No one will say smoking is good for you.  It would be nice if it didn't exist.  But as long as it is legal, it comes down to individual choice.  Reports are that fewer and fewer are taking up the filthy habit. That is good.  The government likes to tell us what to do in almost every facet of our lives.  Now they are taking little kids lunches away from them and forcing them to eat chicken nuggets.  When they try to outlaw pizza, I'm taking to the streets with my M16.

Yes and I believe all my waitresses drool over you too. I know from personal experience how distracting they are. 

[tonyb147]

Or eat at Mc Donalds.

Use the microwave.

Drive a car.

Not have a bath mat down.

Have unprotected sex.

Deliver a baby.

Live at my house............................

Or GAMBLING, as in pari-mutual wagering. On HARNESS RACING.

I have a friend whose life was destroyed due to a gambling addiction. I'm going to email the USTA and ask them to eliminate all forms of wagering on all races so that no one's grandchildren suffer the same fate as my friend.

Bunch of HYPOCRITES! 

[AmyHollar]

That was kind of my point too Tony........IT'S GAMBLING! 

[Just Saying]

There is a gentleman that operates several McDonalds franchises in my area, and is a very sharp buisnessman. Being a campus town, we are beset with many activists. Well, a bunch of PETA/Vegan types came into one of his busy resaurants and started bitching about him selling meat and deep-fried food, blah, blah, blah. They were calling for a boycott of his stores.

His reply: "Go ahead, you don't buy sh*t here anyway! Now quit bothering my customers or I'll have you thrown in jail."  They moved on to somewhere else where someone would knuckle under to them. That's the only way to handle these idiots.

I average about 1 cigar every 1-2 years.(or more often if I run into Chicago Jazz) Anyone that doesn't like it can kiss my kiester. Funny how the activists and politicians won't ban tobacco, because they want the gazillions of tax dollars from it to waste on other stuff. Total hypocrites.

[MichiganDale]

I have been following this folly......an interesting folly to say the least.  First up, Smoking is not illegal.   Giss's picture was of a man and his trademark cigar - so be it.  My dad smoked, he died a smoker.   I do not smoke nor do I care to - its all about choice.   Did Giss' picture include a statement or a ad saying PLEASE BE LIKE ME AND SMOKE A CIGAR?   No, I don't think so.  Much as its not for me I respect peoples right to smoke and expect them to respect my decision to not smoke.

This whole nonsense is overkill, much ado about nothing as I see it.  The stogie was/is Giss's trademark, for better or for worse.   I don't see anyway it was encouraging people to smoke.

If USTA required the change, I'm not happy about it and view it as a over-reaction knee jerk decision to please a few while not pleasing the rest.   Geez.    Aren't there better more important things to deal with?