Souvenirs

[bmgb]

I was thinking of putting this in the Dodads thread, but I'm not sure if it would fit in.

I've got this lighter I picked up from a street vendor in Singapore. I actually bought two of them at the time, for maybe US$1 each. They were "merlions," a symbol of Singapore being sort of a combination of a mermaid and a lion.

Open the top, and it starts playing the theme from Titanic... off-key.

When I had both of them, I could open them both at once and they would both play off-key, but in different ways. I've joked often that this lighter could make me stop smoking.

I gave one to a friend of mine, just to make fun of her because she likes the theme from Titanic (she actually thought the lighter was pretty cool). Now mine has a hard time lighting, so it's pretty frustrating having to listen to more and more of the song before the bugger actually lights. For that reason I no longer use it.