
kikipeepers asked
PITTSBURGH, Pa. (Wireless Flash) -- The art of doing tricks using Zippo lighters is spreading like wildfire across the U.S. Acrobatic twirling and lighting tricks using Zippo lighters has become so popular that the Zippo company is turning the underground art form into a nightclub tour. No one knows how the tricks started, but one theory is that soldiers performed them to pass the time during WWII. Company brass caught wind of the trend when their lawyers stumbled onto a Norwegian man's website,. Rather than shut the site down for copyright violation, they decided to launch a nightclub tour -- starting later this summer -- to exploit the popularity of tricks like the 'Snoop' and 'Belgian Flip.' A company spokesman says about 500 different tricks have been documented and the tour will hit 10 different cities...
274 answers · 0 comments
Answer this yourself in the app
See how this splits by age, gender, and region in the app.