Marlboro Adventure Team
Crumby has belatedly merged with or volunteered into the Marlboro Adventure Team ranks with the purchase of a Trail Guide. Near as Crumby can figure out, the heyday of the Adventure Team was back in 1993-1994, but it may have puffed along for a good while after that. Regardless, there are still plenty of Adventure Team artifacts (gear) for sale on EBAY.
Crumby's big concern regarding these artifacts is, Do they smell like cigarettes? Like for example, a suede bomber jacket for $29.95 is a good deal. But not if it stinks to high heaven, like cigarette smoke. Mercy!
Yet Crumby was willing to take a chance on a Marlboro Adventure Team Victorinox Swiss Army Knife known as the Trail Guide. The Trail Guide features plus scales with pen, metal file, scissors, corkscrew with mini-screwdriver and a combo tool. So it's actually a Compact with a metal file added; a handy combination of useful tools. Not necessarily tools one might assume go with Trail Guide, but handy nonetheless. The Ovate's Trail Guide came in its original box and includes instructions in four languages on how to operate the combo tool by yourself.
Crumby was super afraid the box would smell like cigarette smoke and be all yellow. However, praise the Goddess, it's not. Just a couple of smudges on the box, maybe from nicotine stained fingers. Hallelujah!
Hmm. Actually it's twain boxes. There's a Victorinox box inside the Marlboro box.
Alas, back in the 90s, Crumby self-medicated with chewing tobacco or mostly snuff; thus, missing out on the Marlboro Adventure Team festivities and prizes. Seems like none of the tobacco products Crumby enjoyed featured rewards for maximized product use. That is until the American Snuff Company gave away free knives with purchases of Grizzly Snuff, Crumby's favorite brand. Crumby received at least four knives during the give away including these two. The others were lost or given away. They are not very good knives.
Crumby's big concern regarding these artifacts is, Do they smell like cigarettes? Like for example, a suede bomber jacket for $29.95 is a good deal. But not if it stinks to high heaven, like cigarette smoke. Mercy!
Yet Crumby was willing to take a chance on a Marlboro Adventure Team Victorinox Swiss Army Knife known as the Trail Guide. The Trail Guide features plus scales with pen, metal file, scissors, corkscrew with mini-screwdriver and a combo tool. So it's actually a Compact with a metal file added; a handy combination of useful tools. Not necessarily tools one might assume go with Trail Guide, but handy nonetheless. The Ovate's Trail Guide came in its original box and includes instructions in four languages on how to operate the combo tool by yourself.
Crumby was super afraid the box would smell like cigarette smoke and be all yellow. However, praise the Goddess, it's not. Just a couple of smudges on the box, maybe from nicotine stained fingers. Hallelujah!
Hmm. Actually it's twain boxes. There's a Victorinox box inside the Marlboro box.
Alas, back in the 90s, Crumby self-medicated with chewing tobacco or mostly snuff; thus, missing out on the Marlboro Adventure Team festivities and prizes. Seems like none of the tobacco products Crumby enjoyed featured rewards for maximized product use. That is until the American Snuff Company gave away free knives with purchases of Grizzly Snuff, Crumby's favorite brand. Crumby received at least four knives during the give away including these two. The others were lost or given away. They are not very good knives.
posted by ray pistrum at Thursday, February 27, 2014
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