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Elegant fish-mouthed ashtray

Mark Frauenfelder at 4:09 pm Mon, Oct 22, 2007

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Can there be any better way to show your respect for the great outdoors than by flicking cigarette ashes into the gaping mouth of a real fish head?

This article from a 1940s how-to magazine (from the personal library of Mister Jalopy), shows you how to make a Game Fish Ashtray of your own.

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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Jack Zavada

Hey, would that be a basstray?
JIMWICh

I hope anyone using that elegant fish-mouthed ashtray is using this equally elegant fishing lure/cigarette lighter:

US Patent 6000932

Lighter that is convertible to a fishing lure
Tommy

Well, that’s better than the misogynistic ones I’ve been seeing on Gizmodo lately.
ZippySpincycle

Fish heads, fish heads, trashy ashy fish heads!
Fish heads, fish heads, smoke ‘em up, yum!