Ashtray
An ashtray is a receptacle for ash from cigarettes and cigars. Ashtrays are typically made of fireproof material such as glass, heat-resistant plastic, pottery, metal, or rock. Improvised ashtrays may include coffee cans and glasses.
The most common ashtray design is a shallow cylinder with a flat base, to rest on a table. Other ashtrays, particularly in public places, are wall mounted, and larger than standard tabletop ashtrays due to the increased use they receive. Many ashtrays have notches at the rim, to hold cigarettes and/or a cigar. In Spain, some ashtrays consist of two interlocking parts, the bottom of which is filled with water. Ashtrays are also often built into cars and dustbins, and provided in toilets and other public places.
Ashtrays were not a common part of life until the early 20th century, when cigarette manufacturers began to encourage the development of ashtrays as an American consumer product. The word itself did not come into common use until 1926. Ashtrays have been a popular advertising vehicle. Collectors look for ashtrays with clever and unusual ads, colors, shapes and sizes. Some ashtrays of the late 1940s to early 1970s were freeform vehicles for Googie styling. Designers noted for their ashtray design include Marianne Brandt, Maurice Ascalon, Walter Bosse's hedgehog ashtrays, and Masahiro Mori. During the 1950s and 1960s, small personal ashtrays were part of a table setting, commonly placed on the top right-hand side, behind the wine and water glasses. An accompanying item, the silent butler, would be used to collect ashes from the ashtrays, rather than carrying the ashtrays to a trashcan.
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Ashtray
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- White Sugar Is the Devil released: 2005
Ashtray
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by Daan
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by Screeching Weasel
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by Something For Kate
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by Beast
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by Ashtray
Ashtray
by: DaanI'm gonna beat the sweetness in youi'm gonna wipe you brown
I'm gonna find you
What's the clue, babe?
Who makes a fluttering sound?
Can you imagine all the fruitcakes you were afraid to steal?
Can you imagine spies and angels, ready for signing a deal?
Life is an ashtray
Love is a drag
You're never alone, girl
All hens on deck
There's an enormous field
Upon the hill where we were born
Big men are driving big machines there
Ready to collect the corn
We'll be the spread upon their sandwich
We're gonna tape the porn
Und if wir gehen ins kino, mädchen
We're gonna blow the horn
Life is an ashtray
Love is a drag
You're never alone, girl
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