Althouse: At the wedding reception: "bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes, and everyone smoked the whole night."

November 30, 2015

At the wedding reception: "bowls and bowls filled with cigarettes, and everyone smoked the whole night."

The ever-childlike Mary-Kate Olsen, 29, married the 46-year-old French banker Olivier Sarkozy (the half-brother of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy).

ADDED: Maybe it was a tribute to France... to France and survival... survival, French style.

12 comments:

David Begley said...: Sick.

And in NYC?; 11/30/15, 6:14 AM
traditionalguy said...: Tobacco Road thanks you. And New York thanks you too if the cigs were tax stamped and not run in from North Carolina.
burden.

Since I smoked, the price per pack is taxed until it is $18 from $1.50. French intellectuals need nicotine and smoke to think better.

Trump never smoked, but Obama chain smokes or chain chews Nicolette or both.; 11/30/15, 8:21 AM
MadisonMan said...: Not a wedding reception I would have hung around for.

Is there anything worse than the sick smell of smoke lingering on your clothes when you get home from a smoky bar? I really do not miss that and am glad bars are smoke-free now.; 11/30/15, 8:38 AM
cubanbob said...: The French have a theory that the right age for a wife is half the man's age plus seven years which is the case here. I can see what he sees in her but it's not clear what she sees in him.; 11/30/15, 8:40 AM
Bryan C said...: Or maybe they just like to smoke. In my experience Europeans aren't nearly as prudish about such things.; 11/30/15, 10:47 AM
Levi Starks said...: Poor guy, I guess he married her for her money.; 11/30/15, 11:21 AM
Jaq said...: One of my favorite memories of working in France was the bathroom where there was a sign that read basically: "It has been the law in France since < mumble mumble > that smoking is not allowed in the workplace..."

Directly below the sign was an ash tray with a sign to please use it. I like people who take their freedom seriously. It seems like everybody smoked there. I don't smoke, but it didn't bother me.; 11/30/15, 12:19 PM
Unknown said...: Looks like she last washed her hair in 2013. Is this another ironic thing? She's too old to be a millenial, and that must piss her off; 11/30/15, 12:34 PM
John Holland said...: "It's a May-December marriage..."

Dumb use of a boring cliche.

29 isn't that young, and 46 isn't that old. But I guess "May-July" isn't as much fun to tweet.

And speaking of the thoughtless repetition of bad old ideas, thanks to Bloomberg's Modern Temperance Movement, cigarettes are the new bathtub gin. Coming up next: police raids to bust up smoking speakeasies. They'll start with the poor neighborhoods in Harlem, and gradually work their way up to the Mary-Kates, kinda like how the cops saved John Lennon for last.

Best way to avoid hard time: cut your "demon tobacco" with medical marijuana.; 11/30/15, 12:35 PM
Bill said...: Well, there's nostalgie de la boue; why not nostalgie de la fumée?; 11/30/15, 12:53 PM
Jaq said...: Passport to Paris, my daughters loved that movie.

I am sure it will work now, but I have witnessed now a few marriages where a young woman married an older man, and now she is still somewhat young and he is really old. It's kind of sad.

Of course in France, when the time comes, she will be allowed her 'outlets,' which is good.; 11/30/15, 4:24 PM
Jaq said...: Why does that picture remind me of "Ne lave pas Josephine! I will be there in three days!"; 11/30/15, 4:26 PM