Originally Posted By: MacTech
the humble Bic lighter is so common and mundane as to be ignorable, it's a commodity, nothing more, a simple, basic, reliable source of flame, nothing more


And it's utterly cheap. What more could you ask for? Zippos are great if you're riding Harleys and lighting cigarettes, but I'll take a $0.99 Bic over a Zippo everyday of the week, as a common, mundane commodity, that is nothing more than a reliable source of flame wink