THREE STOOGES TO GET OWN LINE OF STOGIES

THREE STOOGES TO GET OWN LINE OF STOGIES

LOS ANGELES (Wireless Flash) -- The Three Stooges will soon become the Three Stogies. A company that owns the rights to the Stooge likenesses has just approved a line of Three Stooges cigars which will sport wrappers featuring the loveable knuckleheads smoking up a storm. The Stooge stogies will sell for around $7 each and come in three varieties: "robusto," "corona," and -- you guessed it -- "curlio." A spokesman for Comedy III Partners, which owns the rights to the Stooges, admits some folks might be offended to see the Stooges promoting cigar smoking, but the real Stooges actually puffed on cigars in at least 12 films. Next month the company will also introduce a Three Stooges Slot Machine designed for gambling casinos.

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