I read somewhere that Clarence Darrow used to insert a thin wire through the length of a cigarette and then smoke that cigarette during the opposing lawyer's closing statement. The wire kept the cigarette ash in tact, allowing him to smoke the whole cigarette without the ash ever falling off. Supposedly, by the end of the other lawyer's statement the entire jury was staring at Darrow's precarious cigarette ash.
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That quote, when mathematically decoded, actually gives the hour and the day.