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  • For your driver's license, just use what I have for many years: an "Altoids" tin (or similar item).

    Slashdot 2009

  • All the gear in any survival kit should fit in an Altoids tin.

    First survivial kit 2009

  • No, I'm not talking about bed bugs or birds falling from the sky or the increase of wannabe Justin Bieber-hairdos on middle-aged male athletes and I'm certainly not referring to all the preteens who are snorting crushed Altoids.

    Annie Stamell: FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out Annie Stamell 2011

  • All shirt sleeves are starched and everyone's breath smells like Altoids.

    The Best Sports Car, and Why to Skip It Dan Neil 2011

  • No, I'm not talking about bed bugs or birds falling from the sky or the increase of wannabe Justin Bieber-hairdos on middle-aged male athletes and I'm certainly not referring to all the preteens who are snorting crushed Altoids.

    Annie Stamell: FOMO, the Fear of Missing Out Annie Stamell 2011

  • I came in and found him sitting on the bare mattress, clutching the Altoids box, the fourth and most secret box with all its rubber bands in place.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • Clutching his Altoids box with the rubber bands, his special secret box.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • All the gear in any survival kit should fit in an Altoids tin.

    First survivial kit 2009

  • Z lays the chessmen to sleep in one of his four big tin boxes, now empty of their original Altoids.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • Make sure to check out how to build an Altoids Catapult, an Altoids Trebuchet, and a Sharpie rocket.

    Construct A Crossbow Out Of Office Supplies | Impact Lab 2010

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  • Altoids are a brand of breath mints that have existed since the 18th century.

    February 20, 2015

  • Demented, according to Freud,

    Demanding his joy unalloyed,

    Oblivious in bliss

    Found nothing amiss:

    Demantoids as mints he enjoyed.

    See also demantoid.

    February 20, 2015