Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent
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So, I showed this YouTube to my wife and she said that if I ever smoked a pipe in the house the next smoke I'd have in my lungs would be from a running car in a closed garage. (Kidding, I hope.)
I'd like to have a room like that, too.
@Tom-K said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
So, I showed this YouTube to my wife and she said that if I ever smoked a pipe in the house the next smoke I'd have in my lungs would be from a running car in a closed garage. (Kidding, I hope.)
I'd like to have a room like that, too.
HO-
LEEESHIIITE
Whatcha doin’ son?
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The beard, the hair, the eyebrows… Let’s face it guys, he probably doesn’t have to worry too much about what the old lady says about smoking a pipe…
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He reminds me slightly of my dad, although he was slightly less extreme in mannerism and didn't have the beard. His office (a/k/a part of the family dining room) did rather resemble that room on occasion.
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Pipes are such a pain in the ass. So much paraphernalia has to be toted about. Tobacco pouch, tamper, lighter, cleaners, bowl scraper....
And, if not properly prepared, a pain to keep lit.
Then there's the "snob" factor. Not in this case, but, don't you always sorta look at some twat (is that the right word here?) with a pipe as being pretentious?
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Pipes are such a pain in the ass. So much paraphernalia has to be toted about. Tobacco pouch, tamper, lighter, cleaners, bowl scraper....
And, if not properly prepared, a pain to keep lit.
Then there's the "snob" factor. Not in this case, but, don't you always sorta look at some twat (is that the right word here?) with a pipe as being pretentious?
@George-K said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
Then there's the "snob" factor. Not in this case, but, don't you always sorta look at some twat (is that the right word here?) with a pipe as being pretentious?
My dad smoked one well into his 50's, and somehow managed not to. He never quite seemed himself after he gave it up.
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@George-K said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
Then there's the "snob" factor. Not in this case, but, don't you always sorta look at some twat (is that the right word here?) with a pipe as being pretentious?
My dad smoked one well into his 50's, and somehow managed not to. He never quite seemed himself after he gave it up.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
My dad smoked one well into his 50's
So did mine, as a matter of fact. I suppose I'm talking about the self-worshipping academic types. Students and faculty.
Of course, smoking is not as common now, so these creatures need another way to assert their self-importance. Probably by announcing that they're vegan or trans.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
My dad smoked one well into his 50's
So did mine, as a matter of fact. I suppose I'm talking about the self-worshipping academic types. Students and faculty.
Of course, smoking is not as common now, so these creatures need another way to assert their self-importance. Probably by announcing that they're vegan or trans.
@George-K said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
another way to assert their self-importance.
Mensa
My father the professor joined Mensa about the same time he started with the pipe.
Neither lasted very long, we ridiculed him mercilessly.
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So, I showed this YouTube to my wife and she said that if I ever smoked a pipe in the house the next smoke I'd have in my lungs would be from a running car in a closed garage. (Kidding, I hope.)
I'd like to have a room like that, too.
@Tom-K said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
So, I showed this YouTube to my wife and she said that if I ever smoked a pipe in the house the next smoke I'd have in my lungs would be from a running car in a closed garage. (Kidding, I hope.)
I'd like to have a room like that, too.
Pipes can actually smell good and are much cheaper than a Yankee Candle.
Try that line...
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
My dad smoked one well into his 50's
So did mine, as a matter of fact. I suppose I'm talking about the self-worshipping academic types. Students and faculty.
Of course, smoking is not as common now, so these creatures need another way to assert their self-importance. Probably by announcing that they're vegan or trans.
@George-K said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
My dad smoked one well into his 50's
So did mine, as a matter of fact. I suppose I'm talking about the self-worshipping academic types. Students and faculty.
Of course, smoking is not as common now, so these creatures need another way to assert their self-importance. Probably by announcing that they're vegan or trans.
Very common to see pipes at a Renn Faire. Trust me, it isn't a self-importance thing, it's a hippie thing.
Fountain pens, too. There are two groups: old men who use Mont Blancs, Parkers and Crosses, and nerds who use TWSBIs, Pilots and Lamys and each doesn't know the other exists.
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
My dad smoked one well into his 50's
So did mine, as a matter of fact. I suppose I'm talking about the self-worshipping academic types. Students and faculty.
Of course, smoking is not as common now, so these creatures need another way to assert their self-importance. Probably by announcing that they're vegan or trans.
@George-K said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Sunday Respite: Smaug the Magnificent:
My dad smoked one well into his 50's
So did mine, as a matter of fact. I suppose I'm talking about the self-worshipping academic types. Students and faculty.
My dad came from a very different world than I did - English public school (i.e. private boarding school), followed by Cambridge University. His parents were fairly well-to-do. He escaped it (quite possibly deliberately, it's a long story) to become a scientist in the north of England, but he never really escaped the look. Tweed sport-jacket and a vaguely bemused air. The pipe fitted him perfectly. I did receive a fair amount of teasing from my friends, but he was so genuine and well-liked an eccentric that nobody ever thought the worse of him.
