Impressions Of Pipe Smokers

[lestrout]

Was there truth to the old saw that Scotland Yard said to always strike the pipe smokers from the list of possible perps, since they were so trustworthy and honorable?
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les

 

[sfsteves]

mso489 said:

Shirley Jones ... said in a recent interview

that she could have never been married to

a man who wanted his "pipe and slippers."

I don't translate her remark as suggesting that pipe smokers are a stogy bunch at all ... to my way of thinking, she's saying that she could not have been married to a man who expected his wife to fetch and carry ...

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

To me a pipe smoker is someone that enjoys tobacco, the work of a craftsman, they can appreciate the ritual, enjoy solitude and/or the companionship of other pipe smokers, they are thoughtful and giving and don't mind sharing tobacco with others, and will take a few moments to help another person as they start their journey into the hobby.

 

[natibo]

According to my teenagers we all pretty "un-cool" 8)

 

[mso489]

Just as a kind of footnote, Shirley Jones in this interview with Diane Ream, went on to suggest that

her two marriages were to men who were/are kind of crazy, and she means this in a way that

indicates that appeals to her. I'm not sure she meant that a more sedate husband would expect

her to bring him his pipe and slippers; I took it as meaning that was her thumbnail view of a more

dependable and domestic man. In the case of the first hubby, it sounds as if he might have been

better off pipe smoking because an accident dropping a cigarette into a couch cost him his life.

No joke there.