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psychpipes

Can't Leave
Sep 4, 2013
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Hey Gents,
I wanted to share with you a joke I pulled at work yesterday. My Dad pulled this on me a long time ago, and the opportunity presented itself.
I was in the the Exceptional Student Education specialist's office yesterday chit chatting after a meeting. I went to pull my phone out of my pocket, and my Czech tool fell out onto the floor. She picked it up and asked me what it was. She likes to tease me a lot, so I decided to pull one of my dad's jokes out.
I took it from her, and opened it up. I said it was a special survival compass I kept for emergencies. She asked how it worked. I said, holding the pipe nail part, "This part you stick firmly in the ground." Then I held the tamper and said, "This part you face toward the sun." Finally I held reamer part and said, "This part you set horizontal to the ground. It will point to magnetic north." She held it amazed for several minutes.
My supervisor, who knows about pipes, walked into the room and she proceeded to demonstrate it for him. He laughed so hard, and we explained to her what it really was.
She has hence vowed revenge.

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
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I like it! It's imaginative and harmless in a way that many practical jokes aren't.

 

ravkesef

Lifer
Aug 10, 2010
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I did something similar back in my Navy days. I pulled my czech tool out of my pocket and a young sailor asked me: "what's that, Sir? "And I responded "it's a nose picker." I then showed him how the different parts were used for cleaning your nose, because fingers were just too gross. He marveled that officers were a highly educated, sophisticated and Genteel bunch. Then when another sailor happened by, he proceeded to explain to him that this was Mr. Silver's nose picker, and proceeded to show him what the different parts were used for. The other sailor stared and said: "that's Mr. Silver's Pipe Tool!" One very embarrassed sailor. Fortunately, we all had a good laugh over it, and he did not vow revenge. Don't want to have a sailor mad at you.

 

condorlover1

Lifer
Dec 22, 2013
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I remember telling one of former secretaries that my pipe knife was based on the one carried by Irish Teddy Boys and was called a flick hammer!

 
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