Most Recognized Pipe Smoker?

dispatch

Might Stick Around

May 11, 2011

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• May 24, 2011

• #1

Who would you say is the most recognized pipe smoker of all time? ::

 

brian64

Lifer

Jan 31, 2011

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14,756

• May 24, 2011

• #2

Gotta be Sherlock. Unless it's limited to real people...then it's really hard to say anymore, but I'd probably choose Tolkien.

 

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teamhavoc28

Can't Leave

Nov 10, 2010

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• May 24, 2011

• #3

I'd go with Douglas MacArthur. Almost always photographed with a cob.

 

puffy

Lifer

Dec 24, 2010

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98

North Carolina

• May 24, 2011

• #4

I think it could be different people depending on who was famous at a particular point in time.Three that come to mind.Mark Twain,Bing Crosby,and Hugh Hefner.There are many more.Some I can't remember,some I can remember but I can't spell their names.Those of us who lived in Michigan some time back remember Jerry Ford

 

collin

Part of the Furniture Now

Oct 29, 2010

881

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Oklahoma

• May 24, 2011

• #5

In order:
Santa Claus

Frosty the Snowman

General MacArthur

Bing Crosby

Hugh Hefner

Mark Twain

 

cortezattic

Lifer

Nov 19, 2009

15,147

7,638

Chicago, IL

• May 24, 2011

• #6

Ditto Tommy, and I'd add Einstein.
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But lots of notables have smoked a pipe in the past; we just don't realize how common it was.

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See close-up pics of the pipe.

 

lordofthepiperings

Lifer

May 3, 2010

6,442

1,494

Las Vegas, NV

• May 25, 2011

• #7

Fictional definitely Holmes, real I'd probably say Mark Twain or General MacArthur.

 

pstlpkr

Lifer

Dec 14, 2009

9,694

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Birmingham, AL

• May 25, 2011

• #8

Professor Peabody:

 

nabottle

Can't Leave

Apr 27, 2011

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• May 25, 2011

• #9

Holmes. Sherlock, NOT John.

 

mlaug

Part of the Furniture Now

May 23, 2010

908

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Iowa

• May 25, 2011

• #10

 

nemrod

Can't Leave

Apr 28, 2011

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Sweden

• May 25, 2011

• #11

Among the "young" generations I think Hans Landa in Inglorious Bastards is a familiar face as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUcCacgMtCw

 

jankomatic

Starting to Get Obsessed

Sep 12, 2010

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Tampa, FL

• May 25, 2011

• #12

MacArthur and Holmes would be my guess.

 

kf5eqv

Starting to Get Obsessed

Mar 6, 2011

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Oklahoma

• May 25, 2011

• #13

Didn't the pictures of Santa Claus always used to have him smoking a pipe?
Also, while they may not be widely known for being pipe smokers, John Adams and Robert E. Lee always come to my mind when I think of pipe smokers. I know there are several pipe smokers in our nations history, I'm not really sure why those two specifically stand out.

 

yuri66

Starting to Get Obsessed

Nov 17, 2010

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• May 25, 2011

• #14

You guys forgot Lawrence's favorite Lee Van Cleef, there is hardly a movie in which he is not smoking a pipe...

 

punkpiper

Starting to Get Obsessed

May 12, 2011

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• May 25, 2011

• #15

Going a little more left field, I'd have to say Subcomandante Marcos. well known in the right circles. or left, as the case may be.

 

julesholling

Starting to Get Obsessed

Jan 19, 2011

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Sutton, Surrey

• May 25, 2011

• #16

Fictional has probably got to be Sherlock Holmes, real life i'm not sure. There are quite a few famous people often pictured with pipes but the most famous that popped into my head would have to be Einstein.

 

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kaos968

Lurker

May 16, 2011

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• May 25, 2011

• #17

Albert Einstein?

 

kf5eqv

Starting to Get Obsessed

Mar 6, 2011

211

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Oklahoma

• May 25, 2011

• #18

"Going a little more left field..."

I see what you did there. lol
Che was also a pipe smoker, and IIRC Stalin as well.

 

schmitzbitz

Lifer

Jan 13, 2011

1,165

2

Port Coquitlam, B.C.

• May 25, 2011

• #19

Well, with Einstein on the list, Robert Oppenheimer should probably get notable mention; he did have a pipe in just about every photograph taken of him. I would say Hef is probably the celeb most known for his pipe; it (in combination with his trademark slippers and smoking jacket) have become as much of a symbol for Playboy as the bunny.
Edit to add: King George - he's pretty famous!

 

collin

Part of the Furniture Now

Oct 29, 2010

881

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Oklahoma

• May 25, 2011

• #20

Poor old Oppenheimer was a chain-smoker deluxe! At least according to a great bio-film I watched the other night.