All Pipe Smokers are Weird...Except You and Me.

[Searock Fan]

Back when I was a kid there was an old codger who hauled trash in the neighborhood. He always had a pipe in his mouth. He carried it in the same place all the time and the stem wore a sore on his lower lip. The sore got "really" bad and finally we didn't see him for a while. When he showed up again there was a big chunk of his lower lip missing (looked really pretty). He said he had to have an operation to remove the sore. I think the operation made it easier for him to hold the pipe, as there it was in the same old place.

 

[VDL_Piper]

"I do not taste like chicken!"

How do you know!!??

 

[bluegrassbrian]

There is no doubt that every last one of us is crazier than a junebug!!

Crazier than a crappie in a car wash.

 

[Searock Fan]

How do you kno

I'm not weird, I just like my own company and that of my dogs...............oh and trespassers taste like chicken.

It's weird how one simple remark is turning this thread into a discussion about cannibalism.

 

[Harley2003rkc]

You must thoroughly and generously pepper with a double '00 shaker

I've only tried slow and suppressed, I'll have to make a note in the cookbook.

 

[Harley2003rkc]

It's weird how one simple remark is turning this thread into a discussion about cannibalism.

It's more of a weird how to get rid of trespassers thing, the cooking suggestion just made it funny.

 

[username]

I don't know I'm pretty weird at times.

 

[Searock Fan]

My psychiatrist says I'm a weird paranoid, but that's because he's out to get me.

 

[samuelgawith01]

I used to know this guy who I called "Mick crazy"... but not to his face. He was obsessed with anything Irish. He had an Irish last name, pro IRA bumper sticker on his car, only liked Irish rock music, drank Guinness, and wore a lot of green clothes. He would only smoke one brand of pipe and never consider anything else. Want to guess what brand it was?

Peterson?

 

[RudyG]

I had a friend who smoked 2 pipes at a time.

Usually one English blend and the other an aromatic.

He liked the different tastes during one smoking session.

Very weird to me, but to each his own

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Never met another pipe smoker in real life, though I have met plenty of folks who side eye you and cough emphatically as they walk by. They're the weird ones if you ask me.

 

[Searock Fan]

Never met another pipe smoker in real life, though I have met plenty of folks who side eye you and cough emphatically as they walk by. They're the weird ones if you ask me.

As you pass them you might say nicely "You should take something for that cough."

 

[Lumbridge]

Maybe I'm weird; I do not suffer from "PAD", and I do not own 300 pipes because I set a hard limit on my own pipe purchasing (no intervention on the wife's part required). I've got a 12 pipe rack for my briars and pear wood pipes, and a small wooden box from the crafts store that I keep my cobs in. I don't allow myself to buy any more pipes than will fit in those two places (the only exceptions being my two churchwardens and a clay).

I smoke the same few pipes all the time, and I'm perfectly happy with that, because they all smoke superbly.

I care for my cobs and clean them just as meticulously as my briars.

I'm finicky about ghosting (despite the fact that I'm aware that it isn't as much of a problem as I often think) so I dedicate most of my pipes to blend types and will only smoke that type of blend out of them - latakia blends only, aromatics only, etc.

I've been told by some people that I lean a bit towards the obsessive-compulsive side, and I'm not going to argue against that.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Never met another pipe smoker in real life, though I have met plenty of folks who side eye you and cough emphatically as they walk by. They're the weird ones if you ask me.

Agree, weird and rude.

But I am curious: I smoke outside all the time, sidewalks, parks, beaches, and only once has someone given me "the cough".

 

[gkunkel]

Not weird at all!

 

[Gimlet]

Every pipe smoker besides me has an obsession with weird hats

And beards.. Surely a fire hazard..?

 

[Elric]

Agree, weird and rude.

But I am curious: I smoke outside all the time, sidewalks, parks, beaches, and only once has someone given me "the cough".

I think I'd be tempted to respond, "That sounds serious. You should get that looked at."

 

[telescopes]

I do tend to cough a lot around people who are masked up and then mutter, “Damned this covid, it’s really killing me. “

 

[jpmcwjr]

I do tend to cough a lot around people who are masked up and then mutter, “Damned this covid, it’s really killing me. “

I sure as hell don't. Usually those folk have Covid, or are in danger of catching anything as they have a weak immune system. I thank them (silently!) for their diligence.

Of course, among them will be a few hypochondriacs, who are damning you for not wearing a mask.

 

[telescopes]

Of course, among them will be a few hypochondriacs, who are damning you for not wearing a mask.

Where I live, this is without a doubt the case. The only thing they despise more is being misgendered or having to talk to someone who fails to leave out one’s personal pronouns when introducing themselves at a party. I’m going to a party tonight where this will once again be the case - however, a good friend of mine is hosting so I really don’t have a choice but to attend.