An Alternative to Birth Year Pipes

[Servant King]

Warning: note that I did not say it was a practical alternative...

With all the hype around birth year pipes, I thought of something better: death year pipes. I know, it's tough to know in advance what year you're going to kick the bucket, but assuming you're either clairvoyant or suicidal (or both), you get your death year pipe early in the year, and depending on when during that calendar year you'll croak, you have X amount of time to enjoy it, knowing the end finally approacheth.

Just a more unorthodox take on the whole idea. Carry on.

And as George Carlin once said, these are some of the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools...

 

[anotherbob]

there is a way to be pretty sure. Buy a new pipe and jump off a big big cliff.

 

[Sig]

there is a way to be pretty sure. Buy a new pipe and jump off a big big cliff.

Or just make sure to buy a pipe every January 1st. You're gonna be right eventually.

 

[Servant King]

there is a way to be pretty sure. Buy a new pipe and jump off a big big cliff.

Hard to keep the pipe lit on the descent. Might need to buy a windcap too, especially if it'll bump you past the free shipping threshold.

Or just make sure to buy a pipe every January 1st. You're gonna be right eventually.

Spoken like a true PAD enabler. I approve!

 

[The Libertine]

there is a way to be pretty sure. Buy a new pipe and jump off a big big cliff.

If your friends jumped off a bridge..... I can hear my mother now.

 

[kcghost]

This is not a plan most of us would agree to but there's always that "one guy"!!

 

[sittingbear]

Warning: note that I did not say it was a practical alternative...

With all the hype around birth year pipes, I thought of something better: death year pipes. I know, it's tough to know in advance what year you're going to kick the bucket, but assuming you're either clairvoyant or suicidal (or both), you get your death year pipe early in the year, and depending on when during that calendar year you'll croak, you have X amount of time to enjoy it, knowing the end finally approacheth.

Just a more unorthodox take on the whole idea. Carry on.

And as George Carlin once said, these are some of the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools...

This is a great way to start one's own "pipe of the year" collection. The annual "I might die this year" pipe, later to be inducted into the "Yay! I didn't die! pipe" collection.

 

[BingBong]

Chances are, every unsmoked estate pipe is someone's death year pipe.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

We all died back in 2012 anyway.

Just pick up a 2012 Grabow and call it done.

 

[AcesAndEights]

Then the kids would fight over THE death year pipe

 

[bullet08]

A tattoo.

 

[anotherbob]

Or just make sure to buy a pipe every January 1st. You're gonna be right eventually.

just to be certain you better get it at 12:00 am that day.

 

[anotherbob]

If your friends jumped off a bridge..... I can hear my mother now.

all depends on the outcome. I mean some bridges are safe to jump from. Especially if you're about to get hit by a train

 

[anotherbob]

Hard to keep the pipe lit on the descent. Might need to buy a windcap too, especially if it'll bump you past the free shipping threshold.


Spoken like a true PAD enabler. I approve!

that's why you should also set yourself on fire. Who care about burn out then.

 

[Briarcutter]

And as George Carlin once said, these are some of the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools...

 

[Servant King]

I mean some bridges are safe to jump from.

And for those, there is this:

Especially if you're about to get hit by a train

And for them, there is this:

 

[anotherbob]

And for those, there is this:

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And for them, there is this:

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love to try either of those blends. I like night, I like trains, and I like some bridges.

 

[sardonicus87]

there is a way to be pretty sure. Buy a new pipe and jump off a big big cliff.

Even then it's no guarantee, no matter how determined you are, just ask Nicolas Chamfort...

 

[anotherbob]

Even then it's no guarantee, no matter how determined you are, just ask Nicolas Chamfort...

true. And not too get too political but that whole situation that lead to his arrest (according to wikipedia, yeah I had to use your link) is a good reminder that revolutions are usually messier then what we're told. The winner usually seems to forget about the other factions trying to be the new top dogs. Heck a lot of Americans think when we did it the whole thing was wrapped up in about two years or so instead of the actual amount of time it took.

 

[Choatecav]

Warning: note that I did not say it was a practical alternative...

With all the hype around birth year pipes, I thought of something better: death year pipes. I know, it's tough to know in advance what year you're going to kick the bucket, but assuming you're either clairvoyant or suicidal (or both), you get your death year pipe early in the year, and depending on when during that calendar year you'll croak, you have X amount of time to enjoy it, knowing the end finally approacheth.

Just a more unorthodox take on the whole idea. Carry on.

And as George Carlin once said, these are some of the thoughts that kept me out of the really good schools...

Man..... what a buzzkill.

I'll bet you were the kid back in school, that raised his hand one minute before the bell and said, "Miss Jones, are you going to give us a homework assignment for this weekend?"