Exactly. I was enjoying a bowl at a Caribbean resort, when one of the locals working on staff struck up a conversation and mentioned that he'd never seen someone smoke a pipe outside of black and white films. I've gotten that kind of reaction before, too, like I'd gone whizzing by on a velocipede on the way to the diatomist. As you say, it's the pipe smoking not the type of pipe that draws attention.Public pipe smoking today is such an oddity, I suspect few people under age 65 have any opinion about the dressiness or otherwise of various kinds of pipe. Any pipe smoking tends to attract a gawk. Some people are kind of fascinated.
A cob will ghost, but much of that ghost goes away if you let it sit for a long while, especially if you sit it in the sun. As the corn cob pipe primer says, the big advantage of cobs is that they are so absorbent and they breath.I think cobs are more forgiving in terms of ghosting, so I wouldn't dedicate them to a particular blend.
Yeah...I feel you there, but I try not to worry too much about it. I grow a beard, because I want one. I was was wearing flannel shirts with jeans and boots in high school before "hipsters" claimed it for their own look. I've been accused of being a hipster on more times than I can count, just because I was already this way. Funny how that works. I was actually accused (one time in downtown Raleigh) of being a "Lumber Sexual". Now I don't even know what in the hell that is, but I don't want to know. I mean....Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot? Who does that? Comes up with these labels for people...So, I have just decided I hate labels.They see them as antiquated props and you as either a country bumpkin, or far worse, a weiner hipster.
Always good advice. If I worried about people everywhere perceiving me as this or that all the time, I'd never feel comfortable going out in public. Let them worry about worrying about how you look and smoke your cob, dress how YOU like, do things YOU like, just do you. You're truly the only person that has to live with yourself, so do what makes your ass happy!Quit worrying how others see you or your pipe. Having less to worry about is always good.
I'm old enough to have smoked Mexican pot in the '70's. At that time cobs were the thing. Not so much now I think, although I wouldn't know for sure. Maybe it's a carryover.Autumnfog, I think I know why corncobs might have a rep as marijuana pipes: cheap Chinese-made ones are available on eBay