College Smoking

[cosmicfolklore]

Funny story...but I remember when you purchased your doctorate from a spam post here on the forum.

Nothing to be ashamed of though, since it got you that cushy 6 figure Google Fact-Checker job.

That wasn't the doctorate, it was the license to practice medicine. But, they revoked it when I ignored a stop sign during a gynecological exam.

 

[verporchting]

Mine was powered by gallons and gallons of coffee and Camel Lights by the crate.
When asked, I like to convey that the dissertation process is like being flogged with wet noodles on a 100 mile long walk of shame while having to drag a pink feather boa.

Cosmic, did we attend the same university??? ?

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I think you’re way to the right of the road.

In my world, I map and build the roads. I'm right down the middle,. You're in the ditch.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Mine was powered by gallons and gallons of coffee and Camel Lights by the crate.
When asked, I like to convey that the dissertation process is like being flogged with wet noodles on a 100 mile long walk of shame while having to drag a pink feather boa.

Damn, where did you go, Rocky Horror University?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Damn, where did you go, Rocky Horror University?

Ha, no. It's not meant to be literal. It didn't have to be a pink one.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Ha, no. It's not meant to be literal. It didn't have to be a pink one.

Thank goodness, it was starting to sound like a science fiction double feature in here.?

 

[verporchting]

I enjoyed a pipe throughout college although I never encountered a single other pipe smoker.

There was one fellow who was interested so I gave him a copy of Weber’s book, a pipe tool and some decent leaf to smoke in a pipe he was going to buy. Never learned if he took it up or not.

Otherwise it was coffee, booze and books to get the doctorate degree. And lots and lots of stress and poor diet. Meh, it worked.

 

[mso489]

I didn't smoke a pipe in college because I didn't want to look like I was imitating my professors, although the smoking faculty mostly smoked cigarettes. I think one economics professor had two going at once, while sipping coffee.

 

[musicman]

Mine was powered by gallons and gallons of coffee and Camel Lights by the crate.
When asked, I like to convey that the dissertation process is like being flogged with wet noodles on a 100 mile long walk of shame while having to drag a pink feather boa.

God, ain't that the truth. I feel like grad school is the very definition of a Pyrrhic Victory. I won (got the degree) but a small part of me was destroyed in the process.

I always liked a fellow students description of doctoral oral exams: "So, basically, your committee will spend three hours taking turns punching you in the nuts."

 

[briarbuck]

Mine was powered by gallons and gallons of coffee and Camel Lights by the crate.
When asked, I like to convey that the dissertation process is like being flogged with wet noodles on a 100 mile long walk of shame while having to drag a pink feather boa.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Also ignorance, so there’s that. Guess it goes with both.

Sure does. My studies and smoking are an ongoing crawl from ignorance towards humility.

I agree with what has been said so far about the dissertation process. Honestly my gonads hurt less following a vasectomy than they currently do.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

God, ain't that the truth. I feel like grad school is the very definition of a Pyrrhic Victory. I won (got the degree) but a small part of me was destroyed in the process.

I always liked a fellow students description of doctoral oral exams: "So, basically, your committee will spend three hours taking turns punching you in the nuts."

My committee had a decrepit Spanish Princess, an 80 year old pervert, a Greek man that I could never understand who spent all day making foot stools in his office, a couple of professional assholes, and a woman who published books about why no one liked her hairy pussy... I kid you not, ha ha.

 

[Trainpipeman]

Welcome to the forum, Frogdonovan!

I think that your project would make for some interesting reading!

 

[BROBS]

My committee had a decrepit Spanish Princess, an 80 year old pervert, a Greek man that I could never understand who spent all day making foot stools in his office, a couple of professional assholes, and a woman who published books about why no one liked her hairy pussy... I kid you not, ha ha.

Amazon link?

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Amazon link?

It’s not that sort of book, or did you mean mine?

 

[brian64]

It’s not that sort of book, or did you mean mine?

You wrote a book about why no one likes your hairy pussy?

 

[Suilven]

Welcome frogdonovan. If that's your actual name, is it Frog Donovan or Donovan Frog? If the latter, shall we call you Don Frog?

I'm a fairly new pipesmoker. Your proposed ethnographic study sounds interesting and worthwhile; however, i don't know whether I'll be of any use to you, having been raised in the BC rainforest by Coastal Wolves after having been kicked off a small boat onto a beach by my family at the age of two. Apparently they thought the wolves might enjoy me more than they were.

Have fun with the forums. Many interesting folks and much helpful info and perspective here...with a good dose of laughs along the way...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

You wrote a book about why no one likes your hairy pussy?

I just titled it, My Fuzzy Fetid Feline.

 

[briarbuck]

Amazon link?

 

[frogdonovan]

Frog', are you working on a BFA or an MFA? Forums provides for doing polls, though you want to be skillful about using these sparingly, or people will get tired of being research subjects. Welcome from central North Carolina, or "hey," as we say here.

Hey, mso. I'm working on a BFA, currently, so the project is nothing super formal. It's for a pretty low level class. Thanks for the advice, though. I think I'll make a separate thread with a couple specific questions and then maybe look through some information heavy threads that give a good idea of traditions of the art, so to speak.