I know most find the p-lip attractive, but they cook the roof of my mouth. That and the PITA that cleaning a p-lip offers, I just grind them off and shape them into regular stem ends. But, I have the tools for doing this at my disposal.
I once got a meer in auction, and the thing was so clogged that I had to re-drill the draft. And, the tar that came out revealed that tobacco was not the substance smoked in that pipe. I scrubbed that baby cleaner than surgical instrument. I would have sent it back, but after tempting fate with having it revealed as paraphernalia in the US Mail once, I did not want to chance being arrested for mailing paraphernalia from my end.