Pipes with names? Do you name yours?

[pipeinhand]

@logandow, do the voices tell you to do things? I hate it when the voices tell me to do things.

 

[sherlock]

No, but I could see having a nick name for a pipe that you are particularly found of. I don't know why everyone has go to the druggie card every time something is a little out of the ordinary. People name all sorts of things cars, boats, machines; why not a pipe? Why is this something a druggie would do? There's an old saying;

If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

There is no reason to make comments like this other than to make people feel stupid and this takes away from the community of the forum.

 

[hobie1dog]

Nope, not me.

 

[deyro]

No, but I could see having a nick name for a pipe that you are particularly found of. I don't know why everyone has go to the druggie card every time something is a little out of the ordinary. People name all sorts of things cars, boats, machines; why not a pipe? Why is this something a druggie would do?

Spot on. Exactly the point I was going to make. I haven't named any pipes, but in high school I did have a faded red VW with a bad muffler I called Pink Thunder. As far as the druggie thing, I've known a few of them in my day, but unless "bent Ranier can" qualifies as a name, I never knew one of them to name anything the smoked out of.

 

[olderthandirt]

...I don't know why everyone has go to the druggie card every time something is a little out of the ordinary. ...There is no reason to make comments like this other than to make people feel stupid and this takes away from the community of the forum.

Thank you for making this point in such a level, clear manner sherlock!
I believe I will now go get Ol' Fuzzy and have a chat and a smoke with it (-;

 

[nwgibson85]

I simply call them by their maker's name. I have Jobey, Orizzante' (ori for short), and Dr. Grabow (Dr.)
I think naming them can mean as much to one person as it means as little to another. I have always named my fishing rods, and most of my friends call that ODD. My grandfather passed down 150 rods to his sons and grandsons, and he had a name for every one. Again only weird if you did not grow up with it.

 

[pentangle]

Strange question,I can't imagine to give a name to a pipe 8O

no i don't

Maurizio

 

[hanymamdouh]

great idea, i think each pipe has its own personality, it can be givin a name. like the idea too much

 

[winton]

My truck does not have a name, and I spend far more time with it than any of my pipes. Also since I am a woodworker, I think of the pipes as a chunk of wood that has been crafted into something useful and decorative.
Winton

 

[rigmedic1]

This thread caused me to remember that I did name one of my pipes, a very old and seldom used Wally Frank "the Garrick" pipe. I believe it was made before WWII, and I keep it in a velvet sock. I call it my "Billy Birou", after Ted Knight's favored golf club in Caddyshack. It's small, about a Dunhill 2, but has excellent smoking characteristics.

I am puffing some House of Calabash "Nothing like that Fisrt Pipe of the Day" in it now. Delicious!

 

[hobojoe]

Pipes are like Grandchildren. Each one has it's own qualities.

And I still can't remember there names ( pipes or kids).

So it's My pipe or "Hey kid" yea you.

Joe2shoes

 

[frtimmyd]

I've only got one pipe that is named. It was my first "real pipe". An Aldo Velani Contrast that my kids named the "Santa Claus pipe" because it came as a gift from Santa.