Piping Pet Peeves

[rushx9]

Lowering pipe smoking to piping or a pipe smoker to piper. One is a cake decoration and the other is a woodwind musician.

How would you feel about a tobacco piping flautist that likes to pipe cakes with a caked pipe after giving his lady a good piping??

 

[logs]

All the wizardy hobbity Gandalf shit

 

[olkofri]

Tongue burn. Pipe not staying lit. Having to dry the tobacco.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Chicken or the egg?!

?

Both!

 

[olkofri]

All the wizardy hobbity Gandalf shit

It's gotten a bit too overboard, innit? Like, you can't whip out a churchwarden without people thinking 'hobbit', even though those pipes have been around since the 1600s and were once an emblem of the Hussars (of course, how many of the ones thinking 'hobbit' even know what a Hussar is, but anyway grmph...)

 

[Chasing Embers]

How would you feel about a tobacco piping flautist that likes to pipe cakes with a caked pipe after giving his lady a good piping??

Let's see. Old enough to say no to the wife , I like cakes, and have no idea what a flautist is.

 

[olkofri]

...have no idea what a flautist is.

A bloke who plays this:

 

[weezell]

I like cakes, and have no idea what a flautist is.

A person who farts in tune!...

 

[BROBS]

Playing the skin flaut to tuna town?

 

[Sonorisis]

Flake pipes.

 

[augiebd]

That I don’t know how to pronounce Latakia.

 

[olkofri]

That I don’t know how to pronounce Latakia.

lah-TAH-keah

 

[rushx9]

All the wizardy hobbity Gandalf shit

While I tend to agree, I also try to just lump all that kitsch together with things like CB/1Q and various other necessary evils that keep the industry alive... as a side note, a friend let me try a few of the Country Squire's Middle Earth series blends and they were all top quality leaf! Apparently that stuff outsells most everything we talk up on this forum. Felt kinda weird smoking something called "Bag End"?

 

[augiebd]

lah-TAH-keah

Thank you, I should have asked this question a long time ago.

 

[rushx9]

That I don’t know how to pronounce Latakia.

I say ladda-keeya.. I think you're okay as long as you don't say la-TOCK-eeya!

 

[olkofri]

Well, there's this: Latakia pronunciation

Me, I don't wanna sound even remotely Arabic, and it drives me up a wall when the T's are swallowed so lah-TAH-keah it remains.

 

[rushx9]

Well, there's this: Latakia pronunciation

Me, I don't wanna sound even remotely Arabic, and it drives me up a wall when the T's are swallowed so lah-TAH-keah it remains.

I've heard that the t is pronounced like a d because in antiquity the place was called Laodicea. I've seen convincing arguments for the pronunciation lad•di•kia, but I have trouble making myself pronounce an a like ee.

 

[B.Fee]

hard to have pet peeve when i'm smoking by myself.

??

 

[olkofri]

I've heard that the t is pronounced like a d because in antiquity the place was called Laodicea. I've seen convincing arguments for the pronunciation lad•di•kia, but I have trouble making myself pronounce an a like ee.

Yup, it was Laodicea, which would be pronounced lao-dee-KEH-eah (as is Laotian); in both Green and Latin the C is pronounced like a K (the ch-ch-che-chi is a Mediaeval/post-Mediaeval development, which also drives me up a wall).

The swallowing of the T is an American English issue, though. I just find it grating. When I hear people say Toronoh I have to exert great restraint to keep me from trouting them whilst I yell repeatedly 'ToronTo!!! '

 

[snagstangl]

Threads that ask "What is the history of pipe shape x?" Most dont have a history, other than Saint Claude has been making them for a long time!