Playskool Pipes
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Are we allowed to smoke those at school? Not that I wanna go back.
They’ve been out for awhile. I haven’t decided if I like them or not—it might be the rib at the end of the stem that bothers me—it looks like a condom and breaks up the line of the pipe. But, I do like the bright stems—they’re fun and playful.
Playskool? Those stems look like they are made of Play-Doh! 
That raised band on the stem makes them look like someone went crazy with their pipes and a box of multi-colored condoms.
I thought the same thing!
Well that can’t be unseen.
It's that bump at the end of the stem that really puts them into the Playskool realm. It looks like a safety feature.
Those colors would really pop if they had gone with their darker stains.
I'm having flashbacks of that John Ritter movie with the glow-in-the-dark condoms chase scene.
I just looked at current Playskool toys and man, what krap! I grew up with the Playskool toys when they were all wood that sometimes had brightly colored bits in plastic. The furniture in my Kindergarten was the same way. Clear finished wood, sparse use of bright, primary color plastics. It really set an aesthetic for me from early on.
My father was an an amateur woodworker of considerable aesthetic and craft skill, did lots of really nice things around the house and for friends. I love his style. He tried making chairs, but it wasn't working out to his satisfaction. So he eventually bought a set of Nakashima chairs direct form George Nakashima, who gave us a tour of his shop and wood shed. My father and Mr. Nakashima talked about wood for quite a while. I'm proud to have those chairs now.
He also made me this menorah, from the trunk of a pear tree that was in our backyard.
My father was an an amateur woodworker of considerable aesthetic and craft skill, did lots of really nice things around the house and for friends. I love his style. He tried making chairs, but it wasn't working out to his satisfaction. So he eventually bought a set of Nakashima chairs direct form George Nakashima, who gave us a tour of his shop and wood shed. My father and Mr. Nakashima talked about wood for quite a while. I'm proud to have those chairs now.
He also made me this menorah, from the trunk of a pear tree that was in our backyard.
I'm having flashbacks of that John Ritter movie with the glow-in-the-dark condoms chase scene.
There, now our "hey, that looks like something with a condom on it!" discussion has some balance.
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There, now our "hey, that looks like something with a condom on it!" discussion has some balance.
I was afraid there for a bit I was going to get called in by the PipesMagazine DEI officer! Thanks for being inclusive!View attachment 179234
There, now our "hey, that looks like something with a condom on it!" discussion has some balance.
good reference.
I don't like these pipes too much. I don't mind bright colors but these just look cheap to me. I know it's not true but I feel in my heart of heart like they should be in the 30 dollar range.
Or at least listed under the Family Planning category.