The “5000 year” thread reminded me of a news report about the fellow who gained fame for not having bathed for 60+ years….. he was recently in the news again because he finally acquiesced and bathed…. and then passed away relatively shortly thereafter.
I bring up this news account because one of the things mentioned in the article was that he regularly smoked animal dung. I had heard of this a few times over the years and it was even mentioned in an episode of M*A*S*H where Hunnicut gave pipe tobacco to a fellow and told him he would like it more than the dung he was smoking. I had always assumed the “dung” smoking adage was just a legend or a way to disparage really bad tobacco. But, it apparently is a real thing. If it works, I am going to attach a photo of the fellow who didn’t bathe here, showing him smoking his pipe filled with actual dried dung. I thought it might be an interesting image/thread…. though I guarantee, I will be sticking to only pipe tobacco myself.
I bring up this news account because one of the things mentioned in the article was that he regularly smoked animal dung. I had heard of this a few times over the years and it was even mentioned in an episode of M*A*S*H where Hunnicut gave pipe tobacco to a fellow and told him he would like it more than the dung he was smoking. I had always assumed the “dung” smoking adage was just a legend or a way to disparage really bad tobacco. But, it apparently is a real thing. If it works, I am going to attach a photo of the fellow who didn’t bathe here, showing him smoking his pipe filled with actual dried dung. I thought it might be an interesting image/thread…. though I guarantee, I will be sticking to only pipe tobacco myself.