So now I have a Bulldog

[anotherbob]

The dereg of pot and the reg of tobacco are contradictory in the extreme.

The extraordinary number of young men jailed on penny-anny drug charges is much the same. We know that it achieves nothing yet we have jailed a wide swath of that population whose crime is, more than anything else, being young and black.

sad to say but you are correct. And funny fact best way to keep people off things is to be honest about what they do. Funny fact cigarette smoking is way down yet the things you can go to jail for use is up. Funny how things can be right out in the open and not seen.

 

[gamzultovah]

An 80S is a great way to fall off the Bulldog Bandwagon!

Be careful smoking that Bulldog in the Commons in Ithaca....I almost picked up a ticket there walking around there one warm summer evening. A benevolent policman had pity on me. Head shops to the left and right, but no smoking in the public area (even outside!) College towns...I guess.

Do all the cars in Ithaca wear diapers?

 

[gamzultovah]

The Celtic Cross makes me think a commemorative of some sort. Where I you, I'd want to know. Send a pic or good description to Peterson. I think their reply will be quick and informative. It's a gorgeous pipe! Wonderful find!

IBTL if anyone bites on the waaaaay off topic above.

Tempting ???

 

[ssjones]

Do all the cars in Ithaca wear diapers?

OK, I give? (or: Huh?)

 

[gamzultovah]

OK, I give? (or: Huh?)

My point being if smoking from a pipe is a no-no, what about all the smoke coming from the cars? I just find it hypocritical and shortsighted that a person can’t burn a small amount of dried leaves in a pipe, but can burn a large amount of fuel In a vehicle. The law just galls me.

 

[ssjones]

My point being if smoking from a pipe is a no-no, what about all the smoke coming from the cars? I just find it hypocritical and shortsighted that a person can’t burn a small amount of dried leaves in a pipe, but can burn a large amount of fuel In a vehicle. The law just galls me.

Ah, gotcha! Yes, it's pretty silly and the policeman admitted as such, but they were directed to enforce the "no smoking" rule in the outdoor mall area (The Commons).

 

[saltedplug]

Fossil fuels and natural gas have earned corporations billions and billions (trillions?) of dollars. Such astronomical earnings confer enormous political power. What's good for the planet has been completely overrun by the highly effective pursuit of greed.

When the Indians saw the barbarian hordes disembarking from their ships, they should have, to a man, tucked their heads between their legs and committed reverse seppuku.

The West is a highly destructive and savage culture.

 

[gamzultovah]

IBTL…

 

[gamzultovah]

The West is a highly destructive and savage culture.

Really? Please tell us more…

 

[warren]

You do understand that windmills, atomic energy etc. industries are all pretty much controlled by the same companies involved in fossil fuels and gas. Same folks. Those folks understand what the future bodes and are well positioned to keep their shareholders happy.

The West is no more destructive that eastern cultures.

Still, amazingly so, in before the lock. Poor saltedplug can't follow the rules. So, so long salted until you are allowed to return again.

 

[lestrout]

Yo GD - beauty! And with a story to boot. Was the pipe (literally: if that cigar store had had just one more pipe, it would have been a pipeS store - lol) store in College Town? Decades ago, there was a quaint store that sold things like newspapers from foreign lands, but more importantly occasionally stocked Nightcap once in awhile. My folks lived in centrally isolated Ithaca for 43 years and that store was the only tobacconist in the whole county, maybe several counties. In the 60s professors and students could and did puff pipes, right there in the classroom. But as the years wore on and pipe usage declined, the stock in that store diminished and essentially died out. Kind of like the Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland.

hp
les

 

[kcghost]

Always good to rescue the last pipe in the shop and take it to a good home!!

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

A few days ago I snatched up this beauty the moment I saw it:

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I love Bulldogs and I love Stack shape bowls, the only thing that could make it better is if it were 50mm longer.
The price was much lower than I've seen for any comparable pipe from Caminetto so I figured it would be best to snipe it.

 

[SBC]

The dereg of pot and the reg of tobacco are contradictory in the extreme.

The primary argument that tobacco is wholesome is that the pot-pushing zeitgeist villifies it.

 

[saltedplug]

You misjudge me, I'm not saying that it's wholesome,
but that if choose to go about my business with either a cigar or a pipe in my mouth it is not the business of any regulatory body to interfere with it.

 

[saltedplug]

The primary argument that tobacco is wholesome is that the pot-pushing zeitgeist villifies it.

Now I understand, the "pot-pushing zeitgeist" vilifies tobacco, thinking they understand it, though the hole in their stocking shows that they don't. Very accurately put.

 

[SBC]

Now I understand, the "pot-pushing zeitgeist" vilifies tobacco, thinking they understand it, though the hole in their stocking shows that they don't. Very accurately put.

I wasn't clear -- forgive me!

What I meant is that pot pushers' value judgements about which plants to smoke is worth about as much as Herod's value judgements about which citizens to execute.

Since wholesome evaluations villify the villanous, and unwholesome evaluations villify the wholesome, I take it as a sign of tobacco's wholesomeness that pot pushers villify it.

If the spirit of this upside-down age was in favor of tobacco, I'd have to second-guess my love of it.
But since the spirit of this upside-down age is weirdly concerned to villify tobacco -- while in its tailspin of various debaucheries -- I feel that my love of tobacco puts me on the right side of things.

 

[gamzultovah]

I wasn't clear -- forgive me!

What I meant is that pot pushers' value judgements about which plants to smoke is worth about as much as Herod's value judgements about which citizens to execute.

Since wholesome evaluations villify the villanous, and unwholesome evaluations villify the wholesome, I take it as a sign of tobacco's wholesomeness that pot pushers villify it.

If the spirit of this upside-down age was in favor of tobacco, I'd have to second-guess my love of it.
But since the spirit of this upside-down age is weirdly concerned to villify tobacco -- while in its tailspin of various debaucheries -- I feel that my love of tobacco puts me on the right side of things.

Amen.