Just goes to show how subjective a question like this is.
I've never liked those Yiannos pipes.
Funny story - Columbus Pipe Show, 2018 I think. Was doing a "one final lap" around the show room before leaving. One of the vendors (some older gentleman with a beard and fishing vest amirite) (jk sort of) said hello whilst my lady friend and I had stopped to look at a pipe on his table.
This horrific pipe was a rather large, long shanked number with random splotches of rustication and blue-green stain. In my mind I was thinking "what a nightmare".
The vendor (whose name I know not - wish I could remember precisely what he looked like) says, "If you can tell me the maker of that pipe, you can have it".
In my mind I was thinking "no thanks", but free is free right?
Just so happens a couple months prior I had begun following a pipe maker who often showed such monstrosities. I blurted out, "That guy from Greece, Yiannos Kookynose?"
The look on the vendors face was priceless. He quickly backtracked and stammered his way into muttering something like "so I'll give it to you at a 50% discount".
I was so taken aback by his blatant lie that I just said "no thanks", grabbed my girls hand, and walked away.
