Why And Who?

[shanez]

Good thread!

I would give an honest guess that bents came about as a matter of pure artistic license and/or marketing. In layman's terms, just to be different.

In my personal experience/preference, bents are for lazy smokers like me. I'm not a clencher but I do often slouch in my chair while smoking and let my pipe rest on my chin/chest so I don't have to hold it. Eyes half open, smoking and daydreaming... With my Qandale I don't even have to slouch.

A true imponderable would be who the hell first looked at this and said, "yup, Imma eat that SOB":

 

[jpmcwjr]

Especially after boiling, when it turns red, the color of........... SATAN!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Think about it. Pipes came from Native American pipe designs. The "peace pipe" design was then translated into clay, to bring mass production to the Natives, and then Europe. The first clays came in both bent and short and straight. Bents giving distance between the bowl and the smoker, for guys who didn't want to smell like ashes.

Many of the straight pipes had a wooden reed as the stem.

So, by the time briar came about, we already had both bents and straights.

 

[saintpeter]

Which reminds me... Why does a computer freeze when it overheats?

or - if infants can have fun in their infancy why not adults in their adultery?

 

[crawdad]

Would Freud add that this is overcompensating?

 

[derhammer]

I think I read it here somewhere about straight pipes being a hassle while reading a book. Thus the bent.

 

[saintpeter]

I think I read it here somewhere about straight pipes being a hassle while reading a book. Thus the bent.

For some reason that actually makes sense.

 

[mikefu]

Would Freud add that this is overcompensating?

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Indubitably.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Would Freud add that this is overcompensating?

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I bet the draw on that thing is almost as wide open as an MM cob. Almost...

 

[Humblepipe]

Who invented liquid soap and... why?

 

[alaskanpiper]

Who invented liquid soap and... why?

My mother. So she could wash my mouth out without damaging my teeth.

 

[saintpeter]

Who invented liquid soap and... why?

Liquid soap was first patented by William Shepphard in 1865. The first commercial brand of liquid soap was developed and sold in 1898 by the B.J. Johnson Soap Company.


The product developed by the company was named "Palmolive." It became such a popular product that the Johnson Soap Company changed the company name to Palmolive as well. In 1980, Robert R. Taylor, a Minnesota entrepreneur, began to sell liquid soap to customers in a pump bottle. Taylor bought up the plastic pumps needed for liquid soap dispensers, which allowed his company, Minnetonka Corp., to corner the liquid soap market. In 1987, Minnetonka Corp. was purchased by Palmolive-Colgate.

 

[didimauw]

Or who thought an avacado would look tasty. Speaking of which, I Googled the ancient Aztec definition for Avacado. Changed my world forever.

 

[jaytex1969]

The second story is that male pipers tend to prefer the stem shape that most closely resembles the curvature of their member.

Dang it. Now I have to add a saggy nosewarmer to my PAD list...

 

[jpmcwjr]

Isn't it possible that some smoke a longer, fatter and straighter pipe to compensate?

 

[mikefu]

Isn't it possible that some smoke a longer, fatter and straighter pipe to compensate?

Or something like this?

 

[Chasing Embers]

A true imponderable would be who the hell first looked at this and said, "yup, Imma eat that SOB":

Take also into account that many of the lobsters hunted by early American colonists were as large as four feet long.

 

[mikefu]

Take also into account that many of the lobsters hunted by early American colonists were as large as four feet long.

 

[Spinkle]

Dang it. Now I have to add a saggy nosewarmer to my PAD list...

Group 6 here.