Will Meerschaum End one Day?

[futureman]

At some point EVERYTHING will die out. The sun will go nova, the earth will vaporize, and that will be that…

Kind of makes mowing the lawn seem pointless.

 

[Sharp_tungsten]

Kind of makes mowing the lawn seem pointless.

It actually is pointless to mow your lawn other than aesthetician guilt society has cast upon lawns. Up until the 1910's lawns typically weren't mowed other than special places and golf courses.

 

[Sharp_tungsten]

Technically our star, the sun is a yellow dwarf which doesn't have the mass to ever go nova or supernova that is. But it will vaporize the earth one day during out stars death when it's corona expands as our sun becomes a red giant. But by all estimates it appears we have another 4 to 6 billion years till the jig is up.

 

[trouttimes]

If they want to save the meerschaum industry, they just need to convince pot smokers that their pipes are better than sliced bread. Business would explode.

 

[Sharp_tungsten]

If they want to save the meerschaum industry, they just need to convince pot smokers that their pipes are better than sliced bread. Business would explode.

The hippies would burn through the known meerschaum deposits in a few months though? They change pipes like underwear.

 

[trouttimes]

The hippies would burn through the known meerschaum deposits in a few months though? They change pipes like underwear.

You mean once every two months?

 

[craig61a]

The hippies would burn through the known meerschaum deposits in a few months though? They change pipes like underwear.

Hippies wear underwear?

 

[verporchting]

Hippies wear underwear?

Depends

 

[futureman]

Technically our star, the sun is a yellow dwarf which doesn't have the mass to ever go nova or supernova that is. But it will vaporize the earth one day during out stars death when it's corona expands as our sun becomes a red giant. But by all estimates it appears we have another 4 to 6 billion years till the jig is up.

Reminds me of this clip from Annie Hall.

 

[anotherbob]

You're forgetting the time and cost of the excavation and convincing the children of the carvers who are growing up in an anti-tobacco world to take up a dying craft.

kind of reminds me though of another thing. I've known people who collect meer and don't smoke. Some quit some never smoked. Kind of reminds me of other people I know who have great snuff bottle collections. Really some beautiful pieces. Meer might survive as a historical/art piece more so then briar.

 

[mingc]

Depends

Old hippies.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I'm guessing machinist? I see the safety spectacles...

Head of Special Projects. Mainly in charge of efficiency studies, machine planning, and ergonomics improvements.

 

[kcghost]

"All good things a repast and gone......"

 

[jpmcwjr]

I just read another article about the American Meerschaum company in New Mexico. Lots of Meerschaum and a climate similar to turkey...

Could you please post a link?

That's the real problem sir. If this was the 20s all over again American ingenuity, our insatiable appetite for tobacco and elbow grease would have already gave them turks a run for their money with Arizona Meerschaum.

It was in the 20's when the mine was open. We never had carvers to make a go with pipes, and not enough volume needed for other uses as well.

 

[aspiring_sage]

It actually is pointless to mow your lawn other than aesthetician guilt society has cast upon lawns. Up until the 1910's lawns typically weren't mowed other than special places and golf courses.

I mow my lawn so the kids can play outside without getting ticks.
Also, to enjoy a cob while I mow.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I mow my lawn so the kids can play outside without getting ticks.

Chickens make short work of those nasty things.

 

[brian64]

As I was looking it up, I ran across a fine article on meerschaum by James Foster.
I read half of it, and will finish it later. Here it is:
LINK to PM article

I see that even as far back as 1908 the New York Times was printing nonsense:

“The briar pipe is for smokers. It is made to be filled with tobacco and smoked. The meerschaum is an investment, an object of vertu, a subject of hourly perplexity. To treat one properly a high order of intelligence is required, together with complete freedom from defects of the artistic temperament, inexhaustible patience, and the philosopher’s mind.”

 

[anotherbob]

Chickens make short work of those nasty things.

opossums too. Which I don't think you can buy them but credit where credit is due. I knew there was something great about those guys, besides being pugly (ugly yet cute as heck like a pug).

 

[Sharp_tungsten]

You mean once every two months?

I get only a month out of mine and that's with a 2 week lag time until I turn them inside out.

 

[verporchting]

Now I’ve got visions of hippies wearing Depends mowing fields of “grass” surrounded by children, chickens and possums, all smoking corncob pipes.

What was the original topic again? ?