Kind of makes mowing the lawn seem pointless.
Will Meerschaum End one Day?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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Could you please post a link?
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.
I mow my lawn so the kids can play outside without getting ticks.
Also, to enjoy a cob while I mow.
Chickens make short work of those nasty things.
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.”
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).
I get only a month out of mine and that's with a 2 week lag time until I turn them inside out.