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| Ämne: | Smoke rings |
| Skrivet av: | Kjell |
| Tid: | 2006-02-17 09:07:41 |
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Googlade lite och hittade det här på en sajt från Fuji. Det är piprökning som behandlas, men det finns beröringspunkter... "Top Ten Stupid Hobbies you can do While Smoking" 10. PIPE DATING By this, I do not mean taking your pipe out for dinner and a movie, although that might be diverting and your pipes probably are feeling a bit neglected lately. No, I mean that you probably could find out when your pipe was actually made (within a few years, at least). If you have Dunhill or Ashton pipes, this task is made simpler (but not trivial) by the stamping on the pipe. For Ashton pipes, just add 1980 to the number after "Made in England." For Dunhills, whole books could be (and are being) written to enable the enterprising to crack the code. Even if you have no Dunhills or Ashtons, you can probably date your pipes by doing a bit of research concerning the stamping, style, materials used, etc. This may involve looking your brand up in books, leafing through old pipe magazines, and doing other individual research. Probably more fun, and rewarding, would be writing to collectors. Use the OoOPS Directory, Pipes Digest, The Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris, and alt.smokers.pipes newsgroup to identify people who might be willing and able to help. Stop by the local tobacconist when he or she is not busy, and take the pipe in question with you. You might also try writing to the importer or manufacturer, if they are still around. Most people in the pipe business will be glad to assist courteous and polite inquiries of this type, as will most collectors. OK, this one may not be "stupid," but it could be fun, and it certainly won't cost as much as a new Castello. 9. PIPE MEASURING Just how deep is that bowl? How thick are the walls? How long is the stem? With a ruler (or calipers, for the really anal- retentive) you might actually discover some useful facts, like how thick a bit can be before it feels uncomfortable in your mouth. You see, by knowing your pipes, you know yourself! What could be better than self revelation through pipe smoking? 8. PIPE WEIGHING If you have a postal scale lying around, why not see just how heavy your pipes are? You can even pull that old Walter Raleigh stunt and weigh your smoke. If you never heard the story, Raleigh weighed the tobacco he put into his pipe, smoked the pipe, and then weighed the ash. He posited that the difference was the weight of the smoke! Such audacity need not be relegated to the 17th century. Just weigh your filled pipe, and weigh the ash and pipe when you are done smoking. A historical re- enactment! You might even get a government grant for it! 7. PIPE CLEANING Cleaning one pipe while smoking another may not be the most fun in the world, but anything I can say to get you to keep your pipes clean is my public duty. You'll thank me for it someday. Why not see how many pipe cleaners you can use up while cleaning a single pipe? Figure out whether your pipes get dirtier with different kinds of tobacco, or whether they need different amounts of cleaning depending on the time of day you smoke them. Don't forget to clean the "gunk trap" in the mortise! 6. PIPE COUNTING If you are like me, you lost track of how many pipes you have sometime ago. So, start cataloging those babies. How many do you have of each size, brand, shape, finish, color, stem type, etc.? Which pipes have you not smoked in a while? This might actually help you cull your collection, assuming you are the type of person who would actually contemplate such a thing. You might turn into one of those people who actually has a catalog of your pipes on his or her computer. This will give you a nice feeling of self-satisfaction, which is especially good since the rest of us will resent you for being so organized. 5. PIPE SMOKING CONTESTS You can practice for the real thing any time. Just see how long you can keep your pipe going on a single light. Compete against yourself and someday you might win a pipe-smoking contest at a pipe show. You can even, like the Olympics, stage your own personal exhibition sports such as "most smoke rings blown from a single bowl of tobacco," or "most non-smoking tasks performed while smoking." The possibilities are limited only by your imagination and your supply of gold medals to award yourself. 4. SMOKE RING COLLECTING Since I mentioned smoke rings, why not cultivate the ability to create these Olympic symbols? Determine whether the ability to create rings is dependent on the type of tobacco smoked, or the pipe you are smoking. Try to make patterns of rings, or concentric rings. Try to blow heart-shaped rings, or rings resembling letters. Blow rings around objects in the room. Try to photograph the rings as they enrobe your family pets or loved ones in an ethereal azure frame. Smoke ring blowing is a time-honored art. Sounds like another government grant proposal to me! 3. CHAR BUILDING See just how thick you can get that legendary cake in your pipes. See if it depends on the type of tobacco used. See if it really does develop faster if you smear honey on the inside of the pipe. As with most sports, there is a level that many of us are not prepared to attain, a barrier many of us are not prepared to breech. Read further only if you are the stalwart type that IS prepared to risk all to attain the ULTIMATE. The rest of us weenies will look on in awe, admiration, and dread. What I am about to suggest should not be attempted before first consulting a physician. Don't try this at home, kids. This is only for those professional drivers on closed tracks that you read about on car ads... See if your pipe really does crack if you don't ream out the cake. OK, it's dangerous, but Man's thirst for knowledge must be slaked. Sacrifices must be made for the greater good. 2. BIRD'S-EYE COUNTING Pipe smoking is conducive to meditation and contemplation. So, next time you are smoking, contemplate your pipe. Study its details. Be one with the pipe. An easy way to do this is to focus on a particular aspect of the pipe, such as the number of grain strands that can be identified on the bowl, or the number of bird's-eyes that the pipe has. Be careful not to do this while reclining in bed with a lit pipe, as counting bird's-eyes may be as soporific as reading this. 1. ASH COLLECTING Last month's BS contained helpful hints involving the use of ash. Well, to say that you might actually use the ashes you save for something useful is to defeat the very object of ash collecting. See how much ash you can accumulate. Ash is one of the certain by-products of smoking, and so you will always be able to add to your collection at any time, and it won't cost a cent. Soon, you'll find yourself lighting up just to add to your ash collection. Perhaps the activity of adding to your ash collection will take your mind off of the impulse to acquire additional pipes, which are almost always more expensive than ashes. On the other hand, whenever you feel the desire to add a pipe to your collection, your mind will reel at the prospect of all of those additional ashes it will produce. How can you refuse the opportunity to enlarge your ash collection so quickly and easily? Yes, yes, buy the pipe!!! |
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| N Smoke rings | 08:18 den 17 februari 2006 | Kjell |
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