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Re: Shits & Giggles (Jokes)
@vtgrad2003
It took me maybe 30 seconds. I had seen a phrase that was similar, the phase was somewhat nonsensical/convoluted, and you were instructed to pick out how many “i”s were in the phrase. Most people waste their “brain power” trying to decipher the spangly worded phrase. It contained several “it”s. Most people with good reading skills just skip over the small words (such as “the” and “it” etc.) that are not that important and miss a few “i”s…or the extra “the” in this case. Usually children, or someone just learning to read will catch them right away. The first time I saw the “it” phrase, it took me several minutes, then I had to be “let in on the secret”. Weird huh?
It took me maybe 30 seconds. I had seen a phrase that was similar, the phase was somewhat nonsensical/convoluted, and you were instructed to pick out how many “i”s were in the phrase. Most people waste their “brain power” trying to decipher the spangly worded phrase. It contained several “it”s. Most people with good reading skills just skip over the small words (such as “the” and “it” etc.) that are not that important and miss a few “i”s…or the extra “the” in this case. Usually children, or someone just learning to read will catch them right away. The first time I saw the “it” phrase, it took me several minutes, then I had to be “let in on the secret”. Weird huh?
Yes, that is the same stem...Re: Pipe refinishing
Another pipe. This one is stamped, "EVERYMAN".?. I couldn't make it out until after I cleaned it...
KA9FFJ
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Re: Do you remember these?
Creeks, drainage ditches (some of the ditches alongside the train tracks were 10 - 15 foot deep) Texas size mud puddles and what we called sand pits (others called them borrow pits because they were dug to build the overpasses on the interstate.)
PappyJoe
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Re: What are you guys smoking right Now?
At the New Orleans Pipe Club meeting. Popped open a tin of Edward G. Robinson from 2016. As a thank you for meeting at the pipe shop, the manager gifted the club with a bottle of Bulleit bourbon. Photos later.
PappyJoe
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Re: What to light a pipe with
@RockyMountainBriar Yes my honest is still working.
If you still have a spark from the piezo electric module, try checking / cleaning the area around the gas nozzle.
When carbon and soot get deposited over time, resistance builds and the spark will move to another location with less resistance, usually its not an optimal ignition point.
It could also be that the insulated wire has drifted and needs to be adjusted.
Of course at the price point the easiest fix it to order another one; I consider all my cheaper pipe lighters to be disposable but I do fix the ones I like and I save old ones for parts LOL. (cheap bastard)
mapletop
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Re: Lord of theRings
<<When Hobbits first began to smoke is not known, all the legends and family histories take it for granted; for ages folk in the Shire smoked various herbs, some fouler, some sweeter. But all accounts agree that Tobold Hornblower of Longbottom in the Southfarthing first grew the true pipe-weed in his gardens in the days of Isengrim the Second, about the year 1070 of Shire-reckoning. The best home-grown still comes from that district, especially the varieties now known as Longbottom Leaf, Old Toby, and Southern Star. >>
Montecristo
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Re: The World We Live In
@Londy3
Good post, but I'm going to take the liberty of rephrasing that:
"We live in a time where smart people are being silenced so intelligent people don't get offended"
To me, being "smart" is the skill of using common sense, being "intelligent" is book smarts and therefore pertains mostly to the "woke" class. I know a ton of intelligent people that are dumber than a box of rocks because they've never lived a single day off of a school campus--they graduated high school and went straight to college, got their under graduate degree and went straight to grad school, got their PhD and now they're professors...but have zero idea of what "real life" is all about because they've never 'left' their bubble of academia.
I would much rather be smart than intelligent if I had to decide between the two.
Good post, but I'm going to take the liberty of rephrasing that:
"We live in a time where smart people are being silenced so intelligent people don't get offended"
To me, being "smart" is the skill of using common sense, being "intelligent" is book smarts and therefore pertains mostly to the "woke" class. I know a ton of intelligent people that are dumber than a box of rocks because they've never lived a single day off of a school campus--they graduated high school and went straight to college, got their under graduate degree and went straight to grad school, got their PhD and now they're professors...but have zero idea of what "real life" is all about because they've never 'left' their bubble of academia.
I would much rather be smart than intelligent if I had to decide between the two.
vtgrad2003
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Re: Pipe refinishing
After several stages of sanding ( you know the drill) I had the stem ready to polish and buff...
KA9FFJ
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