What is the biggest myth about pipe smoking that you have ever heard?

opipeman

I'll kick the discussion off. "Only expensive pipes can give a cool relaxing smoke."

KA9FFJ

Smoking a pipe is just as detrimental to your health as cigarettes...

opipeman

@KA9FFJ;
I have heard that as well, brother. I have had to educate a couple of doctors, at least I hope. Amazingly, my primary doctor agreed with me.

RockyMountainBriar

I think you might have to add that pipes are less detrimental as long as the smoke is not inhaled?  Although, it seems cigarettes reportedly have more “additives” of some sort too.

Londy3

Generally, smoking will kill you. 

RockyMountainBriar

Life will kill you, you might as well live it

Londy3

@RockyMountainBriar agreed.  Life is a pretty scary proposition so may as well live it good because no one is getting out of here alive. 

thebadgerpiper

That pipe smoking is pretentious. Pipe smoking couldn't be further from the truth. 

motie2

“It’s easier to cut out a tongue than a lung.......”

pipeman83

Only old men smoke pipes, I must be old then because I started when I was 21

opipeman

@pipeman83;
I started at about 21 as well. Now I am an old man!

motie2

@opipeman

And thou art how many years old? How old must one be to be an old man? Just askin’......

opipeman

@motie2;
I suppose it varies from man to man, but in my case its 76.

motie2

@opipeman

Yup, I’m an old man. Just wanted to check.....

pipeman83

I’m only 59!

opipeman

@motie2;
Toby Keith was playing golf with Clint Eastwood a week before Clint started filming a new movie and he asked him how he kept such a work pace at his age. Clint said "I get up each morning and I don't let the old man in," Toby went home and wrote the song "Don't let the old man in". He  sent it to Clint who put it in the movie "The Mule". I'm no Clint Eastwood but, I get up each day and try not to let the old man in!

opipeman

@pipeman83;
I don't even remember 59. I remember 1959, but not the age of 59.

motie2

@opipeman

Heck, I don’t remember 73.... or 1973. Wait, yes I do: ‘twas the year I was ordained. Other than that, it’s all a fog.

KA9FFJ

What year is it? 🤔

motie2

@KA9FFJ

5781 years since creation, as reckoned by Scripture.

But not by the late Carl Sagan........

KA9FFJ

@motie2 At our age, it's probably easier to remember way back then than 2 minutes ago...😳

RockyMountainBriar

Damn, you guys are old
I'm just an upstart pup, and in more ways than one.

motie2

@KA9FFJ

..... easier to remember what?

jfreedy

Here's to memory...

https://youtu.be/9yN-6PbqAPM

motie2

@jfreedy

Jake the Snake Roberts? <giggle>

KA9FFJ

@motie2
... Uhhh ... I mean ... Uhhh ...
I'll get back to you when I think of it...

AnantaAndroscoggin

Why am I suddenly reminded of the German band Corvus Corax ? ? ?

motie2

For the rest of y'all: Corvus Corax, referred to by @AnantaAndroscoggin,  is a German band that plays Medieval influenced music on period instruments. BTW, Corvus Corax is the Latin term for raven.

ghostsofpompeii

That you'll grow hair on your palms and go blind.

Wait a minute - that's a myth about something else.