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lukon_idein ([personal profile] lukon_idein) wrote2007-02-25 11:49 pm
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Huh. You don't say.

"However, the metal pipes could be painful if jolted into someone's eye, and they were not widely used." -- Ivor Noel-Hume, Artifacts of Colonial America

Um, I'm pretty sure a ceramic pipe would also be pretty painful if jolted into someone's eye. Did this happen a lot? Who knew pipe smoking was an ocular hazard? Perhaps we ought to petition to get a warning placed on pipe tobacco packaging.

[identity profile] lil-1337.livejournal.com 2007-02-26 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
You would think anyone old enough to actually smoke a pipe would have better hand-eye coordination than that.

[identity profile] lukon-idein.livejournal.com 2007-02-26 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd think! Maybe if you were on a boat or something, I'd understand. (Perhaps that's why all those pirates have eyepatches?) Must be too much wine and spirits. I guess drinking and smoking just don't mix!
: )

[identity profile] lil-1337.livejournal.com 2007-02-26 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Now that's an reason for the eyepatches I'd never thought of. Just remember kids, friends don't let friends boat and smoke.

[identity profile] lukon-idein.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 07:03 am (UTC)(link)
LOL! They always claim they lost it in a fierce battle for a Spanish galleon laden with gold, but now you know the truth. Now I'm wondering what really led to all those peg legs...

[identity profile] lil-1337.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
Using the bottom of their shoes to tap the pipe out on?

[identity profile] lukon-idein.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
OF COURSE! Genius! I can see it clearly - after a long stint in the powder room preparing shot for the next daring battle, one of course needs a smoke. But one forgets one has spent all day in said powder room and has many grains of gunpowder embedded in one's shoes, and when one goes to empty the smoldering pipe before turning in for some well-deserved shut-eye (just the one, of course) - BLAMMO. Bye bye leg. So sad. That pirating life sure was tough!

[identity profile] lil-1337.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 07:33 am (UTC)(link)
*nods sadly* It all makes sense now does it? A horribly rough life that risked life and limb. Well, eye and limb as it were.

[identity profile] dentelle-noir.livejournal.com 2007-02-26 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see it now: "EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it! 'Man made cyclops in pipe-smoking accident! Doctors plead for an end to the insanity!'"

[identity profile] lukon-idein.livejournal.com 2007-02-26 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee hee! I'll have to dig up past issues of the New Amsterdam Gazette and see if that ever came up. ; P