Re: Pipes and Pool...

Hi Walt
When I'm doing peirce work (cutting out little metal pieces with a jewellry saw) I have to get down real close and I'm wearing those magnifying lenses on a headstrap/hood thingy. If I'm smoking a pipe, I keep hitting it with the saw, and the smoke seems to accumulate in the hood thingy as well. I can still smoke a pipe when I'm doing the sanding, carving, and polishing but the cutting is smoke-free.

John

Cannoy Pipes wrote:
And now for something on topic and not offensive...

I struggled with the title for this thread. I almost went with "Briar
and Billiards" when "Oliphant Obsticals" fell through.

Anyway, I am a pool addict. My game of choice, nine-ball. I also enjoy
one pocket and a little straight pool every now and then. I hate
shooting eight-ball as I don't listen to country music and I no longer
drink. Snooker just pisses me off...

The first thing I look for when visiting a pool hall is ash trays. I
can't shoot a good stick without smoke in my eyes. I gotta be smoking.
I'd hate to admit it, but recently it's more cigarettes than anything
else. There were days when I'd take my pipe to the pool hall, but that
didn't last long. See, I'm a right jawed clencher and a right handed
pool shooter. When I get down in the 'proper' position to aim for a
shot, the pipe hits against the cue. This can mess up a shot, not to
mention hurt your teeth.

This, coupled with the fact that I love horn and oliphant shaped pipes
which always left ash on the table when I leaned down, pretty much saw
the end of my pipe smoking at the pool hall. Now it's just me, my hand
made six point Joss brand Balabushka replica, and a Marlboro light
(which still leaves me blowing ash off the table sometimes, and Simonis
860 tournament cloth is not cheap).

Just as I am writing this, I had a thought to mention, I also play
trumpet in a funk band (link below). While smoking a pipe during the
shows would prove to be quite difficult with a horn to your face and in
your hand, I find that a cigarette fits quite snugly inside the curve
of the first valve tuning slide on my trumpet. This makes for quick and
easy puffs between musical phrases.

Now, I am not, by any means, promoting cigarettes as an alternative to
pipes, although it is interesting to actually type those words after
hearing of pipes as an alternative to cigarettes. I am just pointing
out some situations in which I like to smoke, but a pipe is not exactly
convienent.

So folks, aside from rugby and scuba diving, what activities do you
enjoy which prevent you, by the nature of the thing, from smoking your
pipe at the same time?

Cheers
Walt
www.cannoypipes.com
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