Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by MickR

Buckeye I'm really starting to hate you! One of the things I regret the loss of was my Ruger 10/22 (as well as my Mini 14) when that bast@rd PM, John Howard slapped his ridiculous bans on semi's. Mick

Mick, I'm curious as to how the ban was implemented. Were you required to turn them in by a certain date or face legal penalties or fines? Did the govt. at least pay you fair value for them? I have an idea that we are headed in a similar direction (for our own good and protection, you understand).

PM sent mate. Last thing I want is someone shutting down one of my favourite threads because it went off track.


Mick

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Mick, I'm curious as to how the ban was implemented. Were you required to turn them in by a certain date or face legal penalties or fines? Did the govt. at least pay you fair value for them? I have an idea that we are headed in a similar direction (for our own good and protection, you understand).

Look up this vid on youtube
Australia Protests Gun Ban Wake Up American

Friday afternoon pipe while being on ice with the sheep
KC Flakes from Stanwell

OJK in the benton and a cob yesterday and starting today with a cob full of OJK again. Every time I shy away from it I forget how amazing burley is in a cob.

Tomi,

these are depressive pictures...
I like this weather...
better fu...hot sand than fu...cold snow!

Originally Posted by eTom

Tomi,

these are depressive pictures...
I like this weather...
better fu...hot sand than fu...cold snow!

Well i like my weather moderate. As long as it's +20 to -20 C (68 to -4 F) i'm ok. Anything else and i'll take my coat & pipe and leave

Well, maybe the weirdest place i've ever been was in Arab Emirates. They had built a slalom slope & snow world inside a huge shopping mall. There was a thermometer telling it was about - 5 C inside and people were using helmets and thick parkas

Those damn guards didn't let me and my son to go inside as we refused to take those winter clothes into such warm place.

This is interesting, or at least feels so after few beers
A very weak link to the history of tobacco in Scandinavia:

Now there's a very popular Finnish lullaby 'tupakkarulla'. I'm 100% sure that nobody has sing it to me for at least 48 years but i remember my wife singing it to our kids when they were little.
I never thought about lyrics, until now. I recently watched a document 'Kings of our past' that is about Swedish Empire between ~ 1000 - 1809 BC while we were still Swedes (although nowadays saying it aloud would get you killed by burning by our political extremists. lol).
Howevers, i learned that the song is from AD 1520. It is written in poetic form, like most of our medieval texts. The most popular book from those times is Kalevala, sort of a mixture of LOTR, Beowulf, sagas and modern song of fire and ice (or maybe those modern verses draw their influences from Kalevala).
Howevers, the lyrics goes like this (in English):

Tuu Tuu tobacco roll
How did you know to come here?
I came along the path of Turku,
Häme Ox Road.

How did you know our gate?
This is how I knew your new gate:
lock below, on a wheel
bearskin on the gate.

Dream asked on the oven,
dream boy on a porch:
Is the baby in the cradle,
small blankets inside?

Bring sleep in a basket ,
carry brass in a basket,
brush with the eyes,
showing –? .

Sleep sleep grassland bird
tired tired wagtail,
sleep when I sleepy you,
tired when I tired you.


I have no idea what is all about. Tobacco roll is tobacco rope. path of Turku,
Häme Ox Road still exists. But what is surprising,
tired tired wagtail means a dead baby.

Here's the boring video with not much to see. Not much to listen either unless you are a baby about to sleep:
Nuku, nuku, nurmilintu ... - YouTube