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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Jul 11, 2006 20:18:16 GMT
Recently I was suggested to do some thinking over a pipe. Unfortunately, I do not smoke and have no wish to start. Of course, I do like the image of my musing over things with a pipe.
Therefore, I was wondering if there existed a fancy looking bubble pipe. I doubt it exists but I thought this might be a good thread to talk about any strange things people have ran across and thought they were interesting.
For example:
When I was in a pool supply store I saw a large inflatable craft for the pool. It was a pirate ship that could even support an adult. In its center was a squirt gun that feed directly from the pool water. It was odd yet the perfect thing for a small bit of naval warfair. Rather neat. I believe it was called the Jolly Roger.
So has anyone else seen anything interesting or know where I might find a fancy bubble pipe?
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Post by Venom65437 on Jul 12, 2006 4:01:51 GMT
No, but I definitely want that pirate ship!
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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Jul 12, 2006 6:52:26 GMT
You know it was about 5 years ago since I've seen it. Perhaps if you go to a site that specializes in pool stuff you can find it by looking for the Jolly Roger.
The only reason I never got it was because it was bigger than my pool could handle at the time.
Sweet, sweet, naval battles!
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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Jul 12, 2006 6:59:49 GMT
You know this reminds me of a couple of stuffed toys I saw recently. One was a large stuffed tootsie pop. The other was a large stuffed Sugar Daddy. Both were a good size like a bat.
Of course my first instinct is that since they had a stirty construction they were the perfect thing to replace foam bats when people wish to beat each other up.
Plus it made me feel like I was in a land of giants.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 12, 2006 8:43:10 GMT
Well, I'm supposed to be the expert in pipes here - or I should say more specifically smoking pipes/pipe smoking  I assume a 'bubble' pipe is what I know as a water pipe (no, not the one in the walls  ) - also known as shisha, to be had from Turkey or Egypt over here: www.shisha-basar.de or www.wasserpfeifen-oase.deEven though they're German, the pictures speak for themselves. Now, what the heck are 'tootsie pop' and 'sugar daddy'? - and stuffed on top of that! Beat's me, respectively my scholarly English  |
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Post by Dark Phoenix Rising on Jul 12, 2006 12:01:55 GMT
I think he means one that you can blow bubbles from, not one that you can suck smoke through bubbles with. i.e. looks like a standard smoking pipe, but you put bubble mixture in it instead and blow through the pipe rather than suck...
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Post by Tsel on Jul 12, 2006 12:40:06 GMT
Tootsie Pop and Sugar Daddy A Tootsie Pop is a candy ball shaped sucker on a stick with tootsie roll candy in its center. A Sugar Daddy is also a candy sucker on a stick, but it has a chewy texture to it similar, but a little tougher than Salt Water Taffy. In USA English slang Sugar Daddy also means something else.  The items described are like stuffed toy imitations of those two candies. But hopefully not a stuffed toy representation of the slang meaning of Sugar Daddy.  |
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 12, 2006 13:08:25 GMT
aha!? You Anglo-Saxons confuse me at times - took me a moment to figure out that a bat can also not be an animal Thanks, both of you - I rather go on blowing smoke rings... |
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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Jul 12, 2006 18:02:20 GMT
LOL Indeed I mean the candies. Normally, they are only about 5 inches long. The stuffed (plush toy) versions are roughly 3 feet in length. And as for the pipe, indeed I'm looking for one that I might blow soap bubbles out of. This topic is proving rather interesting. |
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Post by LaFille on Jul 18, 2006 2:04:47 GMT
The girl wants of these... I bet you too all want of these... ;D |
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Post by Alrik on Jul 18, 2006 17:30:19 GMT
At the beginning of this month I was at a small RPG convention. There, my astonished eyes saw the Holy Grenade Of Antioch ! I mean, someone had really made them. They (I think it was two) were in containers made of cardboard or paperboard which were shaped like tiny chests, just big enough to contain the Holy Grenades. They were layed down on a red (crimson ?) cushion and the Holy Grenades of Antioch were made of soft, plush-like looking stuff, looking a bit like "holy-grenade-shaped" cushions themselves. I never had had the thought someone would actually make them ! :eek: Oh, I even found a picture of it look here. |
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Post by fourleafclover on Jul 18, 2006 20:46:37 GMT
 ;D |
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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Jul 19, 2006 23:50:54 GMT
That is awesome.
I can now load up cute little cleaning robots with Holy Hand Grenades and send them out into the world.
I must remember to count to 5...
"3 sir."
...3 and uck.
Oh, this is not really weird or anything just a reason to check out thrift stores. The other day Sarah was at the cash register when a customer came up to her with a plaque. The plaque itself was nothing special and was only being sold for $1.98 U.S.
However, on the plaque was five Yugi-Oh cards. All the peices of Xodia.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Yugi-Oh, Xodia when played correctly can instantly win a game. On ebay they roughly start selling anywhere between $40-$60 U.S.
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Post by Alrik on Jul 20, 2006 21:18:30 GMT
What's a plague ? In my language, "plague" means "desease". Oh, sorry, you wrote plaque ...  |
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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Jul 21, 2006 5:09:37 GMT
Yes a "plague" is a "Disease." I guess in this case my "plaque" could be a "desease," since I'm not sure what a "desease" is.  Just playing with you. In this particular case I do mean a "PLAQUE" which is a mounted picture. LOL, just found that post funny. |
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Post by Ubereil on Jul 21, 2006 11:09:15 GMT
Well, I don't know about desease, but decease means to die... ;D
Übereil
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Jul 21, 2006 14:40:22 GMT
...and there we're back to the plague! |
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Post by Alrik on Jul 21, 2006 15:37:59 GMT
desease = disease
A German e sounds a bit like the English i in disease, so I made that mistake.
Did you know that "I" sounds like the German word for "egg" ?
(I hate making mistakes.)
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Post by Galadriel on Jul 21, 2006 16:08:48 GMT
desease = disease A German e sounds a bit like the English i in disease, so I made that mistake. Did you know that "I" sounds like the German word for "egg" ? (I hate making mistakes.) |
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Post by Will (Property of Silva) on Jul 22, 2006 18:09:18 GMT
You know that's true.
We might even break our voice box depending on the language.
As it is when I try and get Sarah to speak some spanish words she can't move her tongue properly.
Likewise, when she gets me to attempt some Yiddish words I start choking on the back of my throat.
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) - also known as shisha, to be had from Turkey or Egypt over here:
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