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zarabia
Gondor
Jan 26, 2:47am
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I don't think Tolkien meant pipeweed to be taken for anything but tobacco. The argument that tobacco is a New World discovery and therefore wouldn't have been present in a prehistoric Europe doesn't hold water as potatoes are also from the New World. Nobody implies that potatoes are anything but po-ta-toes.
As for the effects of tobacco: tobacco smoked in a pipe is different than tobacco in cigarette form. My dad was a long time pipe smoker, but he never would smoke cigarettes because you inhale cigarette smoke into your lungs. Pipe's are mostly smoked for the flavor; you don't inhale. It isn't nearly as addictive; when my dad decided to quit, he quit.
I don't feel that smoking non-tobacco weeds (so to speak) is immoral, I just don't like to think that when the future of Middle-earth is on the line, Gandalf would let the halflings' weed dull his mind.
"The question isn't where, Constable, but when." - Inspector Spacetime
(This post was edited by zarabia on Jan 26, 2:48am)
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Pipeweed
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IdrilofGondolin
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Jan 25, 9:50pm
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For fun...
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jtarkey
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Jan 25, 9:58pm
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Your signature quote should be noted too...
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Hamfast
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Jan 26, 1:04am
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It's not so much
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SirDennisC
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Jan 26, 1:26am
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Bomby..¿... is a Frist-Responder to Tolkien.
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Bombadil
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Jan 26, 2:51am
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I was trying to be deliberately provocative....
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Hamfast
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Jan 26, 3:54am
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Well Bomby will be 63 next week.
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Bombadil
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Jan 26, 10:49am
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Well, you old *art!
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silneldor
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Jan 27, 1:35am
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Far OUT!
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Bombadil
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Jan 27, 2:07am
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Saruman isn't right about everything, though.
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Kassandros
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Jan 26, 2:21am
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Agreed....
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Hamfast
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Jan 26, 3:28am
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I'll say
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Ziggy Stardust
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Jan 26, 3:30am
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Why not?
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paperC
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Jan 25, 10:24pm
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Peter Jackson didn't invent it.
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Lightice
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Jan 25, 10:28pm
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Yup, this +1
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Rostron2
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Jan 25, 10:51pm
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I've smoked exactly one cigarette in my life
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Magpie
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Jan 25, 11:17pm
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And it doesn't seem to have that effect on Bilbo or Gandalf.
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Kassandros
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Jan 25, 11:21pm
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It depends
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SirDennisC
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Jan 25, 11:47pm
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Have heard this from others as well
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Ziggy Stardust
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Jan 26, 3:29am
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My first cigarette made me feel the same.
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sherlock
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Jan 26, 12:04pm
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Correction
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Ziggy Stardust
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Jan 26, 3:25am
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As I recall...
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Lightice
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Jan 26, 11:58am
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all I can say is...
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Magpie
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Jan 26, 3:03pm
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By 1966 it was a "cult classic"
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dernwyn
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Jan 26, 3:07pm
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As a former hippie
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grammaboodawg
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Jan 28, 1:30am
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Real hippies have trouble remembering the precise date for some reason. //
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SirDennisC
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Jan 28, 2:23am
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*snigger*
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grammaboodawg
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Jan 28, 10:53am
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It was the sixties
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dreamflower
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Jan 30, 11:50pm
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I agree
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zarabia
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Jan 26, 2:47am
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Was it PJ's idea?
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Ziggy Stardust
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Jan 26, 3:27am
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depending
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elevorn
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Jan 28, 3:55pm
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History
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dreamflower
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Jan 30, 11:44pm
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