There is no finer measure of a man than the way he smokes a pipe.
posted by Brandon Blatcher on Mar 7, 2009 - 91 comments

Cope pipe without a jig. Enter a few parameters and get a pdf that will give you a printable pattern that will allow you to notch tubing for welding or brazing to another pipe.
posted by Mitheral on Mar 15, 2008 - 35 comments

He keeps his white gloved hands where parents can see them. And buys liability insurance, just in case.
posted by chlorus on Dec 21, 2007 - 59 comments

Dancing Pipecleaner Man. Make him boogie! [flash]
posted by brain_drain on Aug 3, 2006 - 14 comments

Holy Crab! We're several thousand feet down, where the pressure is about 3300 psi. The pressure inside that pipe? About zero. The crab? A goner.
posted by lunalaguna on Nov 2, 2005 - 80 comments

La Pâte à Son. "Pipe Dream" for musical types. [flash, via LFI]
posted by Johnny Assay on Jul 23, 2005 - 1 comment

Banned by the Vatican and created by a tone deaf engineer... presenting the Hammond.
posted by drezdn on Aug 30, 2004 - 20 comments

Remember how some of us joked that the mailbox bomber was placing his bombs in a smiley face pattern? Well, we were right.
posted by Reggie452 on May 9, 2002 - 9 comments

Camworld points to the [second page of] the Encyclopedia Brown piece (like everyone *else* who didn't actually *read* it; *Busted!* :-) and also to Comma Separated Values Considered Harmful, a treatise that the vertical bar character ("|") is a better field separator in tabular text data files than the comma or even the tab.

Is that really news? It wasn't to *me*...
posted by baylink on May 20, 2000 - 13 comments