You Have Got to Laugh - - -

[melinx]

--- Or you you would weep

It says on the pouch of my pipe tobacco: -

"From the 1st January 2011, the cut width of pipe tobaccos will increase to a minimum of 1.5mm under EU legislation."

We are paying BILLIONS into the common market for this sort of crap from highly paid committees which undoubtedly sit for months deliberating this sort of legislation


On the same subject: It also says on the pouch of PIPE tobacco "SMOKING WHEN PREGNANT HARMS YOUR BABY"

When did you last see a woman smoking a pipe, let alone a pregnant one

[diplomat2.6]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80oLTiVW_lc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[melinx]

 

The only time smoking caused me any concern in an aircraft was one day up in my glider: I was nicely settled down and thought, 'Time for a smoke'

I had to close the clearview panels and the front ventilator in the canopy or the draft would blow out the match.

After getting the pipe going nicely, I shook out the match (or thought that I had; a match flame is virtually invisible in blazing sunlight) and pushed the 'dead' match back into the full box of Swan matches which ignited the whole box

Thinking 'clucking bell' I held onto it until it stopped flaring (by then you couldn't see six inches in the cockpit)

I managed to claw open one of the clearview panels and hurled the blazing box out with as much force as possible.

I flew on 'normally' for about 20 minutes until the 'sphincter twitter' subsided and landed.

As I taxied to a stop, a number of the flying club members rushed over to me and asked if I was OK ?
surprised, I said 'yes, why do you ask' ?

Apparently, I had been crossing the airfield during this 'drama' and what they had seen was a huge plume of smoke as I opened the clearview panel, followed by a ball of fire.

They said 'We thought you had been hit by flack' 

I bought myself a lighter

[Pedro]

The only time smoking caused me any concern in an aircraft was one day up in my glider: I was nicely settled down and thought, 'Time for a smoke'

I had to close the clearview panels and the front ventilator in the canopy or the draft would blow out the match.

After getting the pipe going nicely, I shook out the match (or thought that I had; a match flame is virtually invisible in blazing sunlight) and pushed the 'dead' match back into the full box of Swan matches which ignited the whole box

Thinking 'clucking bell' I held onto it until it stopped flaring (by then you couldn't see six inches in the cockpit)

I managed to claw open one of the clearview panels and hurled the blazing box out with as much force as possible.

I flew on 'normally' for about 20 minutes until the 'sphincter twitter' subsided and landed.

As I taxied to a stop, a number of the flying club members rushed over to me and asked if I was OK ?
surprised, I said 'yes, why do you ask' ?

Apparently, I had been crossing the airfield during this 'drama' and what they had seen was a huge plume of smoke as I opened the clearview panel, followed by a ball of fire.

They said 'We thought you had been hit by flack' 

I bought myself a lighter

Made me laff!!!