>>856982Pipe memes are few and far between nowadays, mostly because that's what happens when a thing has been in a 70+ year decline. The memes tend to die away and people go back to basics.
As for the pipe memes from days of yore, you can still find them from different eras in estate sales and eBay-super ornate meerschaums, gigantic bowls, all sorts of different stingers, air holes on the bottom of pipe bowls, graphite bowls, pipes made of plastic and so on.
Pic related is just such one meme pipe, known simply as The Pipe. It's got a bowl lining made of pyrolytic graphite-the same stuff they used in ICBM nose cones-and the rest of it is heat-resistant phenolic. Awesome in theory, it was a sensation with new smokers (and most especially their girlfriends, who were the prime marketing demographic) when they hit the market in the 60s. Longtime smokers hated them because they were heavy, gurgled a lot and smoked very hot if you packed and smoked them like a normal pipe. They were also expensive-one cost almost as much as a Dunhill pipe in those days. Now they go for about $10-20 on eBay, while you can't touch a used Dunhill for less than $100.
