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This smoking pipe made from asbestos (media.piefed.social)

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago

I stole it too, enough decades ago that I forget who I heard it from. I think it may have been an old grizzled Chem Engineering professor my first semester of college