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Mrs Radio
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 Posted - 10/06/2006 : 12:45:36
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When we lived in San Diego a friend of ours had a couple of hookahs that he had purchased and brought home from egypt. We tried a couple of different flavors of tobacco with him and his wife, and I have to say I really enjoyed it. Since then we have purchased a few hookahs of our own. My tried and true favorite is double apple. We tried the jasmine flavor, but that was like smoking purfume.
I'm not a cigarette smoker, but I do love to smoke a hookah every now and then.
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coon
Contributing Member
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 12:51:26
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coonazz jr. is a glass blower, he's made several customs from borosilica glass.
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe |
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dragonslayer212
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Djibouti
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 12:53:48
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I smoke cigarettes regularly, but I also enjoy tobacco in other forms. A nice Cuban or Dominican cigar can be very intoxicating with your choice of liqueur after dinner. Mrs dragonslayer hates all smoke so I accommodate her by keeping it a guy thing when the gals aren't around. Pipes are appreciated for the aroma of anothers smoke, too harsh for me.
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Cheese
Contributing Member
USA
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 12:54:13
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Originally posted by coonazz
coonazz jr. is a glass blower, he's made several customs from borosilica glass.
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe
Really? Hmmm, I would like a custom made pipe  How much? 
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Mrs Radio
Contributing Member
USA
2726 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2006 : 12:54:42
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Originally posted by coonazz
coonazz jr. is a glass blower, he's made several customs from borosilica glass.
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe
Very nice.
I was eyeballing a hookah in Miami, but it was so expensive I didn't get it.
The funny thing is, our friend brought his back from egypt, its red glass and about 4 feet tall with the most amazing painted on detail work, came with a beautiful cobra head for smoking, and he only paid $30. |
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Mrs Radio
Contributing Member
USA
2726 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2006 : 13:04:43
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Originally posted by dragonslayer212
I smoke cigarettes regularly, but I also enjoy tobacco in other forms. A nice Cuban or Dominican cigar can be very intoxicating with your choice of liqueur after dinner. Mrs dragonslayer hates all smoke so I accommodate her by keeping it a guy thing when the gals aren't around. Pipes are appreciated for the aroma of anothers smoke, too harsh for me.
____________________________ “That’s all the bullets we had, or we would have shot him more,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd
When we lived in Miami, I would go to this little cigar shop named Aficionados and get Mr radio presents. I know what he is used to smoking, so I told the owner and then asked him to give me a variety based upon Mr Radios tastes, and not to sell me anything he wouldn't smoke.
I recommend Aficionados to anyone that likes cigars.
I love the smell of a good cigar.
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FortMyersMike
Senior Member
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 13:40:57
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Originally posted by coonazz
coonazz jr. is a glass blower, he's made several customs from borosilica glass.
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe
Coon: You're the third person I have heard of locally who does glass blowing. I find that interesting as I am sure others do. Glass is all around us. In structural engineering we deem glass glazing to be a suspended liquid. I'm sure you see it much different; maybe taking it from a solid or granular state to a liquid state in which you maniuplate it, then cool it to become a solid.
Could you please give us a brief description of how you do it? What is your raw material? How do you add and blend colors? What do you use to heat it? How do you actually blow the glass? What is the toughest part of it? How much production do you attain in a given day of how many hours?
Thanks!
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Black-Ink
Starting Member
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 13:47:55
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| I prefer a nice, tall glass waterpipe as opposed to a hookah. The taste is much fresher, and the smoke more pure. Also, my experiences with multi-hose hookahs is that one usually ends up fighting over the pull with others, like a battle for "world's strongest lungs"... |
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coon
Contributing Member
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 14:13:52
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cheese, price according to what your looking for, basically from $35 up. you tell him what you want, or give him a design...he'll make it. right now he's doing "encasements" which look like the "old snowman" scenes where you shake it and the snow falls, with a bowl on one end and a stem on the other. according to the amount of detail and what you want encased they usually start at $100 or so. he's really good at placing fish, seahorses, mushrooms, etc inside the encasement. (no liguid in the encasement)
FMM, he orders borosicilate tubes and color rods from an outfit in colorado. he has 2 oxy-propane torches to heat things up. the toughest part is uniform heating of the project, as well as uniform cooling (kiln). color rods are approximately the diameter of a pencil and 18" long. these are heated and drawn into rods about the size of a pencil lead. he uses these to draw his artwork inside the glass. during a regular day he can produce simple items every 45 mins to an hour. he also uses gold or silver to fume his projects, which causes them to change colors as they are used. he's been doing this for about 8 years. sometimes you can see his stuff at the local "head" shops. right now "Treasures Chest" in Bonita has a bunch of his stuff.
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FortMyersMike
Senior Member
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 17:05:01
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| So you need a torch and a kiln to do it. Sounds interesting. That stuff brings pretty good money. Thanks! |
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Cheese
Contributing Member
USA
1134 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2006 : 17:15:03
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Originally posted by coonazz
cheese, price according to what your looking for, basically from $35 up. you tell him what you want, or give him a design...he'll make it. right now he's doing "encasements" which look like the "old snowman" scenes where you shake it and the snow falls, with a bowl on one end and a stem on the other. according to the amount of detail and what you want encased they usually start at $100 or so. he's really good at placing fish, seahorses, mushrooms, etc inside the encasement. (no liguid in the encasement)
FMM, he orders borosicilate tubes and color rods from an outfit in colorado. he has 2 oxy-propane torches to heat things up. the toughest part is uniform heating of the project, as well as uniform cooling (kiln). color rods are approximately the diameter of a pencil and 18" long. these are heated and drawn into rods about the size of a pencil lead. he uses these to draw his artwork inside the glass. during a regular day he can produce simple items every 45 mins to an hour. he also uses gold or silver to fume his projects, which causes them to change colors as they are used. he's been doing this for about 8 years. sometimes you can see his stuff at the local "head" shops. right now "Treasures Chest" in Bonita has a bunch of his stuff.
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe
Nice!
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MOTV8D
Contributing Member
USA
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 21:04:43
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What's a Hookah? 
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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radioastro
Absent Minded Professor
USA
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Askabutcher
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dragonslayer212
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Djibouti
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 22:23:06
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Originally posted by MOTV8D
What's a Hookah?
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain
You know.........
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MOTV8D
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USA
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 22:29:32
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Originally posted by radioastro
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Originally posted by MOTV8D
What's a Hookah?
A water pipe, used to smoke tobacco. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah
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Ahhhhh. In my day, they called them bongs. 
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Ice_Babygirl
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USA
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Posted - 10/06/2006 : 22:32:29
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I have to hand it to ya RR & DS...the restraint is phenomenal........ ....LMAO |
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radioastro
Absent Minded Professor
USA
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Posted - 10/07/2006 : 07:50:08
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Originally posted by MOTV8D
Ahhhhh. In my day, they called them bongs.
Similar concept, but different smoking vessels.
Both are water pipes. Bongs rely on a very small bowl, and actually lighting and burning the smoking substance.
Hookas have a large, flat bowl, take a very wet tobacco, and never ignite the tobacco, only warm it through.
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catwoman
Senior Member
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Posted - 10/07/2006 : 11:06:51
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I had not heard of hookah until my older son told me about it. He and his friends partake. It seems pretty darn harmless to me. I guess I heard about hookah bars before, but never really knew what they were. There is one in New Orleans where my son lives and one of his friends works there.
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Mrs Radio
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Posted - 10/07/2006 : 11:10:06
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Originally posted by catwoman
I had not heard of hookah until my older son told me about it. He and his friends partake. It seems pretty darn harmless to me. I guess I heard about hookah bars before, but never really knew what they were. There is one in New Orleans where my son lives and one of his friends works there.
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I'd like to know the name. Next time we visit family, i'll be sure to check it out. |
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catwoman
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Posted - 10/07/2006 : 11:18:18
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Here's a link to their website.
http://www.hookah-cafe.com/
It's in a section of the city called the Marigny, right next to the French Quarter.
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coon
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Posted - 10/07/2006 : 12:00:39
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mr&mrs radio...next time you go home, bring back some boudin, not the "white" or seafood varities (you know what i mean) i'll pay for yours and mine both...can't get the "real" thing here ;>(
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe |
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Mrs Radio
Contributing Member
USA
2726 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2006 : 12:46:22
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Originally posted by coonazz
mr&mrs radio...next time you go home, bring back some boudin, not the "white" or seafood varities (you know what i mean) i'll pay for yours and mine both...can't get the "real" thing here ;>(
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe
I was supposed to go last week, but my father went without me! He was in trouble because he knew I was just going to pick up some food from my favorite places.
Where do you like yours purchased from? I only know of one place that I purcha mine because i'm very particular about my cajun food. |
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Mrs Radio
Contributing Member
USA
2726 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2006 : 12:53:38
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Originally posted by catwoman
Here's a link to their website.
http://www.hookah-cafe.com/
It's in a section of the city called the Marigny, right next to the French Quarter.
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Don't worry, be happy.!!
That place looks great! I love trying new hookah bars.
When we lived in San Diego there was a little cigar shop a couple blocks from our home. Mr Radio went in for a cigar, and found hookah tobacco. For my birthday one year the owner gave me HIS tobacco sent to him from his brother in Persia. He custom mixes it for his family.
Its always great to ask to be sold what they would smoke. You get the best quality that way. |
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coon
Contributing Member
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Posted - 10/07/2006 : 13:09:20
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my fav use to be "Billeaud's meat and grocery in broussard. wherever you get yours is fine with me, i don't get back that way very often, so i don't know anymore whats good or bad.
one set of my grandparents back there use to make their own. i remember the whole process.....from "hog to log"...still disturbing.....
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe |
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Mrs Radio
Contributing Member
USA
2726 Posts |
Posted - 10/07/2006 : 13:13:02
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Originally posted by coonazz
my fav use to be "Billeaud's meat and grocery in broussard. wherever you get yours is fine with me, i don't get back that way very often, so i don't know anymore whats good or bad.
one set of my grandparents back there use to make their own. i remember the whole process.....from "hog to log"...still disturbing.....
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe
Best Stop in Scott. Nothing else would ever touch these lips. Yes I'm a food snob. 
Would you actually try something here called boudin? That is a scary thought!  |
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coon
Contributing Member
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Posted - 10/07/2006 : 14:32:46
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well i guess...the boudin i'm talkin about is " boudin rouge, or boudin noir" i think it's 'parts is parts' with a dose of "sang"....yeah, probably your worst nightmare in cajun food! <j/k>
she never even called me by my name...david allen coe |
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