This is a payoff to Big Corn Cob Pipe

reason.com/2021/03/18/a-n…
together we can free America from the scourge of inanimate objects
FWIW, here are detailed bong blueprints from my Iowa City salad days. Saving them for my presidential library
*my roommate and I competed in an ever-escalating arms race to create bigger and more elaborate bongs, starting with simple plexi tubing designs, which evolved to have plunger superchargers and multiple water chambers. Then we discovered the lab equipment at University Surplus
**Anyway years later I saw this Onion article and thought it had to be about one of the bongs we made. I even wrote to the Onion and asked them if the story was based on a real legendary bong from Iowa City, but they never responded

local.theonion.com/stoner-regales…
Thank you sir, but neither I nor my old roommate is working for NASA. My old roommate is kind of a high falutin' architect, I make fart jokes on the internet

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