How To Smoke A Pipe Through Your Eyeball
Posted by John Brownlee
Of all the subtle facets of the pipe smoking art, the ocular tobacco inhalations perfected by Alfred Lengevin are the hardest to master, although the period of apprenticeship can be greatly reduced through steely resolve, a steady hand, a hard table and an icepick.
Langevin’s talents did not stop at merely smoking a pipe through his deformed tear duct, though: he could also blow up a balloon and play the recorder through his eye. Unfortunately, with the collapse of vaudeville, Langevin fell upon some hard luck: the last mention of him that historians can find comes from a bizarre arrest report filed by the Detroit City Police Vice Department in 1945, incredulously describing a far more perverse form of ocular sucking.
More information here and here. Video after the jump!
What this man needs is a fine handlebar mustache, don’t you think?
Fuma Fuma [YouTube]
Categories: Clips, Ephemera, Pipes
Posted at 8:55 am on July 11, 2007
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