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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FairlyStable" data-source="post: 94358" data-attributes="member: 269">Interesting, varied, and humorous responses – thank you, gents!Pipes are very interesting as instances of human-object relations. We have quite intimate relationships with them, if I may put it this way, and much more so than with most other objects. Like my pipes, I am quite fond of my chainsaws and telescopes, for example, and these also spend a good deal of time in my hands. Unlike my pipes, however, my chainsaws and telescopes spend very little time in my mouth and I need not worry how they taste! Seriously, though, not quite the same level of intimacy there, I think. Perhaps this contributes to the rather acute passion we can feel toward them compared to other things in the world of artifacts.</blockquote>