That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for December 02, 2020

These kind of hookahs were lot less expensive than the other kind.

Stuart was just a white kid in his mom’s basement until he took a hit. Now look at him.

Mmm. Turkish coffee with Turkish hashish. All that those Europeans have is their filthy whisky and weak tea. They don’t know what they are missing out on.

al-Habib is ready for the dancing girls.

“Winston travels the smoke to you” – about ten feet! (I think it was Winston – anybody remember?)

‘Tis said that the length of the toes/ other lengths may also disclose./ Hence the mighty Ali/ makes certain to be/ unhindered by boots or by hose.

He’s a giant among his “bro’s” / and inclines to the casual pose/ which comes under the heading/ of “ultra man-spreading”/ but who dares complain? Allah knows..

well, put that in your pipe and smoke it…

It’s 4:20 somewhere.

One of the lines I remember from a skit by the Canadian comedy pair, Wayne and Shuster, during the 70’s

FS) “This is a hookah. It makes you happy”JW) “Ohhh…the happy hookah”(period context, the Xaviera Hollander bio book The Happy Hooker was current then)

“Dave’s not here….”

“Black Nepalese, it’s got you weak in the knees…” Humble Pie

“Whaaasup?”

I feel ya buddy but I gotta travel so I’ll just take a bud some papers.

Abdul wished someone would invent the e-cigarette so he wouldn’t have to schlep all his cumbersome vaping equipment around.

No, I don’t have a gun in my pants. Why?

Caterpillar, you look so different now.

Mine is bigger than yours.

“Sittin’ on the stoop with the Bey, wastin’ time.”

You got any Oreos?

And to think, the previous person was using it to give themselves an enema..

The Smoker You Play, The Drinker You Get.

You get chicks your way Omar and I’ll get them my way.

Just imagine how much less tobacco-related illness/death we would have if you always had to use that contraption to smoke.

Or would we have millions of people dragging around a bigass hookah? OK. That. Then we non-smokers would be annoyed at both the smoke and the incessant burbling sound millions of those things would make. Big Tobacco wins again.

[COUGH COUGH HACK COUGH]

Smooooooth!

That is a pretty impressive result from pencil, ink, etc on cardboard. Congrats Mr. Haag.

Haag’s Happy Habib Huffing His Hash-Hookah

“You’re right…this Maui Wowie is definitely superior to the old Mocha Toka.”

Hookah’d’ve predicted his success? He’ll never go tobacco’ver the tracks, where he started.

“I could use some pillows”.

Smoking in the Boy’s Room………

The boy in the backroom.

Rest is Sweet: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Haag_Kieff_Yaoos_1893.jpg 

has info and links that point to more info about this (roughly B4 paper size) painting.

 

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O144645/baalbek-watercolour-haag-carl-rws/ 

https://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/correspondence/people/biog/?bid=Haag_C&initial=H 

https://www.askart.com/artist/Carl_Haag/11037214/Carl_Haag.aspx 

https://bookshop.org/books/carl-haag-victorian-court-painter-and-travelling-adventurer-between-orient-and-occident/9783422074934?aid=4103&listref=art-books-on-art-and-artists 

https://www.pictorem.com/profile/Carl.Haag 

https://www.galeriearyjan.com/en/carl-haag.htm 

all have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, askart.com can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL. First work by him used here.

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2590 (December 1, 2020) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

One for the road: This chap is the mighty Ali/ he’s as fearsome as fearsome can be/ he was hired to scare ‘em/ away from the harem/ but he looks like a stoner to me.

“Yeah, its a nice rig, but I still kind of miss the days when we’d just punch a hole in a soda can, and use a little piece of foil.”

No, I never said I as going to the red light district. I said ‘hookah’.

I’ve got my hookah.

I’ve got my Turkish coffee.

Can somebody make a run to Taco Bell for me?

“Tell those guys that they’re the wrong kind of Indians to be reading something into smoke signals.”

“It’s gonna attack me!”