• benderbeerman@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Gen-x millennial here… (born in the late 70’s but still know how to build and use computers)

    I used to smoke weed thru a “pinch-hitter” while waking thru supermarkets or riding the bus. It was a little ceramic or steel cigarette shaped and colored pipe that you could stuff just enough for a toke or two into. Very discrete.

    I’d save the pop cans and apples for after school or when I forgot my chambered metal pipe.

    We still did the same shit, it just didn’t taste as good

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      6 hours ago

      We called it a dugout. It was stored in a little wooden case, and the weed was stored in a separate chamber in the same case.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Nah, the pinch hitter was the pipe, the dugout was the little wooden case the pinch hitter went back into after their hit.

        Both aspects are baseball metaphors, just like a batter goes back to the dugout if they strike out or get a home run.

        Why do I know this I don’t even like baseball.

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        5 hours ago

        I think that was a particular brand that some people started to use as a generic name like kleenex

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      12 hours ago

      It was easier when everywhere was a cloud of tobacco smoke anyway. Your weed smoke would just kinda get lost in it.