Popular in Buckhead for at least a month, Cobb County finally has its own hookah bar, again. From the teaser on the front of today’s Marietta Daily Journal to the massive article on the front page of the “Cobb and State” above and below the fold, you would have thought that the Pyramid Hookah Bar and Lounge was the first such establishment in Cobb. At least the article does mention the fact that there has been a similar establishment in Kennesaw that has been open for a while, catering to the smoking habits of KSU students eager to experience a slice of Middle Eastern culture before America finally falls to radical Islam and we’ll all have to trade Starbucks for hookah bars as the social gathering watering holes for the pre-21 set.
Of course that discounts my theory that Starbucks will eventually take over the world, including areas where there is radical Islam, and we will all have to bow to the Starbuck’s mermaid, controlled by our universal caffeine addictions, but that’s a subject for another post.
Hey, the Ron Paul people can have their conspiracies about 9-11, I can have mine about Starbucks!
What got me thinking about the article, and my decision on sharing it, was this quote from Sam Abou, owner of the establishment:
Abou, 39, is originally from the Gaza Strip, which borders the Mediterranean Sea in the Middle East, where hookahs, water-pipe devices used for smoking, are thought to have originated. Abou said hookahs are very common in cafes throughout that region.
“Kids these days love to find a place where they can just hang out and talk,” he said. “In the Middle East we’re very social people, and there’s a lot of socializing going on.”
So, fine, maybe hookah smoking isn’t exactly “for the children,” but “for the kids” is close enough. Well, at least Cobb County finally has a place where kids can gather together and smoke up, because, of course, that never happened in Cobb before. And to think it was only a few years ago that we were all worried about Joe Camel making kids think it was cool to smoke.
The only question now is how is the legislature going to figure out a way to tax this?
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Please don’t give them crazy ideas Shep. They have enough of them on their own!
Once I figure out how to get “outside the box” on this topic I’ll be back. It’s all about finding some disgrundled conservatives, which usually isn’t very difficult.
I got nothing so far…
G.F., you first have to realize that there is no box, then you will know how best to tackle the topic.
Whoa.
Shep clearly doesn’t understand that his world domination theories will collide when Starbucks installs hookahs.
Foreign types with their hookah pipes say…
If there were a box Shep would have me beat so far.
I HIGHLY recommend clicking on the MDJ link and taking a look at the photos that were with the article.
There exists a box,
Of this I’m all but certain.
Yet it eludes me.
Hookahs be damned! Whoever invented “peach flavored tobacco” should rot in hell.
I thought hookahs were arrested by the vice squad, except when they’re with Glen Richardson in his car parked outside of the Capitol?
They have bars now where hookahs can just be picked up legally?
We need to work together toward the day when the hookah will find its nookah.
“I HIGHLY recommend clicking on the MDJ link and taking a look at the photos that were with the article.”
The only pic I saw was of an East Cobb pretentious prepster that looks like he’s destined to have his ass kicked regularly at a wannabe Ivy League school. Did I miss others?
KSU is a “wannabe Ivy League school?”
Depends on what’s in the hookah.
Ahem – I’d like to start a poll. Who here has actually smoked hookah before?
I just assumed he was talking about Emory. All those displaced Subarus…
I’ll admit I have never smoked a hookah.
I’ve gas grilled a hookah. It’s not the same.
As far as conservatives go, I guess everybody would like to conserve something. In this case these kids are conserving the Hookah. Helping to bring it to the new world in fact.
And here I was under the impression someone was spelling “hooker” the way a New Englander would pronounce the word…e.g., “I’m gonna go gets me some hookahs…see youse guyz later…”
Is it pronounced like hooker? If so, the Guy from Cummings will propose a bill to tax it.
Shep, no: Hooka virgin.
Seems like this is how Wisconsin folks would pronounce “hooker”. Met some Wisconsin folks during spring break a long long time ago down at Daytona Beach. Hardly understood them. It’s because they had an accent.
Never done the hookah before either. Never knew about the one you smoke, never needed the one that smokes you.
DK No: reference I don’t quite get.
And I’m officially bored with my Bucky impression.
odin:
The reference is obscure – from the movie Biker Boyz. Leader of one bike gang is named Smoke. Leader of another challenges one of Smoke’s lieutenants, and when the lieutenant tries to back down, the leader of the rival gang taunts him with “I said, are we gonna race, or are you just blowing Smoke?” Actually a decent movie with quite a few well known names in it – including Laurence Fishburne, Kid Rock, Orlando Jones, and several others.
Anyways, the reference was thus to the New Jersey meaning of ‘hookah’.
DK
I would have bet my life savings that you were making a reference to oral sex.
GF:
In an obfuscated manner, of course.
Obfuscated oral sex? Kama Sutra Hookah hula?
“Cobb County Hookas – they’re for the children”
I thought our plight was to “protect the children”?
To protect and serve?
Not with a cherry on top.
If we’re gonna serve the children, then lets set up a boxing and wrestling match between Andre and Erick. That’ll be so fun to watch.
In Georgia (and some other states) oral sex is illegal, so it must be obfuscated.
If you go to the picture on the link and you click your mouse button real fast you get a sort of trippy effect as the picture gets bigger and smaller.
Going back to Bill’s comment, would it be proper to say, “I paked my ca’ by Havad yad to pick up a hookah?”
A little “Iron Butterfly” in the background would only add to the effect.
Not to be confused with the “Venus butterfly”.
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