Setting himself up for a fail
Back in the uni days, I was a bit of a marijuana enthusiast. The kinds of people I hung out with is fairly predictable and, of course, most possessed some kind of homemade bong.

One particularly interesting piece of Blue Peter paraphernalia was a bong made out one of the Alton Towers Oblivion cups that you used to get. For those of you unfamiliar with the shape, here is crappy drawing so you can get an idea of the shape.

The problem posed by the shape was that you sort of had to put your face into the top of the bong to get an air tight seal since the hole in the top was 10-15cm across.

So, we were puffing away on this thing and someone who lived in halls with one of my mates (I forget his name) comes and out and asks if he can have a bowl.

Of course you can mate, weed is for sharing, after all.

There were about ten of us sitting on the grass chatting happily, there were a few different conversations on the go, and he joined in with the banter and waited for his turn. Good day.

When it came round to him, he packed himself a bit of a fruity-looking bowl for such a shonky bong. When he was ready to go for it, rather than just getting on with it he insisted everyone watch him toke it.

"Everyone watch me do this bong.

"Back home in Greece they call me Bong King."

People, unsurprisingly, aren't that interested in watching a bloke smoke a bowl... it's not that special, but he insists so all conversations that were flowing along quite nice come to a halt and he has his audience.

He puts the lighter to the bowl and starts tugging away, he's doing something wrong though because - as the bong smokers among you will know - the smoke is supposed to sit on the water, but it was creeping up the neck towards his mouth. He hasn't pressed his face in hard enough.

As the smoke reaches his lips it catches in his throat, causing a rather unexpected cough. Of course, his mouth is still on the bong so all the air he expels goes straight into the pipe, firing the cherry/mix into the air at the head of stream of bong water that covers several of the reluctant spectators. He then goes into a coughing fit.

Most people remain politely quiet. He has, after all, just made a bit of a dick of himself and it was an unfortunate combination of 'bigging himself up' then failing to consider bong quirks - it could happen to anyone.

Me and one of my mates simply couldn't contain ourselves though and literally fell about laughing. Utter hysteria.

Our Greek friend looked like he'd walked into a communal shower and everyone had started laughing at his 'little man'.

Poor bloke, I felt terrible but I couldn't stop laughing. Sorry Bong King.
(MrKipling43, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 13:19, 2 replies)

Some people call me Bong King
But I just think I'm free
(Fork it! Olson Johnson was right, Fri 23 Jul 2010, 15:22, closed)

I made one of those
We connected 3 together though.
I took great effort toking on it. Plus you needed someone else to light it as you couldnt reach.
It was bloody stupid.
(Lord Potato, Sun 25 Jul 2010, 23:33, closed)