Dear Lazy Aussie,
I have attached a photo of vintage bong that I found while cleaning out my shed in East Vic Park. It shows that Perth people were smoking bongs way back when Schweppes Cola not only still existed, but was just $1.00 for 600 mL – pre-WWII? As you can see, the “thumb hole” and piece of garden hose are still intact. If Perth Museum don’t want it then I’ll probably just put it on Gumtree.
Yours sincerely,
Michael (Cash Twon, Murchison Regional Vermin Council)
Well the state library are now archiving it for the future cunts. 
The Worst of Perth 
How did that get there?
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Looks like it has been recently scraped.
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Why is it that yoof thinks that it invented everything?
The original bongs were known as hookahs
Very ancient devices.
Last encountered smoking “Qif” a mixture of foul tobacco and wild grown hemp.
Them, not me.
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Plenty of hookahs at Dog Swamp, its shisha a-go-go, not so much schweppes cola though
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Don’t be coy, Rolly. We know you want it back.
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Schweppes Cola:
Introduced 1985
Discontinued 2000
Not pre-WWII
Idiot.
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Fucking brilliant.
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What an absolute “thumbhole”.
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Isnt a Schweppes a twin engined carrier based bomber? Need to get the thumb ‘over the shot’ before inhaling and letting the buds light?
Thus we have the term – “totally bombed”
Least thats what the RSL say.
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What’s more is that, as everyone should know, prior to WWII Australia did not use millilitres.
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Exactly. If they’d bothered to do any research, they’d realise pre-WWII bongs were generally made of horsehair and tar, with a conepiece fashioned from a ha’p’ny bit heated on a smithy’s furnace and cooled in scrumped apple cores.
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Correct. Here’s my great great grandfather using ye rudimentary olde bonge.
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B is correct, pre- WWII our foreskin fathers sucked back fluid ounces
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Well of all things I never thought I’d type the words “bong” and “pedant” in the same sentence.
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Hope this place wasn’t in Langler St …. lived there for a few years myself back in the late 1980s, although I never once drank Schweppes Cola while a resident (or owned a couch with that colour-scheme for that matter).
While there, Geoff Gallop entered state politics to run for the local seat in the ’89 election. He dropped by one day to see if I had any issues. I told him the deaf school behind the house had some generator problems and the hum was keeping me up at nights. Like the champion he is he got it fixed – and expeditiously too.
I don’t care what anyone sez – had Dr Gallop stayed premier Labor would still be in power … there’s no way he would have lost to Barnett in 2008 … he was a far better boss than the idiotic sour face Carps could ever be.
And now the ALP has sleepy ol’ McGowan (heavy sigh) … another protracted stint in the political wilderness.
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