Slate Asks, Can A Skull Be Used As A Bong?

It’s an eternal question, isn’t it? Can you smoke weed through the hollowed-out head of some poor Yorick you’ve dug up from a cemetery at three o’clock in the morning because you and your drunk teenaged friends are already so stoned that it sounds like a good idea? Slate investigates whether it’s possible, and decides that it’s not going to be easy, simply because it’ll be hard to find a good, empty braincase that will hold water and be more or less airtight.

If the Texas teenagers recovered a skull in ideal condition, they would still have a lot of work to do before they could smoke weed out of it. There are different types of bongs, but any workable model must offer a seal tight enough that water and smoke cannot escape. Assuming the skull was used right-side up, and that the pot-smokers used the brain cavity as their bong chamber, thin fissures in the eye sockets and any other holes would need to be sealed with something like grout to prevent the smoke from seeping out. The teens would also have to cover over the base of the skull, which contains a large opening through which spinal nerves reach the brain. And there are dozens of small nerve holes, called foramina, which might produce a watering-can effect if left unplugged.

They suggest an easier route might be to wedge an existing bong into the skull, and reserve the skull for more of a decorative use. Of course, if you’re going this route you can skip the grave robbing altogether and just buy a skull-shaped bong directly.

“Can a human skull be used as a bong?” [Slate]

(Photo: Bongshop)

Posted on May 11, 2008 by Chris Walters |
 
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