Not only is Dawn Griffin a talented graphic designer, published childrens book illustrator, webcomic creator and my table buddy at C2E2, but now can add assistant script consultant for 1977 to her resume. In a chat with Dawn, the subject came up of how art majors at her college would make glass bongs shaped like a penis. And I thought what a great thing for Jeff to have and bingo… today’s comic was born. Yes, somehow our conversation ended up on smoking pot and bongs. How on Earth did that happen? I have no idea…
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Blown – Bachman Turner Overdrive, 1973.
Besides being a great title for today’s comic, BTO’s “Blown” has a bit of history to it. Only interesting to us BTO fanboys, BTW. First, it is written and sung by Tim Bachman, one of three Bachman brothers in BTO at the time. Next, after the second album was released, Tim was given his walking papers by older brother Randy. Then to add insult to injury, Randy lifted the rhythm guitar part (including the peppy drum riff) from “Blown” to write “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” which went on to become not only a number one hit in the USA, but just about everywhere in the world. Since Randy “wrote” “YASNY”, Tim didn’t get a dime from it. “YASNY” then catapulted BTO into super stardom and they became one of the bigger stadium rock acts of the mid 70s. To bad for you Tim.
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Discussion (25) ¬
Love the tag “penis bong”
Yeah, I laugh at that too…
By having “penis” in the tag line, I’ll rank higher on Google porn searches. Score one for the comic!
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Man, you’d have to be stoned all ready to use that. I don’t think I could ever bring myself to even holding it, much less using it.
I’d do it once…
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Thats one ball busting bong buddy boy!! o.O …. would it be wrong to suggest that it could also be used as a cream dispenser? …ya know, for coffee?!? *snort*
You could use it for cooking oil too…. or how about a sun tan lotion dispenser! “Let me spread that on for you…”
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…….Not the bong I’d choose, no…….
…..but I went to a school with a huge glass and ceramics program and yep; bongs and pipes were made aplenty!
Man, I missed out on shop class… all we ever made were dust pans or shelves…
Ceramic bongs! I could get my wife to make some… hmmm… Wonder if I’d get busted like Tommy Chong did?
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damn, that was fast. Dude says, “Ha ha, that’s funny..one day I should put that in a comic”, and BAM. Penis Bong makes its debut.
The one that a friend of mine made, you actually inhaled through the head, the bowl was in the balls region. He was/is gay… so it was not at all surprising.
Thanks for the flattering write-up Byron! Kind of funny that I inspired this and I’m not even a smoker. I was always the non-smoker friend of the potheads/smokers. I guess they thought I was like their cute little pet, LOL. “Aaww.. how cute is that? She doesn’t smoke! Everyone, pat her on the head.”
Well, the idea struck me as funny and it’s not like I’m on a certain schedule or storyline at the moment, so I popped it in. Also, if I waited, there’s a good chance I’d forget about it. Something to do with those brain cells I destroyed in 1979…
So, as they patted you on the head, did you then bite their hands?
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Way to go, Dawn! Jynksie has some great ideas for other uses…just don’t forget to take the cream dispenser out of the fridge and hide it when Mother-in-Law comes to call….
It might accidentally get dropped. XD
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“What this in the fridge, Dawn…. AAAAUUUGGGHHHH!!!”
Now that’s a way to get the In-Laws to stay away from visiting…
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Hahaha! One of your best, Byron.
Now you can truly tell that they have the stones to get stoned. 🙂
LOL! Yep, you gotta not care to toke on one of those…
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Or the Mother-in-law would come over and display it:
“I saw this had water in it but I was only able to fit in a few flowers for the dinner table, it’s a beautiful colour and so uniquely decorated…”
Mother-in-law then puts on reading glasses…. looks at center-piece….
“AAAUUUGGGHHHHH!!!”
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I have spiky hair for a reason. Stop the head-patting! ;0)
I’ll keep that in mind… 🙂
Penis Bong? Not that there’s anything wrong with it!
Indeed…. 🙂
Thanks for the BTO history lesson.
Never have figured it out, but BTO has always been a huge part of my life. Their music just struck a chord with me (no pun intended) and no matter how many times I hear their stuff, I never tire of it.
Thus, I know WAY too much about them. I have many magazine articles written about them, I have their autobiography from 1975, and even bought from a radio station a copy of an interview from some damn show that was dedicated to BTO. I was also a member of their fan club in the 90s and have seen them way too many times to even count, but needless to say I have seen them in one form or another in every decade since the 70s. Use to exchange emails with bassist Fred Turner (how could I *not* trade stories with him).
I am a true fanboy of BTO… 🙂
I guess this one is for multi tasking….if the glass is thick enough anyway…
great post as usual!