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January 3rd, 2008

Look! A puppet show about smoking!

Posted by: Robert Basler
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This is a photo of a restaurant owner in Germany who cut holes in his wall so patrons can stay indoors, but stick their head and arms outside to smoke. I see flaws.

Say you take a date. She has to act like she’s not connected to this headless, armless doofus bent over against the wall? Or if she does want to talk, she has to stand by your butt and shout like a nut job, or go out in the cold to face you, which makes you look like a pig. Honestly, there’s no dignity. You’re exposed to anyone who wants to a) steal your wallet or b) dangle sauerkraut from your nose and take your menthols.

But what concerns me most is that every child walking by is going to mistake this for a puppet show, and notice the characters are chain-smokers. “Mommy, why do all the Muppets have a cough?”

smoking-360.jpgRestaurant owner Michael Windisch smokes through hole in the wall of his restaurant in Goslar, December 29, 2007. REUTERS/ Johannes Eisele

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8 comments so far

Couldn’t he, I don’t know…just not smoke?

- Posted by Charlene

Yeah. This guy has a girlfriend.

- Posted by John C Abell

This would be endless fun for me. I’d just sit outside with an arsenal of pies…

- Posted by K

Where do you get these pictures? Is this really new or just another Reuters stock photos?

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Me, too! Then I would eat the pies while I shot at the smokers with a BB gun….

- Posted by Robert Basler

Ow! Someone wacked the mole on my lip!

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

Which is closher? The bathroom or the… Bbbrrrrhhhhggggghhhgghghghg.

Bbbbhhrrhhggghghghg

Shoes.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

I’m going to be late coming home from work again today, honey. I’m going to pop my head into the pub for a pint and save the life of another smoker. You know, I feel like I’m doing God’s work here.

- Posted by Shawn Hendricks

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