two-twenty

hello kitty v 1.0.1b

To paraphrase a Chinese proverb (which we so wish was Japanese), show a man a Hello Kitty water pipe; you have delighted him for today. Teach a man to make a Hello Kitty water pipe; you have delighted him for a lifetime.

Dane, one of our treasured readers and a two-twenty disciple, if you will (though you probably shouldn't), put our ingenuity to the test. In his own words:

My girlfriend sent me your link and jokingly said to make it in my spare time. which of course i never have, so i made spare time and actually did it. It took me 2 diff sanrio stores to find the necessary components. i made a few changes. Note the pink tube so u wont notice the smoke stained plastic. I used a glass bowl i had in a junk drawer for 7 years! the blue matched the flowers perfectly. I drilled a carb over the copyright mark on the back. My girlfriend never smokes but couldnt say no this one! thanks for a good joke! i bet you could sell these things though!

So, thanks for following us down the rabbit kitty hole, Dane. Two-twenty applauds your improvements upon our original concept by using a pink tube, and appreciates you for proving what our initial testing indicated: no one, not even those who gave up the wacky tabbacky long ago because even the smallest hit induces an oh-fuck panic attack, can resist the lure of The Kitty.

P.S.
We neglected to mention in our original How-To that unless you go Dane's alternate route, you'll also need a "down tube with bowl" to insert into the plastic sleeve (fashioned, as you no doubt remember, from the Hello Kitty Flower Power Rocket Eraser Pack) in front of Kitty's nose. The only advantage to the "down tube" design is that it negates the need to drill a second hole for use as a "carb". We do, however, note that Dane's technique just happens to do away with the Sanrio copyright stamp...