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== Who is this Jan Pietenpauw? == | == Who is this Jan Pietenpauw? == | ||
[[Image:jps3a.jpg|left|caption]]"Who is Jan Pietenpauw?" you might ask. Well, let me tell you. Jan Pietenpauw is the Dutchman who carved Van | [[Image:jps3a.jpg|left|caption]]"Who is Jan Pietenpauw?" you might ask. Well, let me tell you. Jan Pietenpauw is the Dutchman who carved Van Hunks' pipe. (Van Hunks was the fellow who beat the devil in a smoking contest whilst sitting on the slopes of Table Mountain in Cape Town many years ago. And sometimes, even to this day, the mountain is still covered in a cloud of smoke). | ||
No, this is not quite true. Jan Pietenpauw did not carve Van | No, this is not quite true. Jan Pietenpauw did not carve Van Hunks' pipe, but he did create that famous calabash of one Sherlock Holmes![[Image:jps2a.jpg|right|caption]] | ||
Now for those of us who know, Sherlock Holmes never smoked a calabash. In fact, he never even existed!... and neither did Jan Pietenpauw! But in all legends, there has to be a hero. | Now for those of us who know, Sherlock Holmes never smoked a calabash. In fact, he never even existed!... and neither did Jan Pietenpauw! But in all legends, there has to be a hero. | ||