"Colonel Mustard"

[odilonredon]

Hi there

I have a hard time understanding this sentence below.
"I did try smoking pot one time, it was from a cheerful yellow and white pipe named Colonel Mustard, which definitely doesn’t count."

I know "Colonel Mustard" is a character from the game, Cluedo.
I don't understand why it doesn't count when you smoke pot from a pipe named Colonel Mustard?
Is it a metaphor or something?

Help, please.
Thanks.

 

[Tdol]

I'd guess that the person smoked pot once, but didn't feel that they had done it properly. The Cluedo references don't make much sense to me, but maybe it was a meerschaum pipe.

 

[MikeNewYork]

In the US, the game is called "Clue".

 

[Jill Dorchester]

I'm guessing, after reading the quote in context, that the writer was saying that smoking marijuana from a pipe fashioned to look like a board game character negated the "badness" of smoking the devil's weed. It's a rather nerdy way of smoking dope, as opposed to using a tie-dyed colored bong decorated with pictures of Jerry Garcia.

 

[MikeNewYork]

It was Colonel Mustard in the hall with a pipe. ;-)

 

[bhaisahab]

Are you sure it wasn't a bong, Mike?

 

[MikeNewYork]

It could have been. :lol:

 

[SoothingDave]

There's no bong in the US version of Clue. At least not yet.

 

[bhaisahab]

There's no bong in the US version of Clue. At least not yet.

Not even in Aspen, Dave?

 

[emsr2d2]

I think then it might be called "Clue-ooh-ooohhhhhh".