# Hiring a hookah... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 5, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574 "2014-09-05T13:16:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/1 "2014-09-05T13:16:21Z")
This piece was in the local paper this morning and I damn near broke something laughing at it. [Hooker Busted for Stealing Hookahs](http://www.courant.com/community/west-hartford/hc-west-hartford-hookah-hooker-hooked-0905-20140904,0,6152730.story) All I can think is that the reporter was mumbling _thankyougod_ all the way through… ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/2 "2014-09-05T14:30:23Z")
Don’t bogart that bint, my friend, pass her over to me. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/3 "2014-09-05T14:45:47Z")
Is there a Darwin Award-like site for people who are too stoopit to live but _don’t_ take themselves out of the gene pool? I’ve got a few nominations if there is one. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/4 "2014-09-05T15:13:27Z")
If only that one of the participants in the altercation had been Maori, we could have added haka for the headline trifecta ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/5 "2014-09-05T15:53:34Z")
I imagine she was planning on taking the stolen items to a pawn shop. So she was also a potential hawker. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/6 "2014-09-05T15:55:37Z")
Book 'er. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/7 "2014-09-05T15:59:22Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I imagine she was planning on taking the stolen items to a pawn shop. So she was also a potential hawker. How many hookahs could a hooker hawk? If a hooker could hawk hookahs? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/8 "2014-09-05T16:00:44Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Don’t bogart that bint, my friend, pass her over to me. That’s what shisha said. ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/9 "2014-09-05T16:27:59Z")
Hookah? Isn’t that just a hooker in Boston? ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/10 "2014-09-06T00:00:04Z")
Smokin’ Hottie…? ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2014, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hiring-a-hookah/697574/11 "2014-09-06T03:56:49Z")
> [@hotflungwok](#): > > Hookah? Isn’t that just a hooker in Boston? I have to call this one for the win… because after posting that this morning, I spent the day in Boston…