*** On 04 Feb 97  03:27, James Mackie did say (to Darr Hoag,) this: 
 > uhhhh.. whats a Hookah?
Did you consider consulting a lexicon?
(You'll have to for the pronunciation, as the 'short double O' sign - like in 
"foot" - doesn't translate well to the IBM character set.)
According to Webster's:
Hookah, noun, (Arabic 'Huggah' a round box, a bottle through which tobacco 
fumes pass.)  A pipe with a long flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is 
cooled by passing through water. Cf HUBBLE-BUBBLE, NARGHILE.
... Inhale to the chief - Legalize it!
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