Oom Paul history #3:
The Oom Paul shape and the the island of Loom-Pah-Land

As the song goes, "It's not unusual to be loved by you", which really isn't the case, however, what is *really* not unusual, is to shed new light on almost any topic you can imagine through simple investigation in the heavily guarded vaults miles under the Oompaul.com headquarters in Auburn Georgia USA. Some of our earliest maps, which, for purposes I am unable to go into here, are quite different from the "standards" we know of today. If it doesn't exist on our "standard" maps of today, it doesn't exist at all, right? There are many examples that I can not give you, however, here is one that I can divulge which may give us yet another possibility to the origination of the pipe shape named Oom Paul.

Map number 349877-9855-9588-12422150036-587745-yellow-88576 clearly shows an island in the Broderick Price (now called Pacific) Ocean called "Loom-Pah-Land." I can not divulge exactly where this island is, however, it is no longer on our "standard" maps. You may be familiar with the single agricultural crop from this island, the cacao bean. If you've ever eaten chocolate of any kind, you have tasted the fruits of labor of the secretive and lavishly wealthy peoples of this island paradise. The Oom-Pah-Loom-Pah people of Loom-Pah-Land have good reason to keep quiet and stay off of maps. The possibly jealous, but more likely joking Roald Dahl attempted a jab or jest at these good people of secrecy after he was allowed special visitation rights by the then island's King Augustus Gloop. Some sources site Dahl and Gloop falling out of favor with each other by the trip's end possibly resulting in Dahl's work of fiction, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Other sources site the book as a prank on a good friend, going on to say that Dahl and Gloop remained close.

Documents in our vault also reveal that the Oom-Pah-Loom-Pah peoples have been avid pipe smokers for as long as their oral history stretches sighting secret relationships with countries believed to be France, Italy, England, Greece (to name a few) which supplied them with tobaccos (oddly enough) grown in North America (mostly the areas known today as Kentucky, North Carolina, and earlier Florida) as well as custom hand crafted pipes. A photographic type image predating French inventor Niepce's first documented permanent photograph shows an Oom-Pah-Loom-Pah man enjoying his pipe, whose shape fits the description of the Oom Paul (quite possibly Oom-Pah) shape that we know today. Scientific dating puts this photographic type image at 1810, however, documentation shows that it is still the handiwork of French inventor Joseph Nicephore Niepce. This image also obviously predates the aforementioned Paul Kruger.