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Guanxi88
Number of posts: 7
Pipe: Marxman Spiggot
Registration date: 2009-04-13
| | Subject: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:28 pm | |
| All kidding aside, please welcome back a former pipe smoker who switched over, in a moment of madness, from his Peterson and Balkan Sobranie (the death of which affected me deeply) to Winstons. Lost my old Peterson (a Dublin, three hundred series - the perfect pipe to tuck into a coat pocket) and still mourn it.
Well, I'm back in the fold, and hoping my straying from the paths of pipe-smoking righteousness may, in time, be forgiven.
Very interested in the old OTC burleys, thinking that the durability and longevity of these tobaccos must be indicative of their meeting a fundamental need. |
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Stefanos
Number of posts: 144
Location: Illinois
Tobacco: VA Flakes
Westminster
Pipe: Tisnky Zulu
Registration date: 2008-10-29
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:35 pm | |
| Welcome! Pipes are a lot saner. |
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Guest
Guest
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:37 pm | |
| Welcome back brother! We'll keep you on the straight & narrow.  |
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jhuggett
BoB's Pioneer & Founding Father
Number of posts: 5174
Age: 40
Location: Olympia, WA
Tobacco: Davidoff Flake Medallions, Reiner Long Golden Flake
Pipe: Sara Eltang Christmas Pipes 11 and 18 of 30
Registration date: 2007-12-09
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:41 pm | |
| Welcome!
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Jason
"Freedom, Security, Convenience: Choose Two"
"For me, I will take freedom over security and I will take security over convenience." ~ Dan Geer
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Guanxi88
Number of posts: 7
Pipe: Marxman Spiggot
Registration date: 2009-04-13
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 12:43 pm | |
| | Stefanos wrote: | | Welcome! Pipes are a lot saner. |
Sane is the word for it. Still can't believe I ever got started on the sticks. "They're just easier to carry around," I told myself. Yeah, so's arsenic.
I'll say this, too: Even the lowliest OTC pipe tobacco, smoked out of the cheapest cob pipe, beats the finest, most costly cigarette six days a week and twice on Sunday.
Now, if I can just find something that meets my craving for what you folks call "vitamin N', this cig junky can stay clean. |
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SailorJack
Number of posts: 450
Age: 58
Location: Exit 109 New Jersey
Tobacco: Anniversary Kake
C&D Poplar Camp
Finck's Golden Cavendish
Pipe: Custom Todd Bannard Plateau Horn
Peterson Donegal Rocky XL02
Registration date: 2008-10-14
| | Subject: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 1:56 pm | |
| The 'Prodigal Son' returns to his senses and to the love of briar. Toss away the coffin nails, sit back and have a nice relaxing pipe and contemplate the meaning of life or just nothing at all. It's all good! |
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Doc Manhattan
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 3486
Age: 33
Location: Land of Steady Habits
Tobacco: GH Flakes
Pipe: Gregor Lobnik
Registration date: 2008-05-26
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:00 pm | |
| Welcome back to the fold! It's like riding a bike--you never forget.
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I've finally stopped getting dumber.
-Paul Erdös, epitaph for himself
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Tennessee Dave
Number of posts: 1027
Age: 61
Location: Dayton, Tennessee
Tobacco: GLP Haddo's Delight, Maltese Falcon, Blackpoint, Charing Cross, Barbary Coast
Pipe: Rad Davis Bent Brandy and Castello 55 shape
Brian Ruthenberg Stubby Apple
Randy Wiley bent Galleon
Bruce Weaver Brandy Nosewarmer
Registration date: 2008-02-12
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:11 pm | |
| Welcome to B&B!  |
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Justpipes
The Duke
Number of posts: 7927
Age: 53
Location: Randolph County, NC If you don't know, you wouldn't understand.
Tobacco: John Middleton Walnut, Prince Albert, GLP Cumberland, C&D Exhausted Rooster , add Carter Hall to the mix, as well as Perfection Plug Burley
Pipe: Brissetts, Kaywoodies
Registration date: 2007-12-17
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:47 pm | |
| Welcome aboard Guanxi! And yes there is a reason that the old OTC blends are still around. Might I suggest that you try the oldest and grandest of them all, John Middleton Walnut that has been around since the mid to late 19th Century, blended from 7 of the world's finsest tobaccos! |
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Guanxi88
Number of posts: 7
Pipe: Marxman Spiggot
Registration date: 2009-04-13
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 3:04 pm | |
| | Justpipes wrote: | | Welcome aboard Guanxi! And yes there is a reason that the old OTC blends are still around. Might I suggest that you try the oldest and grandest of them all, John Middleton Walnut that has been around since the mid to late 19th Century, blended from 7 of the world's finsest tobaccos! |
Yes, I've heard some interesting things about Walnut; it's on my 'to burn' list. Just mow, I'm experimenting with a plug tobacco I'd read something about. I've cut it, 50%, with some dried-out old CH, to improve handling qualities.
I'm on the end of day one of the plug drying (takes forever, even sliced paper thin); as soon as I'm more or less satisfied with it, I'll blend it with the PA, let it sit for a bit, and see what I've got.
Love the look of the plug slices, and hope this will be a cheapo intro to the esoteric joys of plug tobacco in a pipe. |
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raevans
Number of posts: 49
Age: 49
Location: Virginia
Tobacco: 1792, Dunhill EMP, Dunhill Night Cap, Haddos Delight, Scottish Moor
Pipe: Karl Erik Bent Egg
Registration date: 2009-04-07
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Ol'Dawg
Number of posts: 2032
Age: 66
Location: Northeast Georgia
Registration date: 2008-01-03
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kilted1
Great Scot!
Number of posts: 3514
Age: 50
Location: North Georgia, USA
Tobacco: GLP Haddo's Delight, SG 1792, Condor Original Long Cut
Pipe: Ardor, Viprati, L'anatra
Registration date: 2009-01-11
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Mon Apr 13, 2009 9:02 pm | |
| Welcome back, I too made a years long shortcut to cigarettes, while never completely giving up the pipe, I seldom smoked it. I've been completely cigarette free for over three years now, and fell much better for it.   |
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LtMac
Number of posts: 428
Age: 51
Location: Jackson, Tennessee
Registration date: 2008-06-10
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TallSmoke
Number of posts: 1810
Age: 41
Location: Sanford NC
Tobacco: HPCS Adirondack Series "Trout Stream", Butternut Burley
Pipe: Peterson Aran XL02, Neerup bent apple, Mike Brisset, Stanwell Zebrano, etc.
Registration date: 2009-03-14
| | Subject: Re: Pleased to meet you, Hope you guess my name! Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:38 am | |
| Greetings and welcome to the BoB! |
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