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Beatcop49
Number of posts: 1
Age: 52
Location: The South...no other place to be.
Tobacco: Vanilla flavored aromatics, mostly
Registration date: 2009-10-20
 |  Subject: Introduction  Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:09 am | |
| Hello, as you can guess from my moniker, I'm in law enforcement. I am a 21 year veteran of a middle sized town in the Piedmont of NC. I have only been smoking for about 2 months, and decided to do so upon finding a couple of old Dr. Graybow pipes that were my dad's from over 40 years ago...they are somewhat broken in. I have 2 other briars that were made in Italy. I have been trying out different tobaccos, but find that I keep going back to a vanilla flavor. That special someone in my life also likes the vanilla aroma. I have been a smokless tobacco user, but have never smoked until now. Please don't think me ignorant, but I actually had to google how to smoke a pipe...how to light it and keep it lit, how to pack the bowl, etc. I was introduced to this site by a friend who is former law enforcement...and I am glad he did as there is lots of good info here. Thanks for the opportunity to learn and look forward to many interesting posts. |
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kilted1
Great Scot!
Number of posts: 3284
Age: 48
Location: North Georgia, USA
Tobacco: GLP Haddo's Delight, SG 1792, Condor Original Long Cut
Pipe: Ardor, Viprati, L'anatra
Registration date: 2009-01-12
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:27 am | |
| Welcome! I don't think anyone here will fault you for googling how to smoke a pipe, most here learned the hard way without instructions from anyone! With the internet there are many sources of material which weren't available to me 30 years ago when I first picked up a pipe at the ripe old age of 18. Some sites which might help you expand your world a bit (and help spend some of your hard earned money) http://www.smokingpipes.com/http://www.marscigars.com/http://www.thepiperack.com/http://www.deadmanspipes.com/http://www.frenchyspipes.com/ (Frenchy is DA BOMB to deal with!!!) http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/http://www.aspipes.org/And of course this forum here at BoB, I have a much larger listing of bookmarks here: http://home.windstream.net/rrowe1961/k1_bookmarks.htmlI don't think anyone here believes there is a stupid question about pipes. Again, Welcome 
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I'm a jaded old Iso-Con, get over it!
"Gather me balme and cooling violets,
And of our holy herb nicotian,
And bring withall pure honey from the hive,
To heale the wound of my unhappy hand." Henry Buttes
“A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned this is the sum of good government.” – Thomas Jefferson
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Tennessee Dave
Number of posts: 713
Age: 59
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: 2008-02-13
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:30 am | |
| Welcome to BoB. Enjoy yourself here. |
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puros_bran
Nightrider
Number of posts: 3296
Registration date: 2007-12-11
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 7:16 am | |
| I've been smoking a pipe for a few years 3?4?5? I have terrible memory issues, but anyway... I still google and youtube for pipe stuff... aint no shame in collecting info... whats shameful is having info available and refusing to harness it.. Search youtube for Laughter1099, PipeFriendCHS,1968eric, and our own dubinthedam you'll find them enjoyable and informative
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The Word,The Liturgy,and Charity.
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jhuggett
BoB's Pioneer & Founding Father
Number of posts: 3416
Age: 37
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: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:10 am | |
| Welcome! I couldn't agree with PB more, I've learned everything I know about pipes from the internet and these fine folks here.
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Ol'Dawg
Number of posts: 1059
Age: 63
Location: Northeast Georgia
Registration date: 2008-01-03
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:42 am | |
| A big howdy and welcome! Jim
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Life is like a bath..the longer you stay in the more wrinkled you get.
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Doc Manhattan
Number of posts: 1415
Age: 31
Location: Elm City
Tobacco: Reiner LGF
Pipe: Gregor Lobnik
Registration date: 2008-05-26
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 9:49 am | |
| Welcome aboard! We're all in the constant state of becoming more informed pipemen. Glad you've joined the quest.
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"Never praise your Cider, Horse, or Bedfellow."
-Ben Franklin
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Winslow
Number of posts: 1722
Age: 63
Location: Roselle, IL 60172
Tobacco: Bosun Cut Plug
Pipe: Ardor
Registration date: 2008-04-11
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:03 am | |
| Welcome to the forum,have fun here. Winslow 
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My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.
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pipetongue1
Tobacco Hoarder At Large
Number of posts: 1297
Age: 64
Location: Abington, Mass.
Tobacco: Bosun Cut Plug
Pipe: Tim Hynick POY
Registration date: 2007-12-14
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 10:47 am | |
| Welcome Here!  |
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Centurian 803
Long Arm O' The Law
Number of posts: 812
Age: 59
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Tobacco: Gatlin Burley
Pipe: GBD Canadian
Registration date: 2008-09-11
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:09 pm | |
| Welcome from a brother in blue. This is a great place with a buncha really nice folks who are always eager to help. Ask questions and enjoy the fellowship.
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A pipe is to the troubled soul what caresses of a mother are for her suffering child. Indian Proverb
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jeremyt
Number of posts: 138
Age: 32
Location: Alexandria,Al
Tobacco: still searching
Pipe: old estates
Registration date: 2009-08-18
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 3:59 pm | |
| Hello and welcome to BOB. |
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TallSmoke
Number of posts: 901
Age: 39
Location: Sanford NC
Tobacco: PW&W 191, HPCS Trout Stream, GLP Westminster, GLP Haddo's Delight, "Andy's Favorite" (a local private blend)
Pipe: Mike Brissett, Peterson Aran, Rinaldo, Comoy Lancer, Aldo Velani, Ben Wade, King's Cross, an old Grabow, 2-3 no-name fishing pipes
Registration date: 2009-03-15
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:46 pm | |
| Welcome to the BoB! Some great people here, my friend. Dig in!
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"The men the American public admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." - H.L. Mencken (circa 1940)
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Justpipes
The Duke
Number of posts: 5832
Age: 50
Location: American by birth, Southern by the grace of God!
Tobacco: John Middleton Walnut, Prince Albert, GLP Cumberland, C&D Exhausted Rooster
Pipe: Brissetts, Kaywoodies
Registration date: 2007-12-17
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Thu Oct 22, 2009 6:05 pm | |
| Welcome aboard Sir! You are in a great area for pipe smoking. Check out the Pipe & Pint in Greensboro. _________________  |
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LtMac
Number of posts: 329
Age: 49
Location: Jackson, Tennessee
Registration date: 2008-06-11
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:19 am | |
| Hello and welcome from a brother officer!! LtMac |
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Trout Bum
Number of posts: 628
Age: 41
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Tobacco: Escudo
Pipe: Ashton straight billiard
Registration date: 2008-09-12
| | Subject: Re: Introduction Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:40 pm | |
| Welcome aboard!
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Many men fish their entire lives and never realize that it is not fish that they are after. -- Henry David Thoreau
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