Pipe Smoking Hero(es)

sherlock

Can't Leave

Aug 21, 2011

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Who is your pipe smoking hero(es)? First I'll say my Granddad; without him I would not be the man I am today. My famous heroes are Albert Einstein; for many things but I'll stick to his genius as the main reason, J.R.R Tolkien; For his great literary works, and Mark Twain; Again for his literary works. I am sure there are other that I just didn't know where pipe smokers or I can't think of at the moment, but these are the guys I think right of the top of my head. As I think I'll add more.

 

jar15a1

Might Stick Around

Aug 13, 2011

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• Sep 8, 2011

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From people I know, my grandfather, who used to let me blow out his matches when I was a little kid (that was quite a thrill and a privledge). From the movies, Mortimer from For a Few Dollars More. From academia, Einstein and Oppenheimer.

 

brewshooter

Lifer

Jun 2, 2011

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Santa

 

octavius

Starting to Get Obsessed

Jun 15, 2011

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William Faulkner... Bing Crosby.... Charles Mingus...

 

sherlock

Can't Leave

Aug 21, 2011

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Ahh, Faulkner that's a good one.

 

octavius

Starting to Get Obsessed

Jun 15, 2011

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I smoked through every word of As I Lay Dying.

 

ace57

Lifer

Jun 21, 2011

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Uncle A.

 

octavius

Starting to Get Obsessed

Jun 15, 2011

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sherlock

Can't Leave

Aug 21, 2011

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Dr. Seuss another pipe smoking hero.

 

nathaniel

Part of the Furniture Now

Jan 4, 2011

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Without a doubt :wink: Tolkien, Twain, and Einstein. Hands down.

 

rhogg

Can't Leave

Jun 14, 2011

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Harold Frederick "Boom-Boom" Davis

 

nathaniel

Part of the Furniture Now

Jan 4, 2011

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Dr. Bob Kelso... from the TV sitcom, Scrubs.

 

unclearthur

Lifer

Mar 9, 2010

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nathaniel

Part of the Furniture Now

Jan 4, 2011

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That's mighty handsome, Art...
I heard that he payed a guy to break in his briars because he'd puff too vigorously while writing and have burnouts resulting in having to rewrite his burnt up page. Don't know how true it is, but it's a funny thought. He must've had a tongue of leather.

 

jaybird

Starting to Get Obsessed

Jul 26, 2011

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Albert King, blues man.

 

ejames

Lifer

Oct 6, 2009

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I guess I'd have to say it was a Chief Petty Officer that I used to stand engine room watches with when I was in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club back in 1972-3. He gave me my first pipe and a Half&Half pipe tool. Don't recall what happened to that pipe but I still have the pipe tool. When I got out in 1974 I soon went back to the cigarettes and didn't pick up the pipe again until 2005.

 

pipedisciple

Starting to Get Obsessed

Aug 18, 2011

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• Sep 9, 2011

• #17

Both my Grandfathers, my Uncle and of course Samuel Clemens. ::

 

colorduke

Part of the Furniture Now

Mar 5, 2011

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• Sep 9, 2011

• #18

Porter Wagoner,Shelby Foote,Fred Macmurry.

 

docrx

Part of the Furniture Now

Jan 9, 2011

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• Sep 9, 2011

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Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick (NJ)

 

yuri66

Starting to Get Obsessed

Nov 17, 2010

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My Dad, who's pipes I know own, and CSM Thomas, he was my influence to start smoking a pipe, he would always give me crap about smoking cigs and always said pick up a damned pipe insted of those cigs. So I did,smoked it all the way through Panama, the first Gulf War and Somalia and 20+ years later still enjoy it every day.