The Lost Explorer

bigboi

Lifer

Nov 12, 2012

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• Mar 26, 2013

• #1

I often feel like a lost kid searching all the different types of tobacco, but I am finding my way.

Got another TAD purchase coming in soon

Orlik Golden Slices

Erinmore Flake

Peterson University Flake

Haddos Delight

Peter Stokkebeye Luxury Twist Flake

Frog Mortons Cellar

McClellend's Grey Havens

Mac Barens Vanilla Cream Flake

Mac Barens ODF

Sam Gawith Firedance Flake

1Q

 

philobeddoe

Lifer

Oct 31, 2011

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• Mar 26, 2013

• #2

That order pretty much covers the spread, good selection there.

 

bigboi

Lifer

Nov 12, 2012

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• Mar 26, 2013

• #3

I am still defining what I really like and what I want to concentrate on stocking up on. Once I really find what I like I will start cellaring more. I wanted to get some Marlin Flake, but it was sold out

 

brian64

Lifer

Jan 31, 2011

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• Mar 26, 2013

• #4

Nice order...enjoy the journey.

 

Perique

Lifer

Sep 20, 2011

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• Mar 26, 2013

• #5

Great order. You are in for a treat.

 

salewis

Can't Leave

Jan 27, 2011

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0

• Mar 26, 2013

• #6

You missed Sam Gawith Full Virginia Flake. Try it, you'll like it.

 

ssjones

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May 11, 2011

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• Mar 26, 2013

• #7

Speaking of the "lost explorer", a modern pipe smoker definitely need some Endurance to figure out all the tobacco varieties available these days!

 

J

john218

Part of the Furniture Now

May 5, 2012

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Connecticut

• Mar 26, 2013

• #8

So many blends, so little time!

 

bigboi

Lifer

Nov 12, 2012

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• Mar 27, 2013

• #9

John you are so right. But I love the recommendations here, people give you an honest opinion with out being complete jerks about it if they don't like that particular tobacco

 

kashmir

Lifer

May 17, 2011

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Northern New Jersey

• Mar 27, 2013

• #10

Say Al, isn't that Thomas Crean in the photo?

 

ssjones

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• Mar 27, 2013

• #11

Yep, apparently Sir Ernest didn't smoke a pipe so that explorer was as close as I could get to an Endurance reference...

 

ssjones

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• Mar 27, 2013

• #12

If he isn't on your wall of famous pipe smokers, he probably deserves a spot!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Crean_%28explorer%29

 

kashmir

Lifer

May 17, 2011

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• Mar 27, 2013

• #13

Haha. Good of you to remember the wall. Actually I do have him up there, between Edward G. Robinson and Shelby Foote, just a different photo of him. A bowl of SOTE in his honor tonight!

 

ssjones

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• Mar 28, 2013

• #14

Ah, I remember the distinctive head gear!

 

kashmir

Lifer

May 17, 2011

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• Mar 28, 2013

• #15

Looks like a potato sack. But seriously, they don't make em like they used to. And a pipe smoker to boot!
Tom Crean, nicknamed the "Irish Giant" (20 July 1877 - 27 July 1938) was an Irish seaman and Antarctic explorer from County Kerry. He was a member of three of the four major British expeditions to Antarctica during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Falcon Scott's 1911–13 Terra Nova Expedition, which saw the race to reach the South Pole lost to Roald Amundsen and ended in the deaths of Scott and his polar party. During this expedition Crean's 35 statute miles (56 km) solo walk across the Ross Ice Shelf to save the life of Edward Evans led to him receiving the Albert Medal.

 

cigrmaster

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May 26, 2012

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• Mar 28, 2013

• #16

bigboi, great choices although I would make sure you dedicate a pipe to that Firedance flake, it will ghost your pipe big time. Let me know what you think of that one.