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   cortezattic
   

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   What pipe smoking or tobacco related superstitions, folk lore or seemingly irrational practices amuse you (or control your life)?
   ...and what do you suppose are their origins?

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   Here's one to start off: store your pipe in the vertical position with the bowl down. If you use pipe cleaners after every smoke, is that really necessary?

   I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
   as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau

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   One irrational practice I have: if a smoke goes out too often, I will cut myself off of using a tamp for the next smoke or 2. Hello, my name is Ryan, and I am a serial over-tamper.

   In a society that has destroyed all adventure, the only adventure left is to destroy that society.
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   Here's a scan from an old Wally Frank "Pipe Lore" catalog, circa 1940s. Click for full size.

   (Sounds like a fair warning to me.)

   

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   Thats funny Jimbo, but when I click the picture I get popup ads about saving the environment, and some big fat half naked chick on a porno cam
   Maybe time for a better site to host your pics?

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   (sigh) I don't get that at all, lonestar. I selected "Family safe" and not "Adult" when I uploaded this. CLicking on the thumbnail first gets a wind farm ad which you close and get the proper pic I uploaded (with no adult ads). I guess I'd better look into another host.

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   I got the wind farm ad, but next thing I know some fat girl is yelling about the size of my Johnson.
   Suppose she could have been talking about bass boats ?

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   I ended up mail-ordering a Filipina to smoke my pipe for me...thanks, Jimbo!

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   I got the wind farm ad, but no fat naked girl You can call me Ray or you can call me Jay....but you doesn't has to call me Johnson

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   I got some random lady, also. I couldn't tell if she was fat. Just knew she wasn't hot enough for me to keep watching.

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    whew lucky i read that and my pc is slow. the page had fully loaded so save the kids from something they dont need to see

    New Zealand
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    Give me the weed, the fragrant weed, My wearied brain to calm; In a wreath of smoke, while I crack my joke, I'll find a healing balm.

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    Cortez's thread is getting jacked.....I'm steering a course correction.

    Here are some common pipe lore statements I see/hear all the time.

    I must worry about getting a good cake in my new pipe before I can enjoy the smoke experience.
    I will graduate to a higher level of smoking if I move beyond aromatics.
    Conversely, I am a higher level of pipe smoker because I never smoke aromatics anymore.
    If I smoke my pipe with back to back bowls, something horrible will happen to me or my pipe.
    Cellering my tobacco for years is the only way to properly experience a blend.
    Meers are too much hassle to bother smoking.
    The only worthwhile pipe makers are the ones I collect.
    mlaug seems to cocky to be likeable, but he is a rather handsome chap.

    There......let's hear some more.

    

    "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolfe

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    Not directly pipe related, but, "Red sky at night, sailors delight; red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" is something I say to myself nearly every day when I inspect the weather, regardless of the sky's actual hue. Must be the OCD.

    Pipe related, I have a friend who asked if smoking a pipe wasn't a bit pretentious of me. I told him I wasn't pretending. He continues to delight in telling me about every person he can find who's ever died or gotten the Cancer from smoking a pipe. I tell him that I hope I get ear cancer first, so that I won't have to listen to his shit anymore.

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    mlaug I am looking at your avatar, which I can only assume is you. You are not handsome my friend.

    Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight

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    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Sems to me to look like a likeable little goblyn...

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    My most irritating bit of pipe lore is : All beginners should start with aromatics.

    If at first you don't succeed you are running about average.

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    Agreed with unclearthur... aromatics can often turn people away from pipe smoking if they already smoke, chew, or snuff other forms of baccy. Aromatics are often too heavily cased here in the states to really experience any nuances of a decent tobacco

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    Here's one I'll never buy into: the liquid gurgling in the stem is saliva. No way, José.

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    I also agree with Arthur. I first tried pipes some 15 years ago and got a pouch of Borkum Riff...and quit it after that pouch. Didn't pick up a pipe again until three years ago.

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    @MLAUG Amen brother! I couldnt agree more!

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    Cheap pipes can't smoke well.
    If you smoke a cob, your a hick, or work on a tug/fishing boat (I'll have you know I haven't been out for a commercial opening in two whole years!)
    MacBaren Blends ALWAYS bite.
    OTC tobacco is crap.

    And, my personal favourite, usually tossed out by the owner of a B&M:
    That 9' bong over there is for tobacco...

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    I got a windfarm ad, the picture of the Fillipina, and a washed up old gal with a pretty nice new boob job. hell, if i hadn't spent so much on pipes lately, I might of took her up on the chat.

    "To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there."

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    "Here's one I'll never buy into: the liquid gurgling in the stem is saliva. No way, José."

    Exactly.

    most of the time it is condensate from the tobacco. Water is vaporized when the tobacco burns, then as the vapor is drawn up the cooler pipe stem it condenses out to a liquid. Some tobaccos will do this no matter what -- almost any will do it if smoked too fast. (I know this b/c I tend to puff like the boiler on an express locomotive.)

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    Schmitz, you never lived until you've smoked a big ol bowl of Gawith Hoggarth Brown Irish X in a 9 foot "tobacco" bong !
    You might not live long after that either.....

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    One irrational practice I have: if a smoke goes out too often, I will cut myself off of using a tamp for the next smoke or 2. Hello, my name is Ryan, and I am a serial over-tamper.

    I tamp with my fingers. I find that I tamp gentler and less often when I risk burning myself.

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    How about, "You haven't smoked properly unless it all burns down to white ash." Crematory operators tell the same lie.

    BTW, I'm not a badass, I'm just socially awkward. – BillyZoom

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    Like you lex i too puff like an old steam engine often getting tongue bite/burn. I have since slowed down and getting more flavour from the tobacco. As for old wives tales and querks for smoking i haven't yet came across any. As for the picture your all talking of i'll give it a miss thanks hahahaha

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    I agree with unclearthur about the aromatics, especially the heavily flavored ones. When I first started, people really encouraged those as "beginner" tobacco. Very bad idea. Many of them burn wet, taste horrible, and cause far too much tongue burn for someone who doesn't know what they're doing. But, to each his own, I just prefer tobacco to taste like tobacco.

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    Hear! Hear! kiltedchaplain.
    I don't put cherry juice on my tobacco, and I don't put tobacco juice on my cherries.

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    Many of them burn wet, taste horrible, and cause far too much tongue burn for someone who doesn't know what they're doing.

    It does serve one purpose, it weeds out the faint-hearted. If someone gets through that crap and still wants to keep smoking, they're obviously a born pipe smoker.

    "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
    -- Thomas Jefferson

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    Here's one I don't buy into.

    A pipe must rest after each smoke.

    I believe the pipe will let you know when it needs to rest.

    
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