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Some time ago, I was warned not to smoke straight perique
As Recent as last week phage74 said
| phage74 |
Submitted on 2009/08/08 at 5:53am
Keep him away from perique. |
Well as usual I just did not listen.
From what I understand the results were what I hear from people who eat Magic Mushrooms………
Any way I experienced some sort of Time Travel, Back to the Future and met this gentleman
I just cant remember if this is Python’s Great, Great Grand Father or Python 60 years from now.
But you can see the definite resemblance
I hear or read about other men being harrased about:
- where they are allowed to smoke in the house
- the wife, significant other or children objecting to tobacco smells (seems to be usually latakia)
- spending too much money on pipes
- and a host of other complaints relating to pipe smoking
I am blessed, my wife only has one objection
MY BREATHING
In days of old when men were bold
And toilet paper wasn’t invented
They wiped their a** with razor grass
And they were quite contented
Song by the “Might Sparrow” Calypso King of the world http://www.mightysparrow.com/
Razor Grass: This is a 6′ or 7′ grass that grows wild in the tropics. It inflicts cuts like paper cuts, but deeper and more painful. As Boys there would be challenges to run through this with out shoes and wearing only short pants.
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But more relevant to us was that back then Dunhill used to put out a nice little sampler, with an assortment of about 6 or 8 tins of their most popular blends.
The Tins were miniatures of the actual tins sold. They each hell about a ½ oz or less. Think of them as the mini bottles like they have on Aircraft or Mini Bars in Hotel Rooms.
Wouldn’t it be nice if the Tobacco Companies did the same thing today?
Here is the Dunhill Brochure from that era.
I only discover Latakia about 2 months ago, and I have become a Latakia Junkie……..
Please don’t try to save me
I found this Tin of Orlik today.
You see the date August 2002, and the rusty can from the pics.
But because the contents were wrapped in cellophane, the tobacco is perfect even though it was opened years ago. It did not even need Rehydrating.
HOW TO:
As I open a new tin of baccy, I carefully lift out the entire contents in its original wrapper. I normally use two standard cutlery knives (blunt and dull) to prize out the original contents.
Then I line the inside of the tin with normal cellophane wrap from kitchen. Leaving enough to fold over as shown in movie above.
Then reinsert the baccy in its original wrapper on top the new cellophane lining.
It also has the added benefit of keeping the baccy in place, especially ½ used tins, if you carry them around in your pocket etc.
NOTE, I wont apologize for my lack of clothing, It 2:00 am and I am sitting on an open deck, and I am sweating
Actually my wife says she is my only friend as no one else can put up with me.
Now Cathy and her significant other Robert, own a beach house, that we often spend weekends at.
Sometime Cathy and I will go up a day or two before the others and we are there alone. It make people wonder but as neither my wife or Robert object, who gives a dam.
Any way tomorrow is Cathy’s Birthday, she is the easiest woman to buy presents for as she will smoke anything from Captain Black to Copes Escudo. If only all women were so easy to please.
But here is the big thing, I just called Cathy and told her that we only had a few hours to get up to any hanky panky that we had missed out on before when we were unchaperoned at the beach house.
She obviously wanted to know why.
So I told her, that as she was aware I don’t have many scruples, but one of my strict rules was that I would only hit on women between 16 to 60. So she has until midnight to take me up on my offer.
Here is a funny story about English Tobacco.
I always loved the smell of it, but every time I tried to smoke it (Latakia seemed to be the offender) I got terrible hiccups that lasted hours.
About 6 weeks ago, I was giving a friend about 8 tins of Dunhill, which were unopened and ranged from 6 to 9 yrs old. I was telling her how the latakia affected me.
She proceeded to open an Early Morning Pipe Tin, and the Tarry Aroma got the better of me and I tried a bowlful telling her that she would see hiccups come on.
To my surprise, I did not get hiccup attack.
I had already given her the tobacco and so I could not take it back.
I rushed home to order some on the internet. To my dismay Dunhill was no longer available.
I ordered S&G Squadron Leader and Skiff and it was love at first puff and no Hiccups.
I have now gone Latakia / Oriental crazy, thrown out all my Aromatic Rubbish, Enjoy my pipes more and can smoke more in a day, with out my tongue feeling like an neglected outhouse.
I live in the Caribbean, so all pipe and tobacco purchases are internet, shipped to Miami then shipped to Trinidad. I have to pay Duties & Taxes again.
But with my new found love, I have being buying S&G to cellar, I currently have about a years supply of S&G (SQ, Commonwealth, Skiff, Balkan Flake). I have depleted Payless Pipes stock in these.
I have also bought various (10 Tins) of McLelland and GL Pease to try. So far the only one I actually smoked was Frog Morton on the Bayou. SUPER STUFF
Not many people smoke pipes here, I only know about 4 people. They Think Captain Black is Good Stuff.
I am like a recently converted sinner, and trying to convert them and push English Baccy down their pipes.
Hope you enjoyed this babble
Try S&G Balkan Flake, its fantastic
I live in Trinidad and Tobago, the most southernly island in the Caribbean with a population of about 1.4 million people.
There probably are not more than a dozen or so pipe smokers, and the knowledge of pipes and tobaccos is extremely limited.
The few people that sell pipes and tobaccos, know nothing about them.
For example
1) They buy basket pipes, call them high grade and sell them for around US$100. I think the arrive at the price based on the amount of Very Conspicuous Fills. About $10 per fill
2) They think Captain Black and Borkum Riff are the best. These sell for over US$10.00 per 1.5 ounce pack. And even this has problems for pipe smokers as they are often out of stock for 3 to 6 months.
I was lucky that my father was a pipe smoker and knew something about Pipes and Tobaccos. His favorite tobacco was Copes Escudo, so he was at least more informed than the other philistines.
I was also lucky that I lived in LA / Hollywood area for a year, and I became friendly with Jerry Lustig, who taught me a lot and Introduced me to more knowledge people at the South West Pipe and Cigar Club (Joel Farr, Steve Johnson) who were a wealth of knowledge.
Unfortunately, I now live back amongst the heathens, and I do my best to educate the few. But when I talk about P&T, I can see the look of “Lets humor him” on their faces.
Thankfully, I have the Internet for ordering P&T, and other sources of information such as P&T Magazine.
I came across this site about 2 weeks ago and thought, it would be a great avenue to make some P&T friends, and get some invaluable knowledge from people like yourselves.
“No actually that a lie, I just come here to look at the pipe smoking babes”
But as the new boy on the block, I’ll be pestering you good folks with lots of questions.
John
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