Recent content by anantaandroscoggin

I have four Road Town pipes, and I have to admit that I've not experienced this chemical taste from any of them.

Knew a guy who liked the phrase, "Just break the horns off, and chase it past the fire a couple of times."

You left off the final "er" there, it's "more betterer" to those in the know(nothing)s.

I'm still trying to find a match for the Vottis Pipe Shop's (Schenectady NY) English blend. Ten Russians was only part-way there for me.

I figure that if the online Pipe retailers are selling a particular blend of bagged tobacco to their pipe-smoking customers, then it's likely it was blended originally more for the pipe smoker, and I shouldn't mind that someone local (we have no Maine tobacconists) happens to carry the stuff...

A couple of times, I was able to find a neoprene "O-Ring" close enough in size that I could stretch it on to the thing I needed to seal.

I'm surprised that anybody would bother to go trapping for porcupines in this day and age. That's one thing my own grandfather taught me, to trap porcupine, chain your trap at the bottom of a tree, and then pee on the tree above the trap is to bait it. I never bothered to try it out myself...

Now I'm confused. I had gotten the impression that dottle is the remaining unburned (perhaps partly charred, perhaps soggy) tobacco left behind when the smoker lets the pipe go out at the end of a pipeful. Now, I'm wondering if dottle is instead the charred but not yet burned up layer between...

Sounds like the mixture they cooked up in the novel (and later movie) No Time for Sergeants.

Make sure to shake up/roll the jar from time to time to help spread the deliciousness throughout the jar. It's interesting, the subtle changes to the taste that you discover each time you fill a bowl from these kinds of jar. I do one jar for Latakia-bearing blends, and and one jar labeled "The...

Somehow I'm reminded of how George Jetson would occasionally bitch about his three hour work week.

Your signature quotation somehow has me reminded of those scenes where Morticia Addams asks a visitor if they minded if she smoked, and then proceeds to fold her arms and do so sans any kind of tobacco.

I used to watch 77 Sunset Strip first run along with my grandfather. I especially remember since one of the years it was on, granddad turned 77 and we kids would chant the title song bit sometimes when referencing him that year. It was my other grandfather who smoked a pipe,though.

Have you done a quick search on scribed.com ?

Seems to me that several of the characters on Tugboat Annie (I believe starring Marjorie Main) [sp?] were often puffing on their pipes.