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  1. georged

    1953 Dunhill #59 Tanshell --- Back From the Dead

    The shape 59 is one of Dunhill's all-time stars in popularity terms---a benchmark for medium sized billiards---and patent-era Tanshells are highly prized because of their rarity (only two years were made), and because they have a deep & craggy Shell-like blast. Meaning they are worth bringing...
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    Collectible Pipes Replaced Stems

    Did you know that Kevin has an army of bot-droid-observer-creatures that keep track of how long it's been since your last board visit, and tap you on the shoulder (electronically) when they get impatient? Me neither. rotf To keep them from escalating the matter and coming to my door RoboCop...
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    I Took One for the Team

    That's a fantastically good idea. Take a chance on him. Why not? It's time that people with obvious mental problems are given the most critical safety-related jobs in the world. As a statement of Trust and Belief in their character and reliability... ESPECIALLY when they are compulsive...
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    2024 Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show

    Tell her that seeing all the pipes on tables makes you think of jewelry stores and their racks and cases of diamonds and rings and necklaces, and South Pacific luxury vacations, and All Things Expensively Romantic. And especially her. Standing in the moonlight just so, the moonlight glinting...
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    School me on Schooling Methods

    I wasn't referring to formal research.
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    School me on Schooling Methods

    I suppose. Seems a lot like setting an old-school vinyl record player on infinite repeat and calling it entertainment, though.
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    School me on Schooling Methods

    I was referring to things conceptually, with no one specifically in mind. Which is the rapidly increasing expectation by people in general---though the younger they are the more pronounced the tendency---to view a tray of "fact like" information chunks as knowledge, and all that's required to...
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    School me on Schooling Methods

    The picture is much bigger than that. There's a rapidly increasing percentage of the population who grew up with search engines who haven't a clue how to do actual research. "Ask and it appears before you" is to knowledge what ordering from a menu is to cooking. All manner of skills aren't...
  9. georged

    School me on Schooling Methods

    Now that's funny rat thar ^^^^ rotf
  10. georged

    School me on Schooling Methods

    I hate looking stuff up---the Internet and search engines make that so much more dreary than when you had to dig through a warehouse of those heavy paper things on shelves as far as you could see---but I still want to know it, right? If other people do the work of finding the information...
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    Beware Your Electric Tootbrush

    Huh??? You're suggesting that people forced to live hand-to-mouth and one day at a time by consuming products and services controlled and distributed by a small number of trillion-dollar corporate entities would be easier to control and exploit than a population of self-sufficient, industrious...
  12. georged

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Whoever bought it better like it as-is, too. The work required to make a correct Short + Fat + Bent replacement stem is insane.
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    Beware Your Electric Tootbrush

    Throughout history, regardless of where on the "right/left" spectrum they fell---from medieval kings and Industrial Revolution robber barons, to the 20th century's Soviet Union and North Korea---the People In Charge relied on information to become strong, establish themselves, and remain in...
  14. georged

    Apologies

    It's always the subtle mistakes that give 'em away... Mr. Bulldog is not an Irishman at all, he's an AUSSIE trying to stir shit between Ireland and England because he's still all touchy about 'em dumping his great great great grandad on a rock on the other side of the world 200 years ago hoping...
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    Apologies

    Um... There's a HUGE difference between multiple-draft, proofread & edited manuscripts and seat of the pants back-and-forth in realtime between guys sitting at keyboards. :rolleyes: