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***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
On the Fifth Day Of Christmas, lunch in the castle with a couple of friends from NC, holidaying here in Ludlow. Then G&H Rum Twist in the Brillani outsize cutty. With stout. Colder again today. I think we may wake to some overnight snow tomorrow.- MisterBadger
- Post #3,790
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
I have long considered doing this, but fear to do so lest I happen upon "The Lost Chord" or Dr. Jekyll formula that works magic but alas! proves unrepeatable.- MisterBadger
- Post #3,789
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Any Love For The Boer Shape? Show Them Here!
Never seen one of these. All the cartoons of Boers I've seen (and a cartoon Boer in Victorian Britain is almost inseparable from his pipe) show them smoking Hungarians/Oom Pauls. Never seen any of a Boer smoking what appeared to be an upside-down pot, either. I wonder how the name stuck...- MisterBadger
- Post #37
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
On the Fourth Day Of Christmas... Persevering with the Rattray's Sterling Flake, this time in a Kiplay bent briar with horn stem and orific bit. Yes, quite a decent smoke, predominant toffee notes under a citrus tang, more than enough nictone to remind you you've had a smoke, but I find myself...- MisterBadger
- Post #3,624
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What's Wrong With You Pagan Idol Worshippers?
I think it's OK with the Supreme Being if you don't pray to the tree or otherwise worship it, like those guys Jeremiah was talking about. But that's just my personal view. To avoid further contention, I'll just sign off with an anodyne: "Season's Greetings" :)- MisterBadger
- Post #46
- Forum: General Discussion
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Cleaning up estates
What Sigmund said. Show us some pics.- MisterBadger
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
@RavenBlack You're not the only one... Dark Plug and Black Irish XXX do that for me. Especially when smoked in a clay. Tastes and smells can be so reconnective to the personal past: black powder smoke, woodsmoke, oiled steel, canvas, young grass and the smell of stables all have simlar effects...- MisterBadger
- Post #3,611
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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A Little Humor for the Day 2025
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- Forum: General Discussion
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A Little Humor for the Day 2025
Ah, the cultural assumptions one makes, sometimes... that last post of mine will have fallen flat with 95% of the readership :-/- MisterBadger
- Post #2,630
- Forum: General Discussion
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Minimal Happiness Requirements?
- Well, maybe: once a year, the true minimalist pipe smoker gets out his kiseru and loads up with a pinch of kizami and composes a haiku whilst watching the cherry blossoms fall... OK, maybe not :)- MisterBadger
- Post #88
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Dating Clay Pipes
Tonquin and deertongue and kinnickinnick (bearberry) were all known as tobacco additives in 17thC England by then, and N. rustica as well as N. tabacum, and I've also come across something called 'crocus' as a first-class expensive tobacco which, if you look at the pistils of a saffron crocus...- MisterBadger
- Post #6
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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Dating Clay Pipes
...the garden was a garden then, and I also wonder what the smoker of that pipe was growing there. And what he liked to smoke in that pipe. And what he considered the best kind of feather for cleaning his pipes. And what he thought of the 1688 Revolution and the Protestant Suceession. And the...- MisterBadger
- Post #5
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
Adrift in the "Daft Days" between Christmas Day and New Year, when those of us blessed with leisure are apt to forget what day it is 😁 A post-breakfast smoke of Rattray's Sterling Flake, in a Rattray's Old Perth cutty, with black coffee and a tot of Wood's "100" Navy rum. I'm finding the...- MisterBadger
- Post #3,479
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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A Little Humor for the Day 2025
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- Post #2,620
- Forum: General Discussion
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Pipe Identification
That's lovely. I know Hardcastle made a 'Perfecto' range of pipes but I've never seen the name inside a cartouche, like yours, before. If it *is* a Hardcastle I'd also expect to see a letter H, with concave uprights, on the stem.- MisterBadger
- Post #8
- Forum: Pipe Talk