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  1. Oddball

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    In the Spirit of Christmas, I think we should keep this a very inclusive thread and event each year. That being said, my match better bring the heat, I want it to have freight shipping rates applied... I'm talking real barump a dump dump. Merry Christmas you puffing partridges!!!
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    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Nah @mikethompson , just match me with the arms dealer goon or one of those McClelland's only givers and put whatever deals you want out there...
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    Opening A Tin? Show Us!

    At the October Pipe club we did the "What was your first favorite blend?" discussion. I said Skiff for my Balkan/English blend. One of the members said he has some really old tins in a drawer I could just have. So he brought me seven! I gave three out at the December Pipe club but popped one of...
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    TAD Acquisitions 2025

    Final TAD of the year... 4 x Fires on the Levee 3 x G.L. Pease Silver Jubilee 4 times pre 1995 Sam Gawith Skiff A 2010 Hearth and Home Anniversary Kake A 2017 Atleys No. 44 A 2006 Caravan. I think I will pop a Skiff first...
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    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    I feel like my PMSS 2025 package got here so long ago that I deserve another match and a new package before 12/25. @mikethompson
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    G.L. Pease: Silver Jubilee

    I got three at my local. I love that there is still a company around that does things like small batch or one offs. Maybe it does lead to some amounts of hype but as an enthusiast for the hobby, I welcome hype... it's more fun than the alternatives.
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    Feed my PAD please

    Same as skydog on Briarworks. I have Bruno Nuttens and it's really really nice
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    Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Tobacco - Restock purchases

    All those Virginia's taste the same to me. Sweet and Steamy. It's not a bad thing, more of a trademark or signature flavor. For me, I typically pick one that adds to that VA flavor in ways I like.. That being said, I smoke mostly the Sam Gawith blends so my words probably don't apply as heavy to...
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    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Red Eye Gravy is just coffee and country ham fat with a smidge, and I mean smidge of brown sugar.. It takes things like grits and egg to the next most gooder level. I'll try and remember to take a pic this year and send it along.
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    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Home cured Country Ham on Xmas Morning... All the good stuff, red eye gravy, homemade biscuits, hashbrowns, followed by bourbon boiled custard and a few lines of crushed blood pressure medicine...
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    TAD Acquisitions 2025

    Someone is waaaaay off. It's like FVF and a hint of Latakia with a Scotch Whiskey topping that is pleasant. I enjoy it.
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    Jim's GLP Silver Jubilee 25th Anniversary Review.

    Thanks Jim, I have my 3 tins on reserve at the local B&M.