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Show Us Your Neerup/P. Jeppesen Pipes!
Absolutely love Neerups. I'm surprised I only have two, but the finishes on both are magic. They both smoke great but the apple, for some reason, is the best smoking pipe I have. It seems not to matter what you put in it, it's delicious. Not an expensive pipe or anything, I think just luck...- stearmandriver
- Post #31
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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How Hard is it to Burnout a Pipe?
I remember a thread on one of the forums years ago about a guy that set out on a mission to burn out a pipe to see how long it took. It was a cob, so nowhere near as tough as a briar. He smoked that pipe only for seriously like a year straight and couldn't burn it out. If I remember right he...- stearmandriver
- Post #22
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Exhaust Fan For New Smoking Room?
I have a small study at ground level in our home, and while I usually smoke a pipe outside, it is nice to be able to sit at the desk at night with a pipe sometimes. I go the window fan route, a single fan leaned against the screen to blow out. I usually smoke Latakia blends and only one time...- stearmandriver
- Post #37
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine
But the resulting organism, if it has the desired traits, has the very same genetic structure as if that trait were achieved via hybridization. Right? There is no fundamental difference in genetic material between a human being and a potato, is there? Just the order in which it's put...- stearmandriver
- Post #119
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine
That's an inaccurate definition, is the point. Any technique for modifying the traits of an organism is genetic modification, because the genetic material is where all these traits are encoded. Take corn again: whether you selectively breed it over thousands of generations for bigger cobs, or...- stearmandriver
- Post #113
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine
They definitely aren't. I've been keeping bees for a while. The problem that they CAN create is over spray of gluphosate on Roundup ready crops tends to kill roadside weeds. This affects the butterflies more than the honey bees. It also doesn't happen all that often because, well, do you...- stearmandriver
- Post #111
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine
This is an old resurrected thread, so a context review is in order before I respond: I was explaining that almost nothing humans eat today is a result of natural selection, but it has in fact all been genetically modified by us, via hybridization / selective breeding, mutagenesis, now...- stearmandriver
- Post #109
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Youth!
Every generation finds it in vogue to bash the next. As an example: how many of you guys know how to navigate with a sextant, even if you're sailors or outdoorsmen? There are past generations that would have looked witheringly at you for this lack of knowledge; hell, I know how to do it and...- stearmandriver
- Post #9
- Forum: General Discussion
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Sweet Latakia Blend Recommendations
Plum Pudding - if it's not gone forever. Peretti Midnight is a great stand-in for Frog Morton; I only tried it recently but it strikes me as what Frog Morton was trying to be... I no longer miss FM. Peretti Cambridge Flake for something a little more restrained.- stearmandriver
- Post #23
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe
I think I already said it 😉. You're talking incredibly minor differences in force, compared to local forces. And again, if these forces affected humans, then the NEW moon, not the full moon, would be when they're aligned at their maximum... And no one sees weird behavior and goes, "damn, must...- stearmandriver
- Post #49
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe
I know absolutely nothing about dowsing, but I'm really pretty sure that tidal forces (the gravitational pull of the sun and moon) have roughly zero effect on the movement of sap in a tree. There are much more locally powerful forces at work, like capillary action. I don't see tree leaves wilt...- stearmandriver
- Post #44
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe
No but I know how tidal forces work, and they're much more significant under the conditions I mentioned. Just reference your local tide tables, you'll see what I mean. Noon under the new moon, when the sun and moon's gravitational pulls are aligned straight overhead, vs during a full moon...- stearmandriver
- Post #31
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Ruminations on the Soul of a Pipe
If this is true then they're doing it wrong. Noon during the day of the new moon would be even more effective. Probably seen as less poetic though. 😁- stearmandriver
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Talk
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Fired up Grandpa's Pipe For the First Time...
I do like those old paneled pipes... Really nice! Excellent way to remember and connect with your grandfather. Don't sweat relights. They'll always be required and they're harmless. Puffing hard to try to keep it constantly lit, now that isn't harmless; ruins the flavor and burns your mouth...- stearmandriver
- Post #16
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Favorite Whole Album
Dream Theater, "Images and Words"- stearmandriver
- Post #50
- Forum: General Discussion