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  1. whitebriar

    What's Your First Pipe Purchase of the New Year?

    this year has seen a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Lestrade Rustic find a spot on my desk-- waited years before i finally pulled the trigger--wish i hadn't waited--
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    ***What Are You Smoking? February 2020.***

    last bowl of the month--Morley's Best in a Peterson LeStrade rustic--
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    What/Who Influenced You to Start Pipe Smoking?

    my grandfather was my first influence toward pipe smoking-- but, i suppose the main influence was all the old guys sitting in the barbershop, smokin' their pipes and tellin' war stories-- i'd pick up a magazine and pretend to read, but really i was listening to all the old men gettin' my...
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    Most Underrated Tobaccos

    Seldom do i see Habana Daydream mentioned..
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    Favorite Cornell & Diehl Blends?

    Old joe krantz Haunted bookshop Big n Burley Morleys best These are my favorites..they now have 5 years in the glass and are much smoother, sweeter and refined than when they were younger.. Habana daydream is another that MAY possibly work it's way into fave status.. Bayou nights also is in...
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    Haunted Bookshop.....help

    same house; different blend--i have just received a pound of OJK that is totally different than all my earlier purchases--i thought maybe the vendor sent the wrong tobacco--now i wonder-- for the record i have noted slight differences in Haunted Bookshop also
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    Cornell & Diehl - Big n' Burley --> Question

    i'm no chemist, nor a blender---but i am now smoking BnB, Old Joe, Morley's Best and Haunted Bookshop; all of these are now six years old---i can truthfully say that these blends have aged well, become sweeter, melded and in all aspects become much superior in every way--the least improvement...
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    Do You Find Yourself Gravitating Toward 'Simpler' Tobaccos?

    Burley based all day long..B&B and Morley's Best provide what I need..
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    Nicotine Addiction For Non Inhalers?

    i stopped inhaling over 40 years ago, but occasionally i still get an urge to drag in a deep lung full--i have been able to resist the temptation all these years, but i suspect that urge is the remnant of some form of addiction
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    Just Had A Biopsy

    nothin' works like askin' for help from the top--nothin' lame there-- good luck--
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    Whats Everyones Favorite Burley Or Burley mix blends

    Big & Burley and/or Morley's Best
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    Burly's

    Big & Burley has worked it's way to the top of my favorite list Morley's Best is close on it's heels 'Old Joe' and Haunted Bookshop round out my rotation
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    Veterans appreciation

    11/11 -- a day for remembrance--thanks folks--
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    Why did you start smoking a pipe?

    all the old geezers smoke pipes when i was a kid--i wanted to be like them--i'm still trying--