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    G&H Dark Birdseye Changed?

    I've had Dark Flake Aromatic and, as I mentioned above, I got a sample from Mars that's Dark Flake Licorice. I'm more inclined towards non-aromatics but I think that the Licorice may replace the plain Dark Flake. Dark Flake Aro. is good though too and I've ordered that along with the plain in...
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    G&H Dark Birdseye Changed?

    Well, I've been smoking this DBE and I'd say it's definitely what I remember from ye olden tymes. Good stuff. I like the shag styles of tobacco as they're easy to load and smoke. I've got 500g of Kendal Dark from Mars and an ounce of Kentucky from SP as well along with the DBE. I'm probably...
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    What Are Your Favorite Nicotine Bombs?

    Thanks.
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    G&H Dark Birdseye Changed?

    I remember the tobacco as being darker, reddish dark brown and long and stringy. At the least, I think the cut may have changed. Right now I'm smoking a bit of Kendal Flake that I got from Smoking Pipes and it's really nice. It's a brighter tobacco than I normally smoke and I can tell that I'm...
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    G&H Dark Birdseye Changed?

    Maybe I'm misremembering that aspect of it then. 2002 was around the time I first started smoking G&H tobaccos almost exclusively. The oldest G&H tobacco I still have around from that period is a mason jar of one of their latakia blends. Anyway, I'll eventually get around to trying it and...
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    What Are Your Favorite Nicotine Bombs?

    Is there somewhere online that you can buy Cotton Boll Twist (as pipe tobacco)? I'd always thought of it, when I saw it in stores as a kid, as a twist chewing tobacco but I suppose, like the G&H twists historically did, it can do double duty.
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    G&H Dark Birdseye Changed?

    I smoked Dark Birdseye from G&H years ago and I smoke tobacco from that company almost exclusively. I hadn't had DBE in quit a few years and decided to include an ounce in an order from Smoking Pipes. I got the order today and it doesn't look anything like what I remember. I remember a dark...
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    Adjust the flame on a Zippo?

    OK I cleaned the lighter up and doing so has improved it quite a bit. It now lights on the first strike of the wheel. I also put Vaseline on it before sticking it back in its case. However, I'm still getting a crazy explosion on the first light that now dies down to a more reasonable flame and...
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    Adjust the flame on a Zippo?

    Actually, it's an old lighter and, one other thing I forgot to mention is that, it can be very finicky when it come to igniting as well. In spite of what seems like good spark, I'll get one or two lights out of it and then struggle to get it to light again and, when it does light, it's like a...
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    Adjust the flame on a Zippo?

    Is there any way to adjust the flame on a Zippo pipe lighter? I've tried trimming the wick to no avail. The flame is way too much and dangerous in the wind and even worse after filling it.
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    Semois Plugs?

    Thanks for that link. That's exactly what I was thinking of. Pretty cool.
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    Semois Plugs?

    It is good stuff and the first time I've had it. Is there some relationship between semois and caporal (the tobacco that was in the Gauliosis and Gitanes cigarettes)? From what I remember of caporal, and I had it in both pipe and cigarette forms years ago, there seems to be a kind of earthiness...
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    Semois Plugs?

    You know, that reminds me now of an illustration I once saw in a book on the life of some 19th C. artist. I can't remember now who it was, but it showed a picture of the artist on a tandem bike and he had a cigar holder in the shape of a pipe (probably a meerschaum cigar holder) and cigar...
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    Semois Plugs?

    I bought some semois from Smoking Pipes recently and happened to go to the website listed on the packet today. If you look at one of the pipe tobacco PDFs at the link you'll see "semois plugs" sold in boxes of 20. How are these smoked? Are they cut up and rubbed out like plugs you'd get from SG...
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    Smoking Restrictions in WA State

    " You know, I'd kind of like that to happen to me: "Am I anywhere near 20 feet of business door, you busy body ****" Yeah, I can see and feel it now.
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    Smoking Restrictions in WA State

    Yep, I'm actually on the east side but the same here too. In fact, I need to get some seeds started and take advantage of an extra 1/2 to 1 month of growth or an earlier bloom.
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    Smoking Restrictions in WA State

    Warren, thanks for that suggestion. I gave the state RCW a cursory look and, if I'm reading it right, getting out of my car in a supermarket parking lot and smoking up to within 25 feet of the store before I go in or smoking along the local bike trail as I walk my cats should be alright. Those...
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    Smoking Restrictions in WA State

    For those living in WA, what are the public restrictions on smoking? I noticed in an old thread someone commented along the lines of "whatever you do, don't smoke in public". It's not clear to me if he was just saying that people here are just so intolerant of even seeing people smoking in...
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    alt.smokers.pipes

    "There's a wealth of great information in there, especially in the posts up to around 2006 or so. If you know what you're looking for, you can find some really obscure and useful information that you won't find anywhere else." Very true. Some very interesting discussions on the history of...
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    alt.smokers.pipes

    I'm curious how many of you may have frequented the Usenet newsgroup? It's been years since I last fired up XNews and I've no idea if the group is still active.
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