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  1. mso489

    Whelks

    I'm glad to learn what whelks are. I had snails in Paris, along with an exuberant variety of seafood, and they were good. But I'll watch for whelks if we ever eat Portuguese. I just needed to eat, in Paris, but my wife got us to Bowfingers, a topnotch restaurant, for my first meal in Paris...
  2. mso489

    Found An Old Folding-Knife Friend

    One time we (my wife and I) were going to an event where there was a security check point at the entrance. We saw this well in advance, so she held our place in line, and I went out of the mainstream of traffic and found a landscaped plant, and buried my pocket knife in the mulch at its base...
  3. mso489

    American Soldier Jumps Over to N. Korea..

    That poor horse.
  4. mso489

    Sinéad O'Connor Bows Out Aged Just 56.

    Madness has always had a certain appeal in artists. it reveals core passions and a certain kind of truth. I always feel like it is exploitative, but like a car accident, I sometimes gawk with the crowd. July Garland on TV in her later career, the poet Sylvia Plath throughout her career...
  5. mso489

    American Soldier Jumps Over to N. Korea..

    This young fellow has made a few of his worst decisions one after the other. One of the last young guys to be retrieved from North Korea was a tourist who stole a poster off the wall in some public place and came back on his death bed. I'm sure the Army went to to lengths to inform their...
  6. mso489

    Thread Topic Ideas

    How can I tell if my pipes love me? What's the worst blend you smoke regularly? Is smoking aromatics a sin? I forgot to label my jars; how can I tell what I'm smoking? I reamed my way through the bottom of my briar bowl; what's a good fix? I have a ton of tobacco by weight. Do I need more...
  7. mso489

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2023?***

    This evening I smoked two bowls in a row of Semois thick cut in two different MM cobs, a diplomat with a Forever stem and a special edition MM with an acrylic stem, a nose warmer. As most here know, Semois is a Belgium burley variant packed in foil blocks and shipped very dry, so you get a lot...
  8. mso489

    Smoking Pipes Dwindling New And Estate pipes

    I haven't noticed a downturn lately, although the estate market has shown fewer pipes over time, probably because of quicker turnover. Major brands still show hundreds or thousands of pipes on SP. I think some of the older artisans are slowing down, understandably, but new people seem to be...
  9. mso489

    Question about Peterson Nightcap

    I dove right in with Nightcap while it was still under the Dunhill label, though I think the same blenders are producing it despite the name change. It is higher nicotine, and I sat on the front porch at night and smoked a larger chambered pipe. I did get a little light headed, but I just...
  10. mso489

    Greetings from Kansas City, Missouri

    Hey from central North Carolina. I went to my last two years of college at University of Missouri for journalism, did an internship in Neosho, and have since been to St. Louis, up to the northeast corner of the state to Memphis, Mo., and various other places in Missouri. My wife grew up in...
  11. mso489

    Pipe Window Shopping, No Idle Threat

    Egg, you've got a point. I've ridden with several real drivers. I'm just a graduate of driver's ed, and avoiding accidents is my only intention, if not always my skill. So yes, the glories of a built to order high performance machine is one thing. However, a lot of these machines end up...
  12. mso489

    Anecdotes from beyond. What's your most compromising anecdote?

    The snarky rap on psychologists/psychiatrists is that they go into the field because they are trying to fix something in themselves. Probably in some cases. I think others are just good at listening to other peoples' problems and giving some light on the subject. I talked with a...
  13. mso489

    Pipe Window Shopping, No Idle Threat

    When you get into the stratosphere of prices the usual psychology does not apply. The use related to dollar value isn't at stake. It is the rarity and inaccessibility of the item or service that determines its appeal. It's as much the fact that few can afford it that make it valuable. Just...
  14. mso489

    Pipe Window Shopping, No Idle Threat

    I guess the artisan on that eight thousand dollar calabash knows what some people will pay, so I'll trust his judgement. Asked to guess a price on that piece, I think I'd be more in the $700 to $800 range, but I'm not a high-end pipe guy. I learn something every time I wander through the...
  15. mso489

    Pipe Window Shopping, No Idle Threat

    Window shopping sounds kind of feckless, like you look at things without much intent. But I'd think again in terms of pipe shopping. You have to look at lot just to have a reasonable idea of what's out there. Otherwise, you marry the first girl you kiss, as it were. Getting down to cases...
  16. mso489

    My Great Great Grandpappy

    I bet he did a lot of living in those 42 years.
  17. mso489

    Premium: A Quality to Ponder

    I admire Cornell & Diehl for their embracing burley as a base and blending tobacco, lifting it from the ranks of a sturdy over-the-counter leaf and base for aromatics to a leaf that can be base or condiment in premium blends. I've been a fan since they were in North Carolina at Morganton, and...
  18. mso489

    Eagle Scout

    Though I didn't stay with Scouting, I did stay with my subscription to Boys Life for years, which is a magazine very Boy Scout oriented. I think that encouraged me to follow up on some of the outdoor activities.
  19. mso489

    Sitter pipe

    I have sitters that perch on a little flat area at the bottom of the bowl or bowl and stem, but I have others that have broad flat bottoms that have fairly sturdy footing. A sturdy sitter is especially companionable. You never have to look for a place to prop it up, just any flat surface. My...
  20. mso489

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2023?***

    Newminster #306 English Oriental in a Ferndown "Reo" smooth, bent billiard with a Vulcanite Cumberland stem with silver band, carved by Les Wood and, I am told, finished by his wife Dolly. Busied around today writing and mailing some bills, taking two heavy jars of change to turn into paper...
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