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  1. mso489

    Nothing Could Go Wrong Here.....

    Yeah, I'm waiting for Jimmy Hoffa to thaw and wake up. He's got some explaining to do. Did you see DeNiro in "The Irishman"?
  2. mso489

    Hello from Italy

    Hey from central North Carolina, U.S. I enjoy various pipe tobacco genres including English, especially with a burley base or burley as a condiment, as well as a variety of other burley blends and single leaf, and Va. and Virginia Perique. But burley is my favorite. Welcome aboard.
  3. mso489

    Order size

    I buy more blends than I smoke, seldom more than a tin or two. Even a tin of blend I love can last for months smoked in rotation. I don't pine after great blends I can't get. Frog Morton Cellar was bliss, but I'm not going to spend $150 for it. There are too many exciting blends to try, and...
  4. mso489

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

    C&D Tuggle Hall, a unique English blend of Latakia, white burley, and Perique, a real change of pace, in an Austrian pipe my sister bought me from Austria, a Kemperling bent Rhodesian, smooth, in a light chestnut stain with a bead line and thin silver-colored band. The pipe has a good big...
  5. mso489

    Caminetto Ascorti Radice First Period Excellence Flame

    Those are some fine looking pipes. The one in the original post has magnum scale, and I especially like the plateau on the shank, and the unique freehand interpretation. When freehand pipes are done well they have an admirable improvisational quality. That's why the cheapies done on...
  6. mso489

    Nothing Could Go Wrong Here.....

    I heard the worm story on radio, but I can't be sure of the details. As I recall. they did come back to life and did reproduce, but none of the worms lasted long. They arrived in a different world with different predators and different viruses and bacteria, so I suspect they were not adapted...
  7. mso489

    R.I.P Randy Meisner

    I don't know any of the Eagles history nor Meisner's biography, but rock musicians touring is a hard life that probably ages most participants prematurely. I think it is probably fun for about six months, and then it is a grind. But if you fall out of step with the commercial music business...
  8. mso489

    I Don’t Just Repair Pipes.

    That is some straight up serious know-how. Bravo.
  9. mso489

    Another pipe dedication question.

    A small percentage of people are gifted with exquisite taste senses which would justify designating blends in pipes by genre. I would think jiminks, our master reviewer would fall in that category. He can discern five or six or more tastes, and sometimes that is only for one tobacco in a...
  10. mso489

    End of an Era: John Dengler Closes

    What a great bit of breaking news. A great tobacco shop is like a great restaurant, a treasure to be cultivated and sustained. Congratulations on having it taken up by a new owner. That is incredible. All best luck to the new management and pipe smokers in and around St. Charles.
  11. mso489

    Saratoga NY Local Event

    Still, a chance to smoke a newly rolled cigar is not to be missed. I'd step right up. Enthusiasm might supplant a so-so cigar. I once got a freebie cigar at an event, and it was excellent, or I thought it was. My wife and I went to the Saratoga Springs track which is beautiful, "racing under...
  12. mso489

    On the Other Side Now

    Sometimes I have chosen family over smoking. I was a non-smoker all through my growing up years, but I never suggested my dad quit smoking his pipe because it was just part of who he was. He finally quit at age 65 to take a job at a non-smoking campus, but I had nothing to do with his...
  13. mso489

    Microwave

    I get all the drying I need leaving a few bowls of a blend in a ceramic bowl. Nuking it seems unnecessary.
  14. mso489

    1983 Ashton

    What a nifty find. I wonder if the Ashton people would trade you a new one for one of the first ones. Though you might not want to make that deal. I've always admired Ashtons, nicely crafted with some pizzazz in the style.
  15. mso489

    Dumpster Diving

    It's the labor of finding the right takers for so much surplus from homes. I inherited large stacks of folded fabric from my late wife. She had a plan for them, but I didn't. I finally placed them with a local quilting group, but it took some time. I gave quantities of jewelry to her friends...
  16. mso489

    Hello from River Valley Arkansas

    Hey from central North Carolina. Eons ago, I drove from N.C. to Little Rock to visit my college friend who was on the paper there before moving on to a larger paper in Lexington, Ky., now retired to where he grew up in St. Louis, Mo. I didn't see much of Little Rock since we were watching the...
  17. mso489

    Dumpster Diving

    When I met my Navy minesweeper after flying to the Philippines and bussing from Clark Air Force base to Subic Bay, to leave the next day for Vietnam, being new aboard, I was immediately assigned to haul bags to the dumpster. When I swung open the big dumpster door, to my amazement there was a...
  18. mso489

    Thought Food

    I call it the burden of skepticism. We're all pretty well trained to doubt all advertising until it is proven (at maximum) slightly true. All emails, broadcasting, wifi, cable/satellite, snail mail, and door-to-door solicitations are to be regarded as scams until proven otherwise, and usually...
  19. mso489

    Found An Old Folding-Knife Friend

    Yeah, I have to be organized about whatever I regularly carry in my pockets. I'm afraid the rest of my possessions are in some disarray, but my pockets are my office, so I am compulsive about keeping everything in its place.
  20. mso489

    Found An Old Folding-Knife Friend

    I haven't carried the Old Bear on a daily basis yet, though I like its sturdiness and the lock mechanism. I've carried the Opinel when I lost my Case, and found it better than I expected. My Old Bear knife is just a little better version of its brand than my Opinel, so I'd probably choose it...
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