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  1. mso489

    Jim's C&D Sun Bear Tupelo Review.

    Impressive review. Despite the absence of burley, I am tempted.
  2. mso489

    My Great Great Grandpappy

    He seems to have been doing pretty well. That is a formidable team of mules, well cared for and fed. Mule teams were trained in tandem and were highly coordinated to working together. It was no small matter to get that cooperation going, I bet he was proud of them. His dog seems to be right...
  3. mso489

    Eagle Scout

    My dad was an active Scout and learned a lot. I don't think he was Eagle, but he was the next level, maybe Life Scout? Among other things, it's a great culture of goal setting, organizing yourself to advance, and doing some good public service along the way. I didn't advance in Cub Scouts...
  4. mso489

    Random Question: History of Pipe Tobacco in the U.S.

    I grew up in a suburb immediately adjacent to the corporate city limits of Chicago on the commuter railroad, and right adjacent to the tracks was a pipe shop. I wish I knew the exact years of its operation. It was the Park Ridge Pipe Shop and had a resident artisan pipe carver and did...
  5. mso489

    Storm Over Lake Erie

    My most exciting weather event was riding out a typhoon in the South China Sea on a wooden-hulled round bottomed minesweeper. Ships get sent to sea in hurricanes and typhoons because remaining in port is even more hazardous. Our adventure was called a typhoon evasion, but I can't imagine we...
  6. mso489

    Essential or Not: What's Missing In Your Pipe Gear?

    Being the son of a guy who owned only one fully functioning pipe at a time and smoked only Granger from the foil pouch for all fifty years of his pipe smoking career, the one piece of pipe gear I lack might be austerity. I have the smoking jacket and the fez.
  7. mso489

    Storm Over Lake Erie

    I grew up not far from Lake Michigan, and the storms were dramatic, operatic. Now in the southeast, we get a lot of soaking rains that sort of slide slowly into place. Those Great Lake storms start with gales, progress to wind gusts, proceed through building cumulus clouds, and commence to...
  8. mso489

    Random Question: History of Pipe Tobacco in the U.S.

    Everton, you switch tenses in your original post. I think your golden age of the past was the 1950's and 1960's, and your golden age in terms of blenders, blends, variety, and cuts is today. My dad was an ardent all-day pipe smoker in the 50's and 60's, and he smoked only Granger from the foil...
  9. mso489

    Fake Sixteen Ivarsson and Bo Nord pipes.

    Yeah, maybe the pipe scam is just an interim "job" while the crooks hatch a really big draw-down at Fort Knox.
  10. mso489

    Sour PS LBF!!!

    If space isn't a problem, I'd just jar it up and assess it again in several years whenever you decide to try to smoke it. Be prepared to pitch it if it is still sour, but there's an even chance (I surmise) it will be fine. Be sure to label it clearly with a brief explanation, so you'll know it...
  11. mso489

    Best City for a Pipe Smoker

    Pipe smokers are a rare breed and tend toward being independent if not downright introverted. So it is difficult for them to jungle-up in happy groups. I like the old video and photographs of the Senate Watergate hearings with some of the Senators clenching pipes in their mouthes. The...
  12. mso489

    A Stilton Dinner

    Whew. That is living large! Lately, I've been enjoying a wedge of blue cheese and liking it well. At first I tried to pair it with fruit and wine, but I enjoyed it so much, I just eat modest portions with breakfast so it can be counterpoint to the jam on my toast. It's not Stilton by a long...
  13. mso489

    Dino Disappointment

    Not everyone lives within an easy day trip to a good natural history museum, but if you do, your kids or grandkids may love that, and the entry fee, if any, is usually quite reasonable. Likewise with art, science, and history museums. My wife and I were blown away by our state history museum's...
  14. mso489

    Richard Carleton Hacker

    As a follow-up comment, I will say that anyone who self-publishes a book is taking on a second career as a publisher, marketer, and distributor. So kudos to him for following through and realizing a second edition, complete with improved proofreading and distribution to appropriate sales points...
  15. mso489

    John Goldberg Estate

    My dad had an unpaid (hence considered newsworthy) obit in the Chicago Tribune. He had worked in the Chicago financial district for decades and filled the church for his memorial service. Mr. Goldberg sounds like a real pipe man.
  16. mso489

    Fake Sixteen Ivarsson and Bo Nord pipes.

    The pipe market seems like too small a target for AI scammers. I worry more about the banking system, the energy grid, the Defense Department, and other sectors with massive cash flow. Making a paltry thirty grand selling phony high-end pipes ain't nothing.
  17. mso489

    Question for Big Number Math Guys

    I disbelieve the one in six thousand figure. I think the force of a falling quarter would tip it one way or the other in a greater number of cases than one in six thousand. I don't intend to do the experiment, but I think physics are against those odds. However, if the question is simply...
  18. mso489

    FDA new proposal for tobacco product manufacturers

    There was much anxiety a few years ago about regulations that would cause new blends to require hundreds of thousands of dollars just to get approved for sale. This may happen yet, but the deadlines for its implementation are long past and nothing noteworthy has been done on it. I think other...
  19. mso489

    Dino Disappointment

    These commercial traveling exhibits have become something of an industry. A closed movie theater near us presented an exhibit of some of Monet's large paintings, like "Water Lilies," with some light shows and other enhancements. My wife and I have both seen the originals so opted out of...
  20. mso489

    Pipe Smoking Conundrum

    Something like Carter Hall or Sir Walter Raleigh would be obvious choices for starting out with pipe smoking. There's a longer list that'll be mentioned by others on this thread. As for smoking in public, that depends on where you live and what context you are in. Most shops, restaurants...
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