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Online July 4th Sales?
St. Pat's, Christmas, and Father's Day get more of a run-up for sales prior to the day. July 4 will probably generate a discount or two, but not like those other holidays, and with not a lot of play beforehand.- mso489
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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Missouri Meerschaum Shank Crack
I have several of the C&D editions over four or five years with no problems, and none on other MM products. MM does very high volume, probably the greatest number of pipes among U.S. factories, so the opportunity for some bad materials and bad pipes is there. I wouldn't remove the stems...- mso489
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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When Did P&C Leave Albany?
I didn't know about them until 2013, so I didn't know they'd moved. I go back further with C&D, to when they were located in North Carolina, after moving here from Pennsylvania, and before Laudisi bought them and they moved to South Carolina. The pipe business seems to move around. Dr...- mso489
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Smoking without a Filter
I have many pipes that take filters that I smoke without filters. Even with loose tobacco, I find that if I don't pack them too tightly, they seldom pass tobacco through the airways. This includes numerous Savinelli pipes with balsa moisture traps, other pipes that use paper Dr. Grabow or...- mso489
- Post #11
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipes By George, Raleigh NC
Pipes By George has been my independent pipe shop for decades. Unfortunately I'm not able to get over there regularly as I used to do. It is in a great old campus neighborhood that used to be old frame houses rented out as student rooms, but now gentrified with higher end apartment homes...- mso489
- Post #2
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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***What Are You Smoking, June 2023?***
Newminster #306 English Oriental in a Savinelli carved "cob" briar pipe with a thin green band and bright yellow stem (corn themed) 606 KS bent billiard. Had a good call from a high school friend retired to Hawaii after a long career with the Chicago Board of Trade. He was telling me about...- mso489
- Post #3,383
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Samplers
I'd go with the suggestion on getting some 1 oz. bulk samples from SP. The two most common base tobaccos (base being the predominant tobacco on which a blend is based) are Virginia and burley, so I'd get a sample of a basic version of each of those, to learn their tastes. For a year or two, I...- mso489
- Post #8
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Show off your Rattray's Pipes Here!
Weren't Rattray pipes made in Scotland at one time? And now somewhere else, maybe Italy or France. My PC is gimpy on web sites, pipedia being one. How are your Rattray's stamped for nation of origin, if they are?- mso489
- Post #4
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Honeys looking for honey!
There have always been a few Forums members who shared their pipe smoking with their spouses. One couple shared the habit for decades. In another case, a woman pipe smoker joined and posted an unending series of primo artisan pipes she bought week after week, and then posted a picture of...- mso489
- Post #11
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Canada wild Fire
The bad air days extended at least as far as here in central North Carolina. I felt it with an occasional cough and some watery eyes and air quality warnings that had me mostly stay inside. I try to catch a walk most days, and I run errands without much outdoor time. We had a couple days when...- mso489
- Post #9
- Forum: General Discussion
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Lamb's Stones Anyone?
At a Middle Eastern restaurant in Queens, NY, the proprietor showed us a bin of lamb stones he'd just gotten from the butcher, dark and formless, not a pretty prospect. I just don't like organ meats of any kind -- not chicken or beef liver, brain, hearts, or kidneys. Lamb meat is good to me...- mso489
- Post #8
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Hail to Thee, Smokingpipes!
I'm in SP's neighboring state of North Carolina, and I suspect they ship my order before I click. I have to be careful the USPS truck doesn't run me down. And I'm not even in their reward plan, so I'm not even a Lead Balloon member, just a guest.- mso489
- Post #23
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Greetings from The Netherlands
Hey from central North Carolina. My brother-in-law is a dual citizen of Holland and the US, and teaches Dutch language and culture to young people and adults in the Chicago area. He grew up in Rotterdam. I've been to Amsterdam and a little around smaller cities in Holland. Welcome aboard.- mso489
- Post #31
- Forum: New Member Introductions
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Howdy from NYC
Hey from central North Carolina. I'm originally from the Chicago area, met my wife at school in Missouri, but "courted" her commuting back and forth to the NYC area. She lived in Greenwich Village West for decades, and also on Long Island way up in Ridge. She wrote for the main edition of...- mso489
- Post #6
- Forum: New Member Introductions
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Recent visit to Iwan Ries
Iwan Ries has always had good house pipes. Back in the eighties I bought three of them, made by Edwards in their Benton series of oil-cured Algerian briar, and all are still handsome pipes with ample chambers and great durability. The sources on house pipes has changed several times, but now...- mso489
- Post #26
- Forum: Pipe Tobacconists - B&M's and Internet Retailers
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New Winslow Crown
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Titanic Tour Sub Missing. Remarks/Questions.
The carbon fiber hull, not necessarily this one, could have been tested robotically to find out how many dives at what depths it could withstand. The Titan debris was found by a remotely controlled vehicle.- mso489
- Post #398
- Forum: General Discussion
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Anyone Ever Find a Gas Station Gold Mine?
Oh what a relief. I thought the Amish were without vices. 5 Brothers is good enough.- mso489
- Post #7
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Famous Dunhill Smokers
Remember, Dunhill used to be second fiddle to Kaywoodie, and though they were both pricey pipes, it wasn't anything like the current White Spot pricing. So, yes, it was an up-market pipe that well-off pipe smokers favored, but it wasn't the corrected-for-inflation equivalent of eight hundred...- mso489
- Post #6
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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