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Double Edged Razor Blades
Switching to wet-shaving really improved my quality of life. I am not exaggerating. I got in a really terrible fight with puberty when I was a kid, and lost. To this day, even at the age of 36, my skin is constantly causing me problems, and as such, I have to be very diligent if I don't want...- K.E. Powell
- Post #90
- Forum: General Discussion
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From Cigars to Pipes or Pipes to Cigars?
I started with pipes and have been smoking them a little over three years now. I only started seriously getting into cigars since last June. I love both, but for different reasons. Pipes are highly individualistic and personal. For me, they transmute baser things, such as loneliness and...- K.E. Powell
- Post #32
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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How Many of you are Divorced?
I know this will sound cruel, but the best bit of advice, such as it is, that I could offer would be to not air out these kinds of things to strangers in the first place. No one here, including myself, is going to be able to offer really useful advice beyond either stating the obvious or the...- K.E. Powell
- Post #22
- Forum: General Discussion
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Baraccini/Stanwell P&C lighters
Unfortunately, those lighters are cheaply made. I'll spare you my thoughts about what the best method for lighting pipe tobacco is (I'm rather particular), but a lot of these pipe branded lighters are not actually manufactured by that brand, but instead outsourced elsewhere, usually China...- K.E. Powell
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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What Foodstuffs Best Define the Place Where You Live?
It's funny you mention this, because I met someone recently who is working on creating a regional "Wheeling Cookbook," with an emphasis on regional and homemade recipes. One of my mom's concoctions will be featured in the book once they have it finished. Pretty neat stuff. Anyway, in West by...- K.E. Powell
- Post #7
- Forum: Food & Drink
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What are You Reading Now?
I haven't watched the film, but yes, this is the book the movie is based on.- K.E. Powell
- Post #1,810
- Forum: General Discussion
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What are You Reading Now?
Just finished Thomas Savage's "The Power of the Dog." Utterly phenomenal. Phil Burbank is a Top 5 literature villain for me, easily. Also reading some Joseph Ellis history books. Man never has anything original to say, but he is easily one of the most readable popular historians for the...- K.E. Powell
- Post #1,802
- Forum: General Discussion
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Neerup Pipe Question
I always recommend doing a dry draw before lighting your tobacco for this very reason. You should be able to draw from your pipe as easily as drinking through a straw; if you have to try to draw, then chances are there is an obstruction somewhere. Typically, this is the result of packing too...- K.E. Powell
- Post #13
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Trick or Treating: How Old Is Too Old?
I love trick or treat and all things Halloween, and I wouldn't begrudge them to anyone, regardless of their age. If I have candy to give, and you're willing to go door to door in costume for my amusement, then have a Snickers. Most adults or older teens that are trick or treating are usually...- K.E. Powell
- Post #38
- Forum: General Discussion
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Why Do Aromatics Have a Bad Rap?
Ah, the "why do aros get a bad rap" question. A classic in the genre! :sher: My own personal views on the subject were more or less echoed to a T by SBC, so I won't elaborate too much on my own tastes and opinions on aros. I will say, however, that there may be one very simple reason people...- K.E. Powell
- Post #90
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Favorite Peterson Blends
For the exception of Royal Yacht, none have knocked my socks off yet, but I haven't had one I truly despised other than maybe Hyde Park. I do want to try 3 P's after seeing it go so much love here, though.- K.E. Powell
- Post #48
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Iconic Movies that Disappoint.
Broadly speaking, most "iconic" films have not disappointed me entirely. There are many I do not personally enjoy, but I can find merit in them and respect them as a works of art and entertainment. The Shining is a perfect example of this. I find the film to be an exercise in style over...- K.E. Powell
- Post #120
- Forum: General Discussion
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Worst Cigar that you've smoked this year?
I've been lucky in my relatively new journey in cigar smoking. Most of the cigars I've smoked have ranged from decent to excellent. Still, I was disappointed in AB's Magic Toast. It's not a bad smoke at all, but it didn't live up to the hype. I felt the coffee and bready flavors were...- K.E. Powell
- Post #11
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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What's a "Man's Drink"?
The ironic thing is, a lot of so-called "girly" drinks are absolute destroyers. Many are just entire fishbowls full of tequila, but since they have some fruit in them, I guess they are feminine? Because only women like fruit or some shit? Look, I don't know. The whole need to constantly...- K.E. Powell
- Post #34
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Finally Starting To Understand Flavor Basics
Glad you're enjoying your smoking and that you're beginning to pick up on the nuances and pleasures of our favored vice. I will say that Haunted Bookshop and Old Joe are two Bob Runowski blends and, if memory serves, are not cased or topped with anything whatsoever. That's fairly uncommon in...- K.E. Powell
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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I Want to Try Hand-rolled Cigars
Getting actual Cuban cigars here in the States can be a challenge due to the (ridiculous) embargo. Maybe you'll have better luck than me in acquiring a real Cuban cigar since you're from England, though I don't know what your country's trade relations are like with Cuba. re cutters: Most...- K.E. Powell
- Post #2
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Conventional Wisdom
I think that is probably fair. Some people are very literal-minded and approach everything as a problem to be solved. There's nothing wrong with that, mind you; in the kind of professional fields you mentioned, that disposition is a strength. But it does mean more abstract means of...- K.E. Powell
- Post #65
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Conventional Wisdom
Oh man, my dad was (and still is) fond of this one. Though when he said it, it was less a saying and more a verbal warning that his patience was wearing excessively thin. :LOL:- K.E. Powell
- Post #64
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Clench Drool
Same here. OP, it's a physiological response. It's kind of like sweating: pretty much everyone sweats, but some more so than others. I just don't clench for overly long periods of time. Which is mostly find by me; the tactile part of smoking a pipe is, for me at least, part of the joy, so...- K.E. Powell
- Post #39
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Conventional Wisdom
It's not always the platitude or aphorism itself that I bristle at, but rather the aphorist's confidence that their pith can hold the considerable philosophical burden placed upon it. Most aphorisms have some measure of truth to them. But the truth they have is relative to the circumstances to...- K.E. Powell
- Post #33
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion