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Wisconsin Sales Tax on Tobacco Starting Jan. 1, 2025
Missouri has the lowest sin taxes in the civilized world, whether on booze, tobacco or weed. The Wisconsin 71% tax on loose tobacco and 100% tax on moist snuff has been around for decades. Do your sinning in Missouri, folks. I can buy two pounds of Bouy Gold for $25 tax paid and smoke an...- Briar Lee
- Post #26
- Forum: Tobacco Legislation
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Gunsmithing and Pipe Smoking
A few years ago I bought a black powder rifle anybody who shoots black should have. A 36 caliber squirrel rifle. Mine has a beech stock and isn’t as fancy as I prefer, but if you get one you’ll not miss your .22 long rifle squirrel hunting. Likewise, a 36 caliber black powder revolver is fun...- Briar Lee
- Post #19
- Forum: General Discussion
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$95 Sig Sauer 1500 Rangefinder
Almost 25 years ago Bushnell came out with a hundred dollar rangefinder that was supposed to be good to 450 yards. I bought one, and still have it, and keep it in the bed of my Rhino to settle discussions over how far away something is. A few years later my son paid $300 for a Leupold...- Briar Lee
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What Makes a Cigar Taste Cigarish?
The fermentation process must account for most of the cigar flavor. That, and of course the cigar makers raise cigar leaf. Another thing mysterious is most pipe tobacco smells delicious indoors or out, but cigars inside stink to high heaven. Outside the cigar aroma is intoxicatingly good.- Briar Lee
- Post #4
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Liverwurst Is Getting Bad Rep!
Eating organ meat must be a cultural thing. I can’t ever remember my mother preparing liver or gizzards or mountain oysters. Her mother never did, either. When they served fried liver at school I couldn’t start to eat it. And I was cautioned at an early age to never eat squirrel brains. The...- Briar Lee
- Post #24
- Forum: Food & Drink
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What Makes a Cigar Taste Cigarish?
In 1973 they came out with Winchester Little Cigars at 25 cents a package when all packages of real cigarettes were 40 cents. Even in 1973 there were do gooders who worried that taking advantage of lower tax rates for cigars than cigarettes would cause teenagers like me to smoke Winchesters...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Esteli Nicaragua cigars
There are over 80 factories in Esteli all making essentially the same product, hand rolled Nicaraguan cigars. https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/nicaragua-rising In such a place the workers won’t have any loyalty. They’ll pack over to another factory for a penny more a stick. You and...- Briar Lee
- Post #13
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Are Expensive Cobs Better?
Federal law requires health care insurance for over fifty employees and MM is way under that. I doubt they get paid for Christmas or Thanksgiving. Traditionally the workers were like Loretta Lynn’s father—-farmers who worked at a factory instead of a coal mine. Those bottom land farms along...- Briar Lee
- Post #60
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Gunsmithing and Pipe Smoking
All my great grandfathers and uncles were Union cavalrymen and my father’s father’s father was in Company M (13th hind guard troop) 12th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry at the Battle of Nashville and also out west at Broadus in September 1865. He was a lot tougher than me. The 12th Missouri...- Briar Lee
- Post #3
- Forum: General Discussion
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Esteli Nicaragua cigars
The reason to buy an Esteli cigar imported by a recognized brand like Scandinavian is they have a reputation to protect and they’ll switch producers if there’s too many bad cigars. God couldn’t count all the cigar makers in Esteli. Only the best sell to the majors. It’s sort of like Nortb...- Briar Lee
- Post #11
- Forum: Cigar Discussion
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Do Aromatics Suck?
Once upon a time I went to college in Kansas City, and I was homesick beyond any ability to describe. But after a few days in the dormitory I noticed that in the lobby was a piano and these outrageously beautiful girls from the Conservatory of Music would practice on it, sometimes dressed in...- Briar Lee
- Post #80
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The House That Middleton Built
One of the reasons the Bible must be essentially true is that people never, ever change. The inadequate son who abandons mansions (plural) and creates public nuisances has been an astounding success in his own right making movies: Xxx As of 2024, Middleton's 30 films and 2 television series...- Briar Lee
- Post #14
- Forum: General Discussion
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What are You Listening To? September '24
There is a closed canon of true nostril nosed hillbilly honky tonk twangers and one of the last “must know” songs an Ozark American singer must know is Harlan Howard’s “Down to my Last Cigarette.” But it’s one of the rare honky tonk standards where the original 1964 version is nearly forgotten...- Briar Lee
- Post #330
- Forum: General Discussion
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Princess Of Wales' Four Words To Discipline Her Kids.
Unsaid and behind any story about the current Princess of Wales is if the finest doctors in the United Kingdom can save her, she’ll live to see her eldest son wear the crown. And if not her husband will become the most eligible widower in the world. A few nights before my mother died, I...- Briar Lee
- Post #12
- Forum: General Discussion
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Are Expensive Cobs Better?
When I visited MM the head secretary took pride in being the only person in the factory paid a living wage. And she bragged how rich the factory owners were and how large their mansions were in St Louis. She said they never had to advertise for employees. There were grandfathers working by...- Briar Lee
- Post #55
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Are Expensive Cobs Better?
Plastering the cobs takes very little time to apply plaster but it must dry an extra day. Up in the top floors are two years worth of drying cobs. The factory makes about a tenth or so of what they did seventy years ago, so there’s lots of space. The last time I was there was Pre Covid. No...- Briar Lee
- Post #54
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Clay Bird Thrower
Today at a thrift shop I bought a pristine Outer’s (now Champion brand) clay bird thrower for $20. I already have one mounted on an old car tire at deer camp but a land owner cannot have too many of these. The advantages of this style thrower are even a child can operate it, the targets are...- Briar Lee
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What are You Listening To? September '24
Practicing Jimmy Brown the Newsboy. It’s nice to see even Earl Scruggs used a capo. But it will be awhile before I reach his level.- Briar Lee
- Post #327
- Forum: General Discussion
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Princess Of Wales' Four Words To Discipline Her Kids.
The very night before my mother died, she was confessing her few and petty sins to me in hopes of making it past the bar to heaven. She began to apologize to me for the tongue lashings and severe discipline (never, ever, physical) she carried out from my cradle to that day. I assured her that...- Briar Lee
- Post #3
- Forum: General Discussion
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Female Cop Rescued by Female Motorist
It surprises most people that while the Amish and Mennonites are complete teotalers, most Campbellite men will have a social drink, unless their wives or mothers or children are present. Liquor is not sinful. Marketing and peddling it to poor people from Guatemala who have no identification is...- Briar Lee
- Post #33
- Forum: General Discussion