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Another "The Olympics Sure Are Changing" Datapoint
For over a hundred years, in free nations such as America, Canada, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and other nations that have long traditions of individual freedom an athlete can chose to go professional or be an Olympian. These blurbs about men selling their photos for the enjoyment of other...- Briar Lee
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Why are Grocery Store Tomatoes so Inferior?
Also the author of This Land is Your Land. Xxxx There was a big high wall there that tried to stop me; Sign was painted, it said private property; But on the back side it didn't say nothing; This land was made for you and me. Xxxx What a contradiction she was, my grandmother. She had the...- Briar Lee
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Why are Grocery Store Tomatoes so Inferior?
My Grandmother used to take the prime part in teaching her seven grandchildren not only the words but each little nuance and allegory and meaning of Deportees. Xxx Some of us are illegal, and some are not wanted, Our work contract's out and we have to move on; Six hundred miles to that...- Briar Lee
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Ruminations on Keeping Cheap Shag Tobacco Humidified
The farmer who raised the leaf contracted with Big Tobacco for about 15 cents at most per ounce, likely a little less. And there’s water and flavorings and PG required for premium tobacco, but let’s say the farmer got 25 cents for the 1 1/2 ounce package. The federal tax-not state and local...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Check Your Fridge
In my sixty six years the two weeks or so I was deathly sick with salmonella in the late summer of 1975 is by far the sickest I’ve ever been. The other boys had perhaps the equivalent of a bad flu, but I got sicker by the day, couldn’t eat anything solid, and felt my mortality for the first...- Briar Lee
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Check Your Fridge
Thanks to my upbringing, I can honestly say I’ve not ever myself stolen anything in all my life. Not ever. But the summer I was 17 I was in a car with a bunch of my friends who raided a shed by a watermelon patch and stole some watermelons. I knew better, and my conscience hurt me, but when...- Briar Lee
- Post #33
- Forum: General Discussion
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Did the Founding Fathers Smoke Pipes?
One of my other passions is history, especially the history of everyday life. The colonists snuffed, chewed, and smoked their own homegrown Virginia tobacco, which was not the Virginia bright leaf we know today. And before Virginia bright leaf and Kentucky white burley and national brand...- Briar Lee
- Post #28
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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Woke Boxing
When I read about these controversies my memory of how I might have been cheated of a career as a hillbilly country music singer comes flooding back. There was a singing contest at the Hickory House honky tonk in Hickory County Missouri, in 1977, and my mother, grandmother, and girlfriend and...- Briar Lee
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Woke Boxing
In the Humansville Christian Church when I was growing up was a woman that I think is still living. Let’s call her Tranny She was very masculine, had a deep voice, and a five o’clock shadow. Dr. G W Robinson determined she was female when she was born over ninety years ago. When she...- Briar Lee
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Ruminations on Keeping Cheap Shag Tobacco Humidified
Phillip Morris used to be among the most profitable corporations in world history. Even today the major cigarette companies can take two pounds ($4) of leaf tobacco and manufacture 1,000 cigarettes (five cartons, or 50 packs) at a tobacco cost of 8 cents a package. The labor and other costs...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Ruminations on Keeping Cheap Shag Tobacco Humidified
As an experiment in the exercise of tax avoidance I took several one ounce trial size bags of cheap shag and made as many well packed, round, fat full size 70mm cigarettes from the tobacco as I could. Regardless of brand an ounce rolls 30 or a few more Camel or Lucky Strike quality and size...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Washington vs legend Cob
Until maybe twenty or thirty years ago they’d give anybody a tour of the factory, and in the late nineties I watched a worker make me a Freehand. The culture of all those towns along the Missouri River in what’s known as “Little Dixie” is charming. Every one is neat, clean, and tourists are... -
Ruminations on Keeping Cheap Shag Tobacco Humidified
Title shortened. Critical Importance removed. Having tried over a dozen brands of cheap shag tobacco, I’ve settled on my favorite, Bouy Gold. But regardless of brand, it might be able to be stored dry but before smoking the taste and smoking experience of cheap shag tobacco is vastly...- Briar Lee
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PSA for WiFi extenders
But they didn’t sell for $15 free shipping on eBay, and plug in and set up intuitively. If I was the King of the World every electronic gadget that uses Wi-Fi, such as smart TVs, soundbars, etc, would be required to have a built in repeater or there’d be a $15 fine. My wife and I put up with...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Washington vs legend Cob
Over fifty years ago now, I tried making my own corn cob pipe. The hardest part was finding a reed for a stem, but I used a section of an old bamboo cane fishing pole that used to sell for less than a dollar in every hardware store back then. My pipe burned out (on the sides) in less than a... -
Why are Grocery Store Tomatoes so Inferior?
Those tomatoes would not sell as eaters in a modern grocery store. They taste great but don’t look perfect. They’d be made into catsup. My wife claims that over half of the fresh fruits and vegetables that are destined for the grocery stores are tossed away as not cosmetically perfect. And...- Briar Lee
- Post #46
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PSA for WiFi extenders
The genius of who ever was in charge of the development team of thd Wifi repeater is amazing. The technology allows that little plastic box to if, it can catch one little whiff of a signal, repeat and boost that signal again. Combined with other miracles such as the modern smart phone, last...- Briar Lee
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PSA for WiFi extenders
I don’t know if the brand matters but the el cheap o generic $15 WiFi extender I bought for our garage works better than I could imagine. We get one or two bars signal in our garage but with this gizmo plugged in, we get wall to wall five bars and full broadband speeds. Easy to install and...- Briar Lee
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What Are You Listening To - July, 2024
For a pretty girl singer, It Wasn’t God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels has been the standard audition song and the first song every pretty girl singer learns to sing, since Kitty Wells sang it first in 1952. Nobody does it better and looks better doing it, than Canadian Terri Clark. If you don’t...- Briar Lee
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Will the SCOTUS Chevron Decision Affect FDA Tobacco Rulemaking?
Until the Progressive era under Teddy Roosevelt there was no income tax and no government bureaucracy except for paying pensions to Civil War veterans and their spouses (which didn’t wind up fully until very modern times when the last soldier’s widow died). Upton Sinclair took dead aim at...- Briar Lee
- Post #65
- Forum: Tobacco Legislation