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    Sutliff - Find Your Perfect Blend Computer Quiz

    THIS ^.
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    What Do You Look For In A Va/Per?

    I've found flakes or coins in general to be more flavorful and cooler-burning than rubbed/cut blends. That narrows it down some. I also look for a blend where the Perique adds a 3rd dimensional complexity and fruit to the VA, but without making it spicy as in hot-peppery. At present the one...
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    Your Corn Cob Pipe in action

    Awesome! Your cobs are the real McCoy (no pun intended). Never cared for the aesthetics of acrylic stems on cobs. I have a couple Chessapeakes, they're great for a quick puff or two, but the short stem makes them burn a little hot, and I had to fish out a 3p nail from the shed because my...
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    Famous pipe smokers

    Irene Ryan, for the cob lovers, so they don't feel left out.
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    How Long to Break In a Briar?

    He said break it in, not paddle it like a frat initiate :D But seriously, I consider most briars broken in before I get it, as I almost always buy estates. On the rare occasion I bought a new one, I considered it broken in after the first bowl. I never bothered with the gradual break in...
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    Cajun Humor

    In French, grosse tète means fathead, not big head. Big Head would be Grand Tète (with the correct accent, grave not acute). Grand Teton (as in the national park and mountain formation in Wyoming)literally means Bit Tit in French. But Louisiana French (Cajun and Creole, which are not the...
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    Cajun Humor

    Not really. It's actually "tee", a transformation of the French word "petit" (pronounced puh-TEE) which in fact means "little" and can be a term of endearment (Mon petit=little one). Until recent moves to re-educate Cajun youth, most Cajuns were illiterate in French and had no idea the...
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    Free Fayyum Kake Samples Anyone? Tobacco Brownie Bites

    Very nice gesture! I'm satisfied with Nightcap and have no desire to try another English especially one which may not survive the FDA oppression, but that one looks and sounds yummy.
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    Famous pipe smokers

    After that, former Detroit Tigers manager, noting the Gothic "D" on his cap in that photo.
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    Over/Under Rated Blends.

    Underrated: Lakelands. They should be rated as toxic waste and subject to hazardous materials shipping laws. Overrated: OTC's. Despite their current fad status among pipe "hobbyists", historically they were smoked by the working-class who were either unaware or uninterested that anything of...
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    Peterson as a Basket Pipe?

    Perhaps to save their customers some grief, the store went through their Peterson stock and put those in the basket which they felt should have been deemed seconds by the factory. Hmm...but why would they do that rather than send them back attention to Peterson's QC manager you ask...
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    Old Edward G.

    I agree completely. Which is exactly why it surprises me they don't source cheap tobacco, given that in the corporate world those kinds of decisions are often made by suits who don't even use the product, basing those decisions on boosting the bottom-line even if it's only pennies. I mean...
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    SG Firedance Flake

    I occasionally like an aromatic, provided it's not crap-quality burley used as a topping-sponge, and provided the top note is something I like the taste of, and provided it's got some nic-body. Erik Stokkebye's 4th-Gen 1931 Flake (light honey flavor) is a standard of mine, as is SG Kendal...
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    SG Firedance Flake

    Picked me up a tin of this recently. I happen to like blackberry flavor, and if you do also, it's a good one to consider. Unlike aros in which the tobacco is merely a sponge used to absorb the topping, Firedance uses quality tobacco with a decent natural flavor of its own. Like most SG blends...
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    Old Edward G.

    Assuming that's factual, is it because these are legacy names purchased by their current manufacturers, and more economical for them to use the same leaf as goes into their good-quality blends than buy up small quantities of low-quality leaf as those blends originally contained? I'm trying to...
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    Old Edward G.

    I agree what's done with the tobaccos makes the biggest difference. But anyone with actual knowledge of tobacco will corroborate that there are different grades of leaf within each type of leaf. I wasn't implying EGR is made from the factory's floor sweepings like CH, PA, and M79 (the latter...
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    How Do You Spot A Fake Cuban Cigar?

    If it says Monticlisto or Lomeo Y Jurieta, it's probably a fake.
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    Old Edward G.

    I wasn't repulsed by the flavor or topping of EGR but I thought it was done with cheap tobacco. There was a harshness and a flat/dullness to it that screamed OTC. I finished my tin by adding about 10% by volume of Nightcap, and really liked the result. For some reason my gut instinct is the...
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    A Newbie Reviews: Dunhill Nightcap

    I've smoked many English blends including those by Dunhill. After Nightcap the rest paled by comparison and now it's the only English blend I smoke.
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    Recommend an 'incense' blend...

    Give a try to Dunhill The Aperitif. It's a Scottish blend, Oriental-forward, with uncased brown cavendish, and very light on the Latakia. Probably half to a quarter of what you find in their other Scottish, MM965. Has good sweetness and a fragrant room note that gets even Mrs. Shutterbugg's...
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