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    Got Back From ER.

    Not an open bladed cutter - just a thumb+finger Guillotine job. Not sure how anyone would find that a threat or classify it as a potential weapon 🤷‍♂️ Maybe I don’t have a deviant mind
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    Got Back From ER.

    Be glad you are not living in Oz - the Nanny State I got stopped at airport security and had a cigar cutter confiscated - because it was a bladed instrument. No, not a knife - an innocuous guillotine :mad:
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    Advice on the Restoration and Clean-up process

    Paul, The Danish Pipe Shop is not that far from where you are. They will do a good job of cleaning that up for you.
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    ***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

    @BenMN Thanks for your best wishes. Looking forward to this next surgery so I don’t have to look cross-eyed at things any more 😁
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    ***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

    The next pipe is a morta canted egg with black bamboo by Domagoj Telisman (DotterPipes)1 Esoterica Penzance
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    ***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

    Going to enjoy my last couple of bowls for a while as U’m due to have my 2nd cataract surgery on Thursday. A Carlo Scotti Castello 53 searock Bowl of cube-cut Germain’s Special Latakia Flake And a tall drink of Aperol, blood orange juice and Fever Tree pink grapefruit soda
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    A Progress Report

    Jesse, sorry to hear of your back problem.. Hopefully the MRI will reveal the problem and your doctor will have a solution. Best wishes for a quick recovery.
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    ***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

    Follow up smoke of Esoterica Dunbar In a Josef Prammer morta saddle-stemmed bent brandy
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    ***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***

    A couple of smokes this arvo with me mate, Doug First up is a DotterPipe (Domagoj Telisman) bent egg with a variegated ebony shank extension A bowl of Esotetica Tilbury And a long cold drink of Aperol, freshly squeezed blood orange and pink grapefruit soda
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    In Memoriam

    Thank you
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    Old Pipe? Weird Shape

    There is a twin to this pipe on EBay UK with a price of USD $85 BIN/make an offer Stamped “Bruyere Guarantee” so French made, presumably in St. Claude
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    David Cuneo A.K.A. Dmcmtk Has Passed Away.

    Vale David I particularly missed his expertise and knowledge of Danish pipes (and the rest) when he stopped posting some time back RIP
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    In Memoriam

    Many thanks
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    In Memoriam

    Thank you. It really was combined effort of the group. One of the attendees had not been for a couple of years because of health issues, but made a special effort to be there last night
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    In Memoriam

    Thank you. A different group. That was my “cigar” group This group are my wine buddies. Most of us met in the ‘70s as a wine tasting group for weekly tastings at a wine store. When that store closed (divorce and enforced sale) we re-jigged ourselves as a dinner group
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    In Memoriam

    Thank you. Paul was a stoic. None of his friends realised he had a chronic lung condition - which he blamed on building/working on surfboards (fibreglass) throughout his teens (Paul's younger brother is also suffering from the same lung disease). He just got on with life. We only found out a...
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    In Memoriam

    Thank you. We met over 40years ago at a wine tasting. A quirky, idiosyncratic, generous personality. A visit to an art gallery earlier this year suddenly became so much more insightful because Paul, being a personal friend of the artist, could imbue the works with his knowledge of the artist’s...
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    In Memoriam

    Vale Paul. You are sadly missed, but your memory lives on every time we dine together
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    In Memoriam

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    In Memoriam

    Wine dinner last night was a memorial dinner for one of the original members of the group. Most of the wines served came out of his cellars Paul was a successful manufacturer of men’s clothes, which gave him the financial independence to pursue his other interest, photography. He exhibited in...