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Would you keep an ugly pipe that smokes really well?
Several reasons: 1. Most pipes are barely visible while you're smoking them, and if they're good smokers then you're not fiddling with them and looking at them to get them to work, so it doesn't matter what they look like; 2. The ancient Egyptians had an aesthetic different from ours, which...- MisterBadger
- Post #33
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Would you keep an ugly pipe that smokes really well?
Well, I once acquired a beat-up old Meerschaum in a job lot of 6 estate pipes, of which there were only a couple I really wanted, and this Meer that came with them was a right old codger pipe. I couldn't resell it on its own, and I kind of felt sorry for it, because it had at least been loved...- MisterBadger
- Post #8
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Picking on Brits a Bit
It requires a far lesser degree of intimacy to fry eggs in front of someone else, than to change - and even more so, wash - one's underwear. Also, whether in someone home's or in a place of public resort such as a cafe, fried eggs are far more frequently and easily seen that people's underwear...- MisterBadger
- Post #274
- Forum: General Discussion
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Picking on Brits a Bit
What the kids think is IPA these days, is nothing like a proper India Pale Ale: that stuff was originally brewed to mature in barrels on shipboard during the 6-8 weeks it took a sailing ship to get from Britain to India before the opening of the Suez Canal. It was brewed very strong, very...- MisterBadger
- Post #271
- Forum: General Discussion
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Is There A Real Difference.
Here's an apposite quote from A A Milne (he of pre-Disney Winnie-The-Pooh fame): "Whereas men of an older school, like myself, smoke for the pleasure of smoking, men of this school smoke for the pleasure of pipe-owning - of selecting which of their many white-spotted pipes they will fill with...- MisterBadger
- Post #54
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Picking on Brits a Bit
I have had the pleasure of drinking several excellent beers produced by New England microbreweries that put some British equivalents to shame. That braggart Scotsman probably got slipped a Mickey Finn (because your Natural Light wouldn't have put his lights out on its own - it's only 4.2% ABV)...- MisterBadger
- Post #266
- Forum: General Discussion
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Picking on Brits a Bit
RIGHT. Your Budweiser (to misappropriate the name of a perfectly decent Czech lager from Budvar ought to be a crime against humanity in international law) both looks and tastes like I imagine the contents of a pub urinal would be, and has about the same alcohol content. It would not surprise me...- MisterBadger
- Post #265
- Forum: General Discussion
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Picking on Brits a Bit
Chilling beer at the point of delivery is a way of disguising the taste of an inferior brew (like Foster's), and of ruining that of a good one (like Guinness). And I'm sure it can't be good for the digestion.- MisterBadger
- Post #246
- Forum: General Discussion
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Hello From Northwest Georgia!
- MisterBadger
- Post #12
- Forum: New Member Introductions
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A Little Humor for the Day 2024
Oh Lord! That reminds me of myself vs. Mrs. Badger ! :LOL:- MisterBadger
- Post #12
- Forum: General Discussion
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Picking on Brits a Bit
In my youth used to work in an iron foundry. At lunchtime, we would all go down the pub. There, the furnacemen would sink four pints and during the following afternoon would sweat it all out again, with no more effect on them than if they had been drinking tea. As a gopher/general labourer...- MisterBadger
- Post #242
- Forum: General Discussion
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Picking on Brits a Bit
I understand that many folk here in UK put their eggs in the refrigerator, too, and some refrigerators come equipped with a shelf in the door specially designed to put them in securely. But Mrs. Badger insists that keeping eggs in such a cold environment means the yolks are more likely to break...- MisterBadger
- Post #240
- Forum: General Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***
Procrastinating from getting out there and finishing pruning the apple trees, with Hal O' The Wynd and a little rather-boring-on-its-own Charatan Black Flake, in a large Brillani cutty that recently arrived as an early Som Besths present from me to myself. Friends, I can find no information on...- MisterBadger
- Post #458
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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New to pipes
- MisterBadger
- Post #8
- Forum: New Member Introductions
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This is just Bananas #2.
- MisterBadger
- Post #36
- Forum: General Discussion
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A Little Humor for the Day 2024
- MisterBadger
- Post #9
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Are You Drinking? December 2024
Gin Hot: absolutely pointless showing you a pic of the mug it's in, so here's a verbal description: A nice, warming winter beverage beloved in the Victorian era but sadly, largely forgotten these days. It's simple: pour a couple of fingers of a dry London gin into a half-pint mug, add a slice...- MisterBadger
- Post #6
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Hello from California
- MisterBadger
- Post #27
- Forum: New Member Introductions