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  1. MisterBadger

    Would you keep an ugly pipe that smokes really well?

    - It's 1842, people. The Cratchitts have a fireplace, and we read that they also have a copper, in which the Christmas pudding is boiling. As per these suggestions, the Cratchitt's options are either to have boiled turkey, by adding slices to the boiling water in the copper, or fried turkey in a...
  2. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Welsh class 'til lunchtime, and now a bowl of Hal O' the Wynd in the codger Meer. The accompanying Guinness seems to bring out some additional sweet notes in the Hal, that I hadn't noticed before.
  3. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Question: Is Abner an entire Tom?
  4. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Estne volumen in toga sua, an solum tibi libet me videre? (Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?)
  5. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Cosmic, while those of us who consider themselves indigenous Brits because they're Welsh (such as Mrs. Badger) might feel the sting of that insult (and it was a really good one, even for you), do remind yourself that the English as such, are descended from the 'Angel-cynne' or 'Aenglisc', a...
  6. MisterBadger

    Would you keep an ugly pipe that smokes really well?

    Never a truer word said, I think. Consider Ebernezer Scrooge, just after his epiphany on Christmas morning: he sends a passing lad in the street below to buy the biggest turkey in the local butcher's, and deliver it to his impoverished clerk Bob Cratchitt and his numerous, starveling family...
  7. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I do. Are you not a serious drinker?
  8. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    I don't know about elsewhere, but a friend of mine in California learned Latin at High School there - though it was in the 1960s. My school in UK taught Latin but it seems to have been dropped from most school curricula (yes, I saw what you did, there) in recent years. It makes more sense to...
  9. MisterBadger

    The Smoking Shed

    Earlier this year I acquired a bit of land for growing fruit and veg, and with it came a very nice 8x8 shed. Not a smoking shed as such, but when I'm there after a few hours' work, I do like to sit in it, or on on its little verandah, just big enough to shelter two reclining chairs, and enjoy a...
  10. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    What else to drink when you run out of whisk(e)y, brandy, gin, rum, vodka, calvados, poteen, polish spirit and isopropyl rubbing alcohol?
  11. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    This comment can't be in the King's English, because I don't follow what you're going on about, though you are clearly a Johnny Foreigner doing his best to master it, so I will be as patient as I can, in order to foster mutual understanding. Do you mean you have RTE in Irish and BBC Scotland...
  12. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    They seem to be increasingly hard to get, these days. I think that's because @condorlover1 has bought most of the old Meer cutties left in the world. :)
  13. MisterBadger

    Planning return to piping with a change in direction.

    For a VA/Per blend that's the latter, and gently sparing with the perique so it won't scream through your sinuses, I'd suggest Charatan Rolls, Peterson's Irish Cask or Robert McConnell's Scottish Cake.
  14. MisterBadger

    Hello from Kansas

  15. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Well, I did load up the old codger Meer with some Hal O' The Wynd and took it out with me so that I could enjoy it with a pint in the yard of the Blue Boar after doing the last of the Christmas shopping, but there was no time to enjoy the long, untrammeled smoke it deserves, and no time since...
  16. MisterBadger

    ***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

    Perchance the defacatory comment was to the effect that the repast offered was not up to the standard to which His Highness would wish to become accustomed?
  17. MisterBadger

    19th century pipes

    Henry Tibbe began his Missouri Meerschaum business in 1869, after being approached by a farmer who had been carving his own pipes from corn cobs for some time. Since Moby Dick was published in 1851, it seems perfectly possible to me that corncob pipes, home-made, were a thing by then, if...
  18. MisterBadger

    Famous Historical Pipe Smokers

    And here is the great Karl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), who rescued Psychology from the reductionist dogmata of that sex-obsessed, disturbed old perv, Sigmund Freud. Freud, by the way, also smoked a pipe but preferred cigars, and whenever photographed, he is often shown with a cigar in hand, but...
  19. MisterBadger

    Would you keep an ugly pipe that smokes really well?

    Yes. Absolutely. This is the French concept of 'jolie-laide', or the Japanese 'wabi-sabi'. Why don't we have a word for it in English?
  20. MisterBadger

    Picking on Brits a Bit

    Amen to that. The only way to drink Foster's, Toohey's, XXXX etc is not to allow any of it to touch the sides when it goes down. You don't want to taste it.
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