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What are You Drinking? November 2024
Never a truer word said :-)- MisterBadger
- Post #43
- Forum: Food & Drink
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***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
Charatan Black Flake in a new acquisition, a 'Little English' by the Colossus Pipe Factory, with black coffee.- MisterBadger
- Post #2,855
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Trying to Love Straight Virginias and Vapers
Yeah - not sure about exhaling through the bowl, especially with a moist flake and in cold weather. Seems to be the water vapour in your breath is likelier to dampen the tobacco in the base of the chamber and cause it to go out more often - and if you are an habitual puffer, you won't want that..- MisterBadger
- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Naming Patterns.
Personally, I don't save my dottle at all. And I bet Holmes didn't, either, after a while. As I recall, we are introduced to this and other eccentric habits of his at the beginning ('A Study In Scarlet', I think) when Holmes is clearly, like Watson, embarking on an as yet relatively...- MisterBadger
- Post #35
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Naming Patterns.
Good point. As long as it means decent tobaccos are brought on to the market, and inferior new blends do not eclipse anything older and better in quality. That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. If Peterson's Irish Flake were renamed Satan's Socks I'd still buy it.- MisterBadger
- Post #34
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Naming Patterns.
Speaking of naming absurdity... this is from 1883. It seems to have had a very limited marketing life.- MisterBadger
- Post #21
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Naming Patterns.
Or think of the four Hogwarts houses, and some of the characters... Sir, you have struck a rich vein of marketing genius.- MisterBadger
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Naming Patterns.
What Verdi said of Wagner: "Wonderful moments, awful half-hours..." :-D As for stopping at Three Nuns in the ecclesiastical field, I think that was a wise move, as some of your suggestions, in the light of recent abuse scandals, are suggestive of the kind of leisure pursuit most of us would not...- MisterBadger
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Naming Patterns.
Oldness (see Old Joe Gowrie Holborn and all, plus spurious dates) Orientalism Patriotism (mostly out of favour now the tobacco market is so cosmopolitan) Celticity (Scottish/Irish Flake/Cake/Cask/Mixture etc, and why is there never a Welsh brand?) I'm sure there's more...- MisterBadger
- Post #15
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Intro From Minneapolis
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- Post #11
- Forum: New Member Introductions
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Antique Store Finds
Superb. Have you deciphered the hallmarks?- MisterBadger
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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What are You Drinking? November 2024
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- Post #40
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Four More Cutties
I should have realised that the clue was contained in the words "Make Your Own Pipe" in the thread title... :-/ Very handsome pipes, anyhow: I hope they smoke as nicely as they look.- MisterBadger
- Post #11
- Forum: Make Your Own Pipe Project
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***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
Cold afternoon out harvesting turnips and chard in the snow... best crop of turnips I ever lifted, which is something to say after this rotten growing year... left the mobile at home so I can't show you the sunset I watched on the white-capped Clee Hills turning them from pink to mauve... but...- MisterBadger
- Post #2,624
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, Nov. 2024?***
That's a lovely rug, too, by the way - is it a Baluchi? Mrs. Badger thinks it's an Afghan.- MisterBadger
- Post #2,590
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Balance Rating
You might consider publishing the spreadsheet here, and see if the experiences of afficionados of orientals confirm or deviate from your findings.- MisterBadger
- Post #14
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What are You Reading Now?
Peter Davis lived and farmed 8 miles from where I live, in what was then a very different world. Edited by the diarist's great-great grandson. There's nothing like a primary source when you're reading History: the dead speak directly to you across an age. Where I've gotten to, he's just taken...- MisterBadger
- Post #664
- Forum: General Discussion
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UFO's & UAP's: Is the Truth Out There?
The data includes deep bore tube samples through Greenland and Antarctic ice going back 120,000 years.- MisterBadger
- Post #148
- Forum: General Discussion