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  1. marlinspike

    My Estervals Order Was Sent By USPS To Customs And Has been Shipped Back To Germany

    FWIW, I don't think Estervals much likes shipping out to U.S. customers (not that I blame them, in some ways). I was ready to place a substantial order with them fairly recently, but I detected more than a little resistance to some questions I asked them about ordering. Anyway, I put that...
  2. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    Your pup in your avatar looks like a keeper!
  3. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    KBV Burlier Morning Pipe in a Peterson 80s. Strong-brewed black tea with heavy cream to accompany.
  4. marlinspike

    My Estervals Order Was Sent By USPS To Customs And Has been Shipped Back To Germany

    This is the truth. I don't make many purchases from overseas now, largely because the cost of shipping has become so crazy, but I don't pay cash (or direct wire) for anything but an in-person purchase (and not always then!). Credit cards and Paypal, for their faults, at least offer a route for...
  5. marlinspike

    My Estervals Order Was Sent By USPS To Customs And Has been Shipped Back To Germany

    A far, far better use of your money! Get something in hand for that cash instead of a deflated sense of defeat.
  6. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    Wilke No. 515 in a MM apple Diplomat.
  7. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    SPC Plum Pudding in an Ali bent billiard meer.
  8. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    C&D Sansepolcro in a Falcon shillelagh stem with Plymouth briar bowl. We're having an uncharacteristically muggy day in this area of the PNW.
  9. marlinspike

    Trouble With The Police And Your Pipe

    All these Karens and Beckys have a lot to answer for these days! Muckrakers, the lot of 'em! :ROFLMAO:
  10. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    I always thought it highly appropriate that a tobacco is called “Amsterdam Shag”! :ROFLMAO:
  11. marlinspike

    Trouble With The Police And Your Pipe

    I was mainly meaning the areas where I grew up, since some of those departments were under Justice Department orders for abuses during the '70s and '80s. Yeah, it's a real mess though, across the country.
  12. marlinspike

    Trouble With The Police And Your Pipe

    As the son, grandson, or nephew of men who served in the police, sheriff's department, or fire departments in the small-town South, I would say your point is well-taken. There were some really good guys in each department then, and some folks whom I'd now call virtual sociopaths. I can't...
  13. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    I saw in your last post that you ended up not having to leave your home - all to the good! I have some extended family that live near Grass Valley, and they were on alert until last night to be ready to evacuate, but it seems the order's on hold right now. Hope they can get it under control...
  14. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    Wilke Rumcake in a Volkan bullcap. I've been experimenting with adding more peppercorns to the masala chai I often brew for a morning cup, and overdid it a bit this morning! There's often a fine line between, "yeah, that works!" and "ooops, too much!" :oops:
  15. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    Peretti's Cuban Mixture in a Briarworks blasted-finish bullmoose.
  16. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    An old favorite - Newminster No. 400 in a MM Missouri Pride cob.
  17. marlinspike

    Best Pipe Filters

    Whatever you do, don't waste a second on those Medico/Dr. Grabow paper tube "filters" - their primary effects being to diminish the draw in your pipe while not really doing much else at all in reducing moisture in your smoke. Stingers may condense some moisture, but that's just it - they also...
  18. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    GL Pease Chelsea Morning in a Peterson Hudson XL21. Masala chai to accompany, on a blessedly cooler morning.
  19. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    HH Old Dark Fired in a Peterson 80s. Strong-brewed black tea with cream to accompany.
  20. marlinspike

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    C&D Blockade Runner in a Falcon shillelagh stem with a "bulldog" briar bowl. Masala chai to accompany. This will probably be my only bowl today, as we're going to have temps of 100 here (my hat is off to the guys who smoke in hot, humid climes year 'round!).
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