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  1. Pooh-Bah

    US Pipe Tobacco Companies ?

    Oh, those are still under the Altria umbrella? ...just got into stocks and bought some Altria, I ought to try those for the good of my portfolio. :p
  2. Pooh-Bah

    Anyone Play Video Games?

    Not too strange, at least one early 3d game (Spyro) had it's camera changed for the Japanese release to prevent "3D Sickness" in players. You're probably in luck, because I don't think (in my lifetime at least) that there's been a broader range of video games with greater availability. As for...
  3. Pooh-Bah

    Yet More Blends I’d Like To See

    And it's bulk equivalent by Lane, 5-TC. Translator's Note: in Japanese, 5 is "Go".
  4. Pooh-Bah

    Unknown maker Meerschaum lined cork (!) pipe

    Once upon a time, a very drunk and confused moonshiner who somehow got his hands on the purest meerschaum, and also had no idea what "Missouri Meerschaum" meant but had seen one from the other side of the street once, decided that he wanted a Missouri Meerschaum so he made it himself.
  5. Pooh-Bah

    Pipe Rotation and Blend Advice/Recommendations?

    In order... 1- Generally I'll smoke anything in any of my pipes, with one exception: Everything that'll ghost like the Dickens (War Horse, Lakelands, etc) always goes into the same pipe, so my meerschaum billiard is basically a haunted house. 2- Browse online stores, look at tobacco reviews...
  6. Pooh-Bah

    ***What Are You Smoking, March 2025?***

    Rocky Patel Emerald cigar, which I was kindly gifted by a novice pipe smoker at the lounge in gratitude for sharing my knowledge and War Horse with him.
  7. Pooh-Bah

    What are You Reading Now?

    Having finished the last volume of Umineko When They Cry the other day, I needed something new to read while smoking. ...Y'know, Higurashi is technically a prequel to Umineko and I'd only watched the anime before. Time to fix that. Higurashi When They Cry, book one, Onikakushi. A...
  8. Pooh-Bah

    What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025

    Castro Brothers Blue Ridge.
  9. Pooh-Bah

    Getting into Cigars

    Another recommendation occurs to me: Vincent Manil has a couple different sizes of little cigar made of his Belgian Burley. Iirc (and if I can properly describe what I recall), the stuff's a little floral, kinda like if I were to try imagining a fusion of Oriental and Cigar leaf...
  10. Pooh-Bah

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***

    War Horse, Altinok Meerschaum Billiard with a silver band from where I cracked the stem. After a year or so of on-again-off-again reading: the end of Umineko. It was good the first time, but reading it through again, it was even better. There's specific phrase that tradition among its readers...
  11. Pooh-Bah

    What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025

    Punch Bottle Rocket. ...is what I wrote then apparently never hit post on several hours ago. Was pretty solid. Now, Trinidad Espiritu 3, recommended to me by one of the gents at the counter. I get notes of feet (but not in a bad way?) and black plastic floor mat, which may sound terrible but...
  12. Pooh-Bah

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***

    Ryback in my Li'l Ropp. Finally got back to reading Umineko, I'm at that long fight scene in the last book where everybody teams up to fight off the monsters that are eating their reality. .......This is a murder mystery.
  13. Pooh-Bah

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***

    Dual-wielding a pipe of Tuggle Hall and a Moontrance cigar. At my side is a travel mug of black coffee (dark roast) and a snifter of Pierre Ferrand Dry Curacao.
  14. Pooh-Bah

    Getting into Cigars

    Toscanos hardly even count as cigars, because they aren't what one pictures from the word "cigar" in form or flavor, but they may be up your alley. They can be smoked from either end (and, in fact, it's not uncommon to cut one in half to smoke later or share with a friend immediately). Little...
  15. Pooh-Bah

    Tonquin Beans

    Amazon sells them in the US (~$2/bean), as I just now discovered. I believe their legality here is "Banned in food, but they have non-edible uses like the expensive perfume worn by some legislators, so a complete ban would just be silly".
  16. Pooh-Bah

    PipesAndCigars.Com: Are They Trustworthy?

    I rolled the dice some more to hoard War Horse and snag some HH; each order I've placed with them over these few years has had less packing material than the last and more advertisements for other business. Judging by the tins all just clattering about unimpeded in the box that last shipment...
  17. Pooh-Bah

    What Are You Drinking? February 2025

    I'll assume you haven't killed your absinthe yet and recommend what I usually do: Set an ounce or so in a tall glass full of ice cubes, and drink it over the course of an hour or three as the ice melts. No sugar, no nothin'.
  18. Pooh-Bah

    What Are You Drinking? February 2025

    It's been the better part of a year, at least, since I've mixed a Jack Rose. Which is odd, because it's my favorite cocktail. Back in the 40s (iirc), a New York tax accountant wrote a book on cocktails, and said that there were six drinks everyone should know: Martini, Manhattan, Old-Fashioned...
  19. Pooh-Bah

    ***What Are You Smoking, February 2025?***

    Mad Fiddler, meer billiard, sunny enough to be comfortable outside but windy enough for cold fingertips.
  20. Pooh-Bah

    What Cigar Are You Smoking? 2025

    Placenscia 151 - recommended to me at the cigar shop as something similar to the Rocky Patel Emerald (which appears to be my favorite so far). Temperature? Near 50. Wind? Single digits. Skies? Sunny. Finally, proper smoking weather.
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