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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
Kind of a bittersweet round of golf today...my friend just sold her house, and this course is "members only," so this may have been the last time I get to play this 9-hole par 30. Made the most of it and shot +10 (my age!). Accompanying me was Mac Baren Plumcake in a MM Dagner poker. Puffing in...- Servant King
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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4th Pipes Magazine Zoom Meeting
The smallest ones are also the girthiest ones.- Servant King
- Post #25
- Forum: Pipe Events
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Seattle Pipe Club Vegas show announcement.
I've consistently done everything possible in my time here to ensure that no one finds me to be decent. It would appear that my efforts have come up short--perhaps I missed my calling as a bookkeeper for the now defunct Mac Baren family? The only other libation that felt befitting of the Vegas...- Servant King
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Seattle Pipe Club Vegas show announcement.
It's only 10:30. They're all probably still doing jello shots and dancing to Depeche Mode.- Servant King
- Post #32
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Escudo Cellaring Question
Unless a seal becomes compromised, I see no reason to open and transfer any round tin. Square/rectangular tins and paint can-style tins are another matter entirely.- Servant King
- Post #4
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
Sample #3 from @Goblin_Walrus was C&D St. Paddy's Day Reserve in my aromatic pipe, a Savinelli Miele 641 KS smooth bent apple. Wifey grabbed a cigarillo and joined me. Quite smooth, this one (the bowl, not the wife...actually, the wife too, nevermind). Much obliged! 9/10 Bird report...- Servant King
- Post #3,555
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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4th Pipes Magazine Zoom Meeting
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- Post #22
- Forum: Pipe Events
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
Capped off a hectic workweek (I know, department of redundancy department) and celebrated a half-birthday in one fell swoop with #2 in my sample pack from @Goblin_Walrus , C&D Dawn XXV in my non-lat non-aromatic pipe, a Stefano Santambrogio smooth bent Rhodesian. Tried drying it slightly less...- Servant King
- Post #3,381
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
Until that comes, you can stretch the sample a bit by adding a little VA to it, which I did to make it more palatable. I call it Briar Faux. :LOL: Enjoy!- Servant King
- Post #3,199
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Mac baren bulk
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- Post #9
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
First time try of a sample of C&D Firebird Flake, courtesy of @Goblin_Walrus . Nice, but I prefer its original name, Blend for Jim Rockford: Note: this blend tastes best when smoked while wearing plaid pants and a tweed sport jacket. Don't ask me how I know this. 7/10 Bird report: House...- Servant King
- Post #3,053
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Enjoyment of simplicity or one Dimensional?
For me, variety is the spice of life. But variety not just as it applies to blends, but also, to your point, to the type of smoke I want at any given time. There are times when I want something utterly simple, and there are times when I want something that's got a whole lot going on in it. For...- Servant King
- Post #2
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Newminster 403 vs. 400
@Richmond B. Funkenhouser is right, those two are markedly different. As for being happy with the 400, I'd be jumping for joy if I scored any discontinued blend. No different for 400, it's a kick ass blend, easily one of my favorites in the straight VA genre, and it's got some stiff competition...- Servant King
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Multiple pipes smoking
Reminds me a little bit of Roland Kirk:- Servant King
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion
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Perfect Age for Virginia
Five years. I'm itching to see what all the hoopla is about regarding PSLBF.- Servant King
- Post #18
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Feedback Loop Disintegration, Anyone?
Only one sensible thing to do at a time like this.- Servant King
- Post #5
- Forum: General Discussion
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Opening A Tin? Show Us!
Great month, great year. 🤭- Servant King
- Post #2,139
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***
First things first...congratulations @TheIronMonkey on your nuptials! We're October wedding brothers now too. 🍁🍂 Embittered by a Scrabble loss vs. wifey instigated by a late-game pickup of several useless high-point letters, I trudged outside for a first-time try of C&D King Cake (sample) in my...- Servant King
- Post #2,440
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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4th Pipes Magazine Zoom Meeting
You only have to do the first two. Back in the old days, there was a guy who took to doing them on camera for the rest of the group. He's in Vienna now, in a rubber room, with a wide variety of white smoking jackets that bind the arms to the torso. Tough to get good leaf over there, but the food...- Servant King
- Post #14
- Forum: Pipe Events