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  1. mso489

    Sir Fred, Feline Smoking Companion

    Here's one of my two Maine Coon lookalike rescue cats out of a drainpipe in Fuqua-Varina, N.C., where the cat rescue group was afraid the litter would drown in the rain. Because I was working full time, they asked me to adopt both him and his brother, Lefty, who is all gray but turns lavender...
  2. mso489

    Any Thoughts on the Current Crop of GBD's from England?

    I only have a few English pipes -- a Ferndown, a Parker, and a Britannia. I know GBD is a transplant from France. I know G.L. Pease collects them, perhaps mostly the French production. I don't hear much about the current "crop." Any reviews, comments, critiques, or scandalous rumors?
  3. mso489

    Al Pascia Site, New Features, More Brands

    Al Pascia has always had one of the classy sites as a sponsor on Forums, but it seems to have take some steps up lately, more brands, more pipes from each brand, and nifty translation features to give you either metric and non-metric specs and EU or USD prices. Also included is a beautiful shot...
  4. mso489

    Russian Military Explores U.S. Limit in the Arctic

    Lots of activity by the Russian navy and air force in pushing the limits of U.S. territorial waters, written up at some length in the NYT today. Fishing boats have been warned by radio to clear out of legal fishing areas so submarines can launch cruise missiles, with warnings backed up by...
  5. mso489

    A Brief Word For Science

    Science is science, an mode of thought, experiment, and unending review and reconsideration, that has raised the species from hunting and gathering to genetics and the cosmos. The answers science provides may serve people, but people can never order up the answers that they choose. Usually...
  6. mso489

    Smoking Pipes Location, Geographic and Architectural

    Could someone fill me in a little on smoking pipes.com's location and what their establishment looks like? I've been buying pipes and tobacco from them for eight or ten years or more. They bought a pipe to a show to save me shipping, on spec. They are the masters of customer service, and I've...
  7. mso489

    What Happened to What Are You Smoking Thread?

    Hopefully, as soon as I post this, it will pop back up, but what happened to the What Are You Smoking thread? I've never seen it gone missing before, and sometimes when the month changes, there are two of them up. But right now, Nov. 9, 2020, I can't find it anywhere in current discussions or...
  8. mso489

    Serial Bowls, And I Don't Mean Cheerios

    Trying to work a pipe into the general rush of life, I've decided that often smoking a bowl in three or more sittings or standings is sometimes the best. I don't find that letting a bowl go cold and then relighting three, six, twelve hours later diminishes the bowl at all. I'd much prefer to...
  9. mso489

    Do You Ever Re-clean Your Pipes Before Smoking

    I habitually clean my pipes after I smoke them to set up for the next bowl in that pipe. Since I have about 92 pipes, each gets a good long rest. Lately I've noticed I also like to spruce them up before I smoke them, a pipe cleaner, maybe a bristle pipe cleaner to the airway and bit, and some...
  10. mso489

    Daylight Savings Ends, The Clocks Fall Back

    A public service reminder for areas that observe the return to standard time, which actually occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday morning, but requires resetting your clocks before you retire for the night. I dislike the early dark days of November, and especially the evenings when it feels like ten p.m. at...
  11. mso489

    Pipe Shape Ink Blot Test

    Just for fun, what sort of person would you associate with one of the traditional pipe shapes? My great variety of pipe shapes might indicate a severe case of multiple personality, and I guess many of us with lots of pipes would be. So we have to imagine that a person smokes mostly one shape...
  12. mso489

    Is BC Pipes Still In Business?

    About a year ago, maybe less, word went out that the venerable French pipe maker BC was going out of business. Several on Forums were sorry to hear it, and that's that last I heard. Except there's no evidence in recent days that they have. Online retailers still offer pages of their pipes...
  13. mso489

    Home Haircut

    I almost dove into self-barbering a few weeks after a friend did a minor trim on my hair. I also almost gave the barber at the little strip mall nearby a visit. But my wife bought some barber scissors online and offered to give it a try. I think she'd given one other haircut years ago. I was...
  14. mso489

    It Ain't Like Before

    Went for take-out at our old favorite Lebanese grocery and deli, and to buy some groceries. It was a shock. The little grocery has lost all its aisles with shelves, having only those against the walls. Many items were sold out. I did get the last olive oil in a jug and feta cheese, but no...
  15. mso489

    Tobacco Plants: I Missed My Botany Course

    As a Boomer, I went to college when many courses filled up before I got to registration at my assigned time, so no botany for me. I got put in vertebrate physiology with a bunch of pre-meds, and in geology courses that were terrific. But I've always been a little slack on botany. So ... Do...
  16. mso489

    The Special Tampers Always Get Away

    I've joked from time to time about how you may lose a pipe tamper or tool, but you will never lose a pipe nail because they cost about 99 cents. They will follow you home. Now I have gone and lost a willow tamper that was thrown in as a sweetener when my wife gave me a gift card for a Two...
  17. mso489

    Alternate Outlets For Pipes and Blends?

    Since pipe shops are few and far between, and those that exist are on thin ice, I keep wondering what other businesses might take on pipes and pipe blends as a sideline. The obvious possibility of cigar shops and lounges immediately raises the point that cigar sellers don't want people smoking...
  18. mso489

    Louise Gluck, Nobel Prize in Literature

    Louise Gluck is the 2020 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. I think the NYT has one of the best reports on the person and the poet. I happened to be one of her students in the writing program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1973, fresh back from the Navy and the waters...
  19. mso489

    Anyone Remember the Ford Falcon Automobile?

    The Falcon pipe is often discussed on Forums, but who remembers the Ford Falcon? It was a little econo-car from the 1960's that was run out to compete with the sales success of the VW bug. It was basic, homely, inexpensive, and troubled by a gas tank that was said to explode in wrecks. My...
  20. mso489

    Won't Stay Lit

    I'm new to Peterson Irish Flake, but I love the flavor, hearty and rich. I dry it out in a pottery bowl and rub it out well, but it doesn't stay lit. I like it so much, I just go ahead and relight carelessly -- it's that good. But I may try grating it to make it even smaller, in hopes of an...
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