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  1. MisterBadger

    Peterson's Nightcap From A Non-Orientalist Perspective

    An habitual Virginia/Burley/Kentucky/Perique smoker who has not touched an Oriental leaf for years, I thought maybe I was getting too set in my ways, and, intrigued by the clash of opinions about it, I resolved to purchase a sample pack. Broadly speaking, I concur with Mr. Muttonchop on YouTube...
  2. MisterBadger

    McConnell's Black Parrot - Not Black, But Can Bite Like A Parrot

    Bought some in a fit of absentmindedness the other day, without first reading what anyone else thought about it. Well, I've tried it in two Meers, two briars and a clay, and maybe my palate has been ruined over a half century of smoking and my nicotine tolerance has become too high for me to...
  3. MisterBadger

    Gawith Hoggarth Extra S Brown Pigtail Twist

    This twist, being thin, curls like a pig’s tail - hence the name. The uncut rope has a bitter, woody pungency characteristic of dark fired Virginias. When cut into thin coins and rubbed out, the strong, peaty aroma intensifies and deepens, and you can get a brief and mild nicotine hit simply by...
  4. MisterBadger

    How Best To Dry Out A Damp Morta?

    A week ago I managed to lose my Chris Askwith Canadian morta, somewhere on the farm. Miraculously, Mrs. Badger found it today, half hidden in damp grass and leaves where, presumably, it had fallen from my pocket. I rejoice, but... it's rained a couple or three times this past week, and the pipe...
  5. MisterBadger

    Oh Mah Gaahd... Yet Another Review Of GH Rum Twist

    Recent appreciations of Gawith & Hoggarth's Rum Twist, and vehement disagreements thereon in this forum, have prompted me to see for myself what all the fuss is about. Some say that the newer batches can't hold a match to the wonder that GH Rum Twist used to be in years gone by, and I wouldn't...
  6. MisterBadger

    I've Seen It All Now - Japanese Fighting Pipes

    Kenka-Kiseru: The Japanese Fighting Pipe Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the kiseru is its adaptability as both a smoking implement and a weapon of self defense. At the time when smoking was first introduced, Japan was experiencing the waning years of the Sengoku Jidai, or Warring...
  7. MisterBadger

    Samuel Gawith's Black Twist XX

    I had the great good fortune to have been gifted a length of what at first sight looks like the Ancient Mariner's tarred pigtail, a black pudding, a Boerwors or something the neighbour's dog might have left on your lawn. The card accompanying the gift informed me that it was purchased in 2015...
  8. MisterBadger

    Thuoc Lao Tien Lang Vietnamese Tobacco

    This is the infamous, almost legendary Vietnamese weed, supposedly a Rusticana variety packing three times the nicotine punch of US and African tobaccos, and of which not very much information that's useful to a pipe smoker is available on the internet. It's sold in the UK by a very small number...
  9. MisterBadger

    Worst eBay Pipe Sale Description Ever

    Title: Lacking format. Rule 9. I had to share this with you all. Someone has clearly taken the recent option eBay offers to provide an AI listing description: "This vintage Reject London made half bent billiard estate smoking pipe is a must-have for any collector or smoking enthusiast. Crafted...
  10. MisterBadger

    An Ode to Samuel Gawith's '1792'—Apologies to Dr. Suess

    I am Sam. I am Sam. Sam-I-Am. That Sam-I-Am! That Sam-I-Am! I loathe your weed, O Sam-I-Am! But would you like your pipe to cram, With Seventeen-Ninety-Two, my man? I would not like it, Sam-I-Am! I'm not an aromatics man. To tell the truth, I am not keen To smoke that stinky Tonkin-bean...
  11. MisterBadger

    Tobacco Restrictions In Connecticut

    I'm posting this here, rather than in 'Tobacciana History', in hopes it will give comfort to any who are fearing that the latter-day Puritans will prevail and make our lives miserable (for our own good, of course). If our Moderator orders its removal, so be it: I shall cut and paste it on the...
  12. MisterBadger

    The Sweetest Draw?

    Title edited for caps and length. See rule 9. Original: "Why does the sweetest draw on a pipe always seem to occur just as it is about to go out?" This. It's like the legendary "swan song". I just think I'm learning the perfect cadence for the blend in question, but then suddenly I'm sucking...
  13. MisterBadger

    Have You ever Seen the Like?

    Found this on a French eBay seller's site: never seen anything like it before. Seller's description says the stem is cow bone and the stummel is horn, but there appears to be some kind of ceramic bowl inset - or could it be Catlinite? around which the horn may have been wrapped. Any ideas, folks?
  14. MisterBadger

    "That Fantasticall Herbe"

    Title edited for length. Original: "That Fantasticall Herbe": Authoritarianism and Anti-Tobacco Legislation in early 17thC England A long read, yet, my masters, well worth your patience...
  15. MisterBadger

    Sir Walter Raleigh's Tobacco Pouch and Pipes!?

    Title edited for caps and this caveat: (well, allegedly). If only some of the tobacco had survived for subjection to modern analytical techniques...
  16. MisterBadger

    A Smoking Room

    Inspired by the Alhambra and designed and constructed as a smoking room by an independently wealthy lady as a surprise present for her husband, a Navy man, while he was at sea. What a nice homecoming, don't you think? I used to live nearby and visited when it was still privately owned. The story...
  17. MisterBadger

    Maybe Very Old Meerschaum - Your Advice Entreated

    This arrived in the post this afternoon. I paid silly money for it in an auction at which I was the only bidder (the postage cost more than the pipe). Now, O Wise Ones, I have two questions to ask: 1. Date and provenance? There are no marks on it whatever. The silver band is not hallmarked...
  18. MisterBadger

    Dedicated Pipes

    Not sure whether this is a basic question, or an Intermediate, or an Advanced... and apologies if a similar thread already exists (I've had a cursory look, but there are so many). Anyhow... given that one can only own so many pipes, and that rotating them is generally considered desirable, I...
  19. MisterBadger

    Concerning some who Denigrate Pipe Smoking

    I know this is fictional, but it's clearly based on Professor Tolkien's personal experiences of a certain kind of person who can not only not see the point of pipe-smoking, but who also denigrate it. I think we have all met such folk, found it very hard to like them at all, and on further...
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