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  1. mso489

    With Whom Would you Light Up?

    My late wife taught at a women's college in N.C. and had as a student one of Faulkner's grand daughters. She said among the family, there wasn't much conversation about his literary life. To her, he was just Grandpa. When he went to Hollywood to write scripts, he became homesick and phoned...
  2. mso489

    Blends That Compliment Each Other

    Not exactly, but I do believe that rotating genres helps keep the tastes of blends fresh. Like, it will prevent burning out on Latakia and/or Perique, if you smoke some burley, oriental, or cigar leaf alternating with the Lat and Per blends. I think the spelling for this purpose is complement...
  3. mso489

    With Whom Would you Light Up?

    Wanting to hear someone speak, as at a podium, and wanting to spend some time with someone are two different things. So much would depend on the chemistry. Would Einstein care to speak with someone who is not mathematical? Would Twain just do his podium routine anyway, and do all the...
  4. mso489

    How Many In Your Rotation...

    I tend to circle five or six blends at any particular time, but I have about twenty open tins, jars, pouches, etc. At least. I think that's about a third of my total "cellar."
  5. mso489

    Popularity Of The Cutty Style Pipe.

    That tiny tilt doesn't count as canted in my book. I suppose it is in the eye of the beholder. I've never bought a cutty pipe because I don't like a bowl that far tipped, but I have several that tilt as much as the one pictured, and I have no complaints with any of them. If I was gifted a...
  6. mso489

    Shortwave Radio and QSL Cards

    I haven't twiddled with radios since I was assigned a new duty station and off the minesweeper in 1970, before half the membership was born, and I still remember what a QSL card is. I was a radioman second class, and that was enough for me. I had personal relationships with radio frequencies...
  7. mso489

    Punchline Only!

    So which pipe did you decide to buy?
  8. mso489

    You Know You've Been on the Forum for Too Long When...

    When you find yourself doing riffs you've done on Forums in personal conversations, and you can't remember if you''ve posted a particular bowl of blend here on What Are You Smoking ... or not. When you realize you have rewritten your advice to new smokers 482 times. When your references to...
  9. mso489

    ***What Are You Smoking, September, 2023?***

    Esoterica Tilbury, a smooth Virginia with rich burley as a condiment, in a Johs (Mogen Johansen) straight smooth bulldog with bead lines. The blend is courtesy of fellow member SBC, and a tip of the cap to my Danish carver. His pipes have never done me wrong. Just dropped my wife off at her...
  10. mso489

    Types and Brands of Pipe Tobacco, 1920's to 1940's

    My dad smoked a pipe from the 1920's until the 1980's when he quit to take a job at a non-smoking campus. He owned only one pipe at a time and smoked only Granger from a pouch. Standard over-the-counter brands were available everywhere -- at grocery stores, drugstores, newsstands, and gas...
  11. mso489

    Coffee Grinder

    I always buy ground coffee, but my wife says she's never been to a yard sale where she couldn't buy a coffee grinder that works for less than five bucks. I'm the breakfast cook, so I don't want to stop to grind the beans.
  12. mso489

    Peterson 2023 Christmas Pipe

    That's a classic take and would look great any time of year. Good job, Peterson. I assume the bands are real silver and that the pipes are priced accordingly, with quality control to back it up. I'm not in the market, but I do enjoy my Petes.
  13. mso489

    Your Morning Martini and Smoke

    Years ago my late wife and I stayed with a "real drinker" for a week on the West Coast. I marveled at how early and often this person enjoyed a drink. I mean, they were really in shape for it. My parents drank way more than I ever did, and I don't think they ever saw me with a buzz, much less...
  14. mso489

    Ideal tamper design?

    I have a Brebbia stainless steel tool with tamper, pick, and scoop, light weight and well made. I have a similar Dr. Grabow tool that is almost as good. I like the slight gadgetry aspect of them.
  15. mso489

    Brand New to Pipes and Already Learning Lessons

    Some lower priced new pipes that are worth a look are Dr. Grabow and Kaywoodie at the Virginia Smoke Shop and Ropp and Rossi at smokingpipes.com, one of the sponsors here. I appreciate your initiative in restoring an estate pipe, but getting started it might be good to have a new briar ready to...
  16. mso489

    Ideal tamper design?

    I have several good pipe tools like the Czech and stainless steel folding tools and a handsome tamper with a swirl plastic handle, not to mention a willow wood tamper, and I enjoy them all from time to time in different situations or just arbitrarily. But to tell the truth, the one I reach for...
  17. mso489

    In Praise of the Humble No. 400

    It sounds like you know a good thing when you taste it. This is an illustration of a blend that is available and excellent.
  18. mso489

    The Most Disappointing Tobacco

    Spilman Mixture is revived from an early Twentieth Century blend, but I find it too mild, and with a few edges for such a mild blend. I like most codger blends like Granger, SWR and SWR Aromatic, but I've never had an enjoyable bowl of Half & Half. This seems strange to me, because when I...
  19. mso489

    Thoughts From Millennials or Younger

    I'm a boomer, so help me, and I rarely meet with other pipe smokers of any age in person except at the local pipe shop where my visits have become rare with the pandemic and household commitments. However, I just bought a new computer, and the twenty-something guy who sold it to me and set it...
  20. mso489

    Is It Hotter Where You Live Now?

    Old folks and heat don't do well together, but our a.c. has held up well this summer. I think statistically it has been one of the warmest summers in history in this area, central North Carolina, but compared to some friends in the Southwest and even in the Northeast where a.c. is not standard...
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