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  1. BingBong

    No Luck with Hallmark

    I think I've mentioned here about the young woman at work who was very excited to be buying water butts to maintain her garden with rainwater. I advised her that they should be drained before the frosts came and the taps removed; the holes to be filled with temporary bungs. You will find butt...
  2. BingBong

    Rattray’s Old Gowrie OR McConnell’s Scottish Flake?

    OG least perique, BC most, I think. All use DFK. There was a thread about this, let me rootle around. https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/old-gowrie-vs-hal-o-the-wynd-vs-brown-clunee.95202/
  3. BingBong

    Rattray’s Old Gowrie OR McConnell’s Scottish Flake?

    Old Gowrie / Hal o' the Wynd / Brown Clunee are all the same VaKyPer components in different proportions.
  4. BingBong

    Rattray’s Old Gowrie OR McConnell’s Scottish Flake?

    HotW? Better balanced than OG, imho.
  5. BingBong

    No Luck with Hallmark

    I think you're right. 1907.
  6. BingBong

    No Luck with Hallmark

    Glasgow mark, 1904? They cycled every 20, a Glasgow assay would make more sense. I would go so far as to say definitely not Chester - Perth (if it was still in operation), Edinburgh or Newcastle all much closer if Glasgow unavailable, Chester is almost North Wales, a long way away.
  7. BingBong

    No Luck with Hallmark

    Possibly a Glasgow mark. https://www.silvercollection.it/dictionarytobacconistj.html shows JCS in a rectangle as John Cohen & Son, Glasgow
  8. BingBong

    The Boy's Been Watching Cartoons

    I like a bit of mild dizziness, that's a bonus, but sucking Bayou Morning smoke right into my lungs first thing was a new experience - I haven't had that big a blast since a F&T Deluxe Filter cigarette in about 1974 (they were super strong, handmade)! I don't usually take down pipe smoke...
  9. BingBong

    Info needed if possinle

    A 5 star Lee, very nice. The hon. member for Humansville will be impressed.
  10. BingBong

    TAD Acquisitions 2025

    100g Germain's Medium Flake (at last!), bulk. Naturally, went out of stock the same day, but at least I snagged some. And very nice it is, too.
  11. BingBong

    Opening A Tin? Show Us!

    Just arrived, Germain's Medium Flake from bulk - more a broken flake than tidy slices. For immediate consumption.
  12. BingBong

    The Boy's Been Watching Cartoons

    Just now and again, in fact most infrequently nowadays, I get a stupid notion in my noggin to test this or that unlikely theory. This morning, the thought came to me, prior to any tea and with an empty stomach, to roll a makin's in a long thin OCB, filling it with C&D Bayou Morning. Stuck a...
  13. BingBong

    TR Appears Back Online

    Blocked in the UK.
  14. BingBong

    Fresh vs Jarred

    I like FVF or Cabbies either fresh and aged in a jar. Germain's SLF fresh .. meh... after some weeks in a jar, nice, after some years in a jar, jackpot. The C&D blends I've tried get much better once the can has been open a few days. Solani ABF, fresh from the tin please. So it depends on the...
  15. BingBong

    (GAME#4) Pick The Correct Pipe

    Killarney.
  16. BingBong

    Ive hit a sentimental jackpot!

    One of my friends is a refugee from Sarajevo, she's there now on holiday so I sent her a PM about Drina - yes, they are still on sale, she was shocked that I knew :ROFLMAO:
  17. BingBong

    What’s Your Favorite Esoterica/Germain’s Blend?

    I've set my notify now. Also gone on the Smoke-King list; they've started rationing, because the same two or three customers kept clearing them out and they got sick of it.
  18. BingBong

    Beard Dye

    It has crossed my mind to do that, just to amuse myself and others - it would probably look ridiculous, to be fair. If it was a few grey strands causing an aging crisis, maybe, but let's be real here...