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USPS sucks
You'll be paying for Government mail and franking privileges one way or another. And of course, as a former UPS employee I know that the private market has its own customer service issues. We lost one of our largest shipping clients in the region because someone didn't pull a Next Day Air...- elbert
- Post #21
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pensacola FL Area?
I'd be curious as well, as I've got family around Destin.- elbert
- Post #2
- Forum: Pipe Clubs
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Photos of You
This must be the first picture we've seen of Brad where he doesn't have half a tree hanging out of his mouth!- elbert
- Post #129
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Help Inspire My Next Pipe
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USPS sucks
They handle 500 million pieces a day. You can drop an envelope into a blue box for the cost of a stamp and have it delivered anywhere in the country. First-world problems much? Eh...must be time for bed.- elbert
- Post #14
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Photos of You
Foggy, you become more sagely every day!- elbert
- Post #125
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Considering A Move to Oregon
With Washington and California right next door, I'd be worried. Washington seems to be a tobacco dead-zone.- elbert
- Post #3
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What's Your Goal
It's funny, just last night I opened a Word document and started typing out a wishlist to give my next order (which will be the biggest thus far) some focus. I've only tried eleven blends so far, so my current goal is still fairly broad--I want to find the best in each category. My second goal...- elbert
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What Is Your Smoking Cadence?
On the whole probably a little fast, but the truth is it varies widely even within the bowl. If it seems well lit, I'll slow down a little, but when I start to lose the ember I'll "push" through the pipe and then draw and puff several times in quick succession. By pushing lightly through the...- elbert
- Post #11
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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What's The Tobacco That You Always Wish You Had More Of?
For goodness' sake, somebody please give MLC some Velvan Plug! :wink:- elbert
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Would you advise your children to smoke a pipe?
Some of the family members who criticize my smoking have no qualms about sitting out a fire pit for hours every week, breathing in smoke and stinking up their clothes, while their stinging watering eyes watch plume after plume of pollutants soar skyward. It's not a "necessary" fire--they don't...- elbert
- Post #37
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Where'd the FVF go?
Some of it just went into my pipe. Not sure where the rest is... :wink:- elbert
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Happy Dwarves' New Year!
There appears to be controversy on that point. In the calendar of the Shire, the summer and winter solstices (Lithe and Yule) are referred to as "Mid-Summer" and "Mid-Winter" respectively--not the start of the season, but the traditional (if not exact) middle of it. Winter is understood, then...- elbert
- Post #3
- Forum: General Discussion
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Happy Dwarves' New Year!
Not to steal the thunder from that other thread (Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!), but I know I'm not the only part-time denizen of Middle-Earth hereabouts. As it happens, today (October 12-13) is the first day of the New Year on the lunar calendar of the Dwarves. It was during the New Moon of...- elbert
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- Forum: General Discussion
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If I Were Trump...
Elon Musk (paypal) runs SpaceX. And I don't know about the Government giving them whatever they need. Between the stupidly short-sighted Helium sell-off and the lack of concern over the Chinese monopoly on rare-earth elements, it doesn't seem like our leaders are bothering themselves over our...- elbert
- Post #30
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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G.L. Pease Sixpence, A Review
I'm glad you liked it! If I remember correctly, you ordered around the time I posted a little review of my own. I'm always hesitant to give recommendations because (as with your case) my palate just isn't "there". But like you said, Sixpence is a solid win.- elbert
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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If I Were Trump...
I'm still waiting for someone to start harvesting digested tobacco leaves from the feces of the Asian Palm Civet, so that I can finally spend the money that would be required to buy the kind of quality blend that I so richly deserve.- elbert
- Post #16
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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If I Were Trump...
I'm with redpanda--but by "nice house" I mean a quaint and well built little cottage on a low hill somewhere, surrounded by pasture, field, stream, and woodlot, miles from any neighbor.- elbert
- Post #6
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Nicotine sensitive people, why do you smoke a pipe?
I used to be a "nicotine-denier", but these days...I came here to dance, dammit, so the good lady had better show. But it depends on the day, too. Sometimes I'm happy with a lighter smoke. On the subject of Nicotine's diverse effects, here's Christopher Hitchens after he quit smoking...- elbert
- Post #42
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Your first pipe smoking role model
The strange old eccentric who stood outside the Perkins downtown with his beard, his briar, and his windcap between cups of coffee at all hours of the night. I've been meaning to write up a little vignette on the forum about him.- elbert
- Post #23
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion