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  1. newbroom

    I Started With Matches

    I Started With Matches The title, which doesn't appear in the thread once you begin to read it (except for my reprint) is not about the late Matches 860, although, I did visit his youtube site regularly while John was alive. I certainly didn't try to emulate his smoking cadence, but his general...
  2. newbroom

    Initial Enthusiasm Resulted in Acquisition Disorders

    I started smoking pipes back in 2014 after a year's retirement, an illness, stress, and general principles. The first couple/three or 4 years were spent in a blissful exploration and acquisition of inexpensive elements of the 'hobby'. I now have more pipes than i can smoke and enough tobacco to...
  3. newbroom

    NBA 2024 Playoffs

    I've been a basketball player and fan since childhood. I was on my first championship team as a 'biddy leaguer' in my final yr. of play at that level. I was 12. I was on another championship team in the Indian River County Men's league 37 yrs later in 1997. I've never played other than town...
  4. newbroom

    Past, Present, or Future?

    We live in space. We share time. Our sense of being is impacted by our sense of time. By default, we are tensed within our own mortality. I ponder these ideas and I think, am I too tense? I'll smoke a bowl and that always helps me to relax. I think, the experience of life is intense. Just like...
  5. newbroom

    Diversity and Inclusion.

    One of the attractions to pipe smoking is the phenomenal variation available both in pipes and in tobacco. I never realized that Pipes and tobacco were such a worldwide and complex pastime. We see blends made famous by blenders and by celebrities or just plain Old Joe Krantz by the hundreds or...
  6. newbroom

    Keeping an Open Mind

    Keeping an Open Mind: Re-examining Latakia and Aromatic tobacco blends. I had discontinued most of my aromatic and Latakia explorations and been focused on non aromatic bulk tobacco featuring VA, Burley, and Perique. I ordered some Sutliff and Match blends on a whim prompted by my diminishing...
  7. newbroom

    My Pride is Showing

    Well, that's just to get you to look. This is about why I like the Missouri Meerschaum Pride model the best of my assorted MM cobs. It's lightweight. It's incredibly tactile! I imagine that it's how that suedeblast finish Walt Cannoy puts on some of his pipes feels. I suppose they make other...
  8. newbroom

    WHO says "Big Tobacco Is 'Poisoning Our Planet"

    [Title edited.] URL unfurl="true"]https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/31/big-tobacco-poisoning-our-planet-says-who[/URL] "The environmental consequences of tobacco use move it from being a human problem to a planetary problem," states the WHO. "Tobacco can no longer be categorized simply...
  9. newbroom

    My First Time Smoking a New Briar Pipe

    I've been smoking pipes now for about or almost 8 yrs. Until this week I hadn't ever smoked an unsmoked briar. (well, not since when I was about 50 yrs younger and had no idea) Fellow forum member and a pipe maker in his own right since joining us here, Chris Besse, has gifted me yet another...
  10. newbroom

    When It's Time to Relax

    I have listened to most, surely not all of the pipes magazine radio show with Brian Levine, who asks his interviewees; 'when it's time to relax, which do you prefer, a book, a movie, or music?" I'm sitting here on the 'back porch' in a rocking chair with a nice pipe and some tea as the sun...
  11. newbroom

    The Jury Has Reached a Decision

    That's right, and now we can all be assured that aromatic pipe tobacco outsells non-aromatic pipe tobacco. Packaged or bulk, the seasoned stuff is what is most often ordered. (what? you thought I was going to break a rule?)
  12. newbroom

    Fellow Member Initiates Hand Made Pipes Website

    Our good friend from Red Deer Alberta Canada, Chris Besse, has set up a website to showcase and sell his handcrafted pipes. I just got a notice that it's up and running, and I checked and he's got several pipes there already to negotiate, I assume, with potential buyers, their cost? Anyway, from...
  13. newbroom

    Single Portion Meals

    I live alone and do my best not to eat prepared foods. Cooking anything usually results in my having several portions to deal with and that reality sometimes limits my fervor for the chore. Lately I've been attempting to resolve the issue with experiments in single serving dishes, Last evening...
  14. newbroom

    In Memory of Matches860

    The news of Matches (aka: John Harden) having passed into the next stage of his existence has caused a lot of folks to think of him and what he has meant to their pipes and tobaccos experience. That John was reportedly only 64 yrs old should give us all pause to consider our own limitations and...
  15. newbroom

    This is a Pipe Wrench

    makes more sense than the normal "stiltson" type It's listed HERE.
  16. newbroom

    ***What Are YOU Smoking?*** July 2019

    Just smoked a bowl of 50/50 Va and Burley in a Grabow Westbrook straight apple wire brush finish.
  17. newbroom

    Vertical Marketing, Supply & Demand, Brand

    Ok, so, I used to drink beer. Sometimes I even drank in public. Once I went to a 'pub' with a weekly trivia contest as a guest of regulars. We all got stupid, or at least I did. I was having a blast, until about 2 hours in, the waitress announced to our table that there was no more Budweiser. I...
  18. newbroom

    A Birthday Surprise From a Forum Friend

    I recently clicked another yr on the ageometer and was very pleasantly surprised to receive a hand made maple billiard. I can die a happy man now, cuz I got a Besse from Red Deer Alberta!
  19. newbroom

    Just Under An Ounce A Day

    Just under an ounce a day. That's how much tobacco I burn. I smoke about 7 or 8 bowls I guess, on average...and I've read that the average pipe which I am assuming is a group 4, requires approx. 3 grams of tobacco. So, that computes to just under a half pound of tobacco a week, with some...
  20. newbroom

    Cigar Event in Hollywood FL - FYI

    I stumbled upon this website this a.m. I think it might be of interest. https://www.cigaraficionado.com/article/big-smoke-florida-this-saturday
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