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A Visit to Jon's Pipe Shop Clayton Missouri
Here’s how we got there— https://share.google/9D7PnMsevEyaDu6C7 You’d best take a bath and clean up and powder under both armpits in Clayton Missouri, it’s a high toned neighborhood. The police ride around on horseback. https://slmpd.org/mounted/... -
Missouri Meerschaum Great Dane
Cost- $35.29 for 8 ounces at Washington Mo factory or online Highly Recommended Made by Sutliff but could be made by any blender To my taste this is Carter Hall with black cavendish and tart European pie cherry and vanilla flavorings, tastes as good as pipe tobacco smells. Here’s the...- Briar Lee
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Ruminations Regarding Smoking Quality
There’s a school of thought that briar quality is most important to smoking quality, and as long as I can remember I’ve been of that school. It’s briar, not the boring of the briar. Another school teaches the importance of construction. Subtle differences in chamber size, draft hole length... -
Bruno Nuttens Thirds
Sometimes I read about all them there expensive high dollar boutique carver pipes the other boys buy and brag about and flash all around, and I dang near get all busted up about it. My wife and me was over to Arrow Rock yesterday picking up a food order from Catalpa restaurant and the place... -
$65 Spanish Muxaing Large Author
This pipe was commissioned by a pipe company in Madrid Spain to be made in China and shipped to a hundred miles East of Bug Tussle. My total cost was $65. My city and state got $5. The shipping for two postal services and customs inspections was $10. My patriotic contribution to America’s... -
Question About Temple Bar
Today my wife and I went to Columbia Missouri and I bought six cans of GL Pease tobacco from Wayne Davis at Jon’s Pipe Shop. One was Temple Bar. It really is a bar of tobacco. Wayne Davis was talking about a conversion he had with Adlia Stevenson II about Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall...- Briar Lee
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Ding Dong Murder
When I was a boy, my mother always told me as I left the house to go out on the town —- Christ sees every little thing you do… AND DON’T DO!!! Please come home safe to me, Vanny And most usually I’d be home by the time she set as I didn’t want her to worry But being a boy; occasionally I’d...- Briar Lee
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Edward’s Algerian Saddle Stem Square Shank 1/8 Bent Large Pot
Here is an uncommonly good pipe for only $26 delivered tax and shipping paid. When I buy these I first look at the stem. Oxidation can easily be removed, in minutes. But a chewed up stem needs replaced, and it shows lots of use and abuse to get it chewed up. Every cigar in the world has... -
The Good Samaritan Mayor
I’ve been watching the news all my life and usually it’s bad news that makes the headlines. But when appropriate the news editors report a story like America’s Mayor Rudy Gulianni stopping his rental car in New Hampshire to come to the aid of a victim of domestic violence on the roadside, at...- Briar Lee
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Corded Electric 8” Pole Saw Combo
I own three good chainsaws and a good gas pole saw, all at our farm. My wife correctly noted our yard has trees that need pruning and ordered this corded 8” Pole Saw combo for about $100, for our yard. I found a couple of super heavy duty extension cords and read the manual and fired it up...- Briar Lee
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$20 Grabow Golden Duke Adjustomatic
When you read how expensive a lot of estate pipes are today,,I think it’s well to consider a 1965-70 Dr Grabow Golden Duke Adjustomatic. I own about a half dozen of these and Dr Grabow sold a ton of them judging by how many survive. Somehow, Grabow managed to score a huge cache of the same... -
Niagara Falls Tour Bus Disaster
At least 5 dead, 24 injured in New York tour bus crash NTSB confirms it is sending go-team to investigate New York bus crash By Alexandra Koch Fox News Published August 22, 2025 1:35pm EDTUpdated August 22, 2025 1:49pm EDT A tour bus traveling from Niagara Falls to New York City rolled over...- Briar Lee
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A Visit to Jon’s Pipe Shop in Columbia Missouri
My wife felt better today and wanted to go eat at Columbia and I got another chance to visit Wayne Davis at Jon’s Pipe Shop directly South of the pillars on the Courthouse Square. The place is forever 1975. I selected three 2 pounce cans of Windjammer, Six Pence and Navigator (only $14.75 a... -
$80 Muxaing Wine Red Ukulele
The price on this one broke down to $65 for the pipe, $10 shipping, and $5 Missouri sales tax. This makes my fifth and most expensive order. These pipes are made in collaboration with or contracted by a Spanish trading company in Madrid, Spain and made by a factory in a villiage in China named... -
False Alarm for a Flat Tire
I’m finishing one last probate estate and after a triumphant victory at the courthouse (I do very well when I’m the only lawyer in the case) and it is likely the last time I put on the suit and tie and carry my forty year old Orvis briefcase to be somebody’s chosen champion. Afterwards I got...- Briar Lee
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Ruminations on Food Allergies
My wife is not only much prettier than I am, she genuinely cares a lot more about the precious children of our nation, which she claims are our most important national resource and only hope for the future. I read an article where some girlie type European butter was being recalled for not...- Briar Lee
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- Forum: Food & Drink
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Smoking one Pipe Until it’s Plum Worn out.
In 41 years of law practice I had the privilege to open well over 20,000 new files and not one myself, personally. A receptionist greeted you, offered you good hot coffee or whatever soft drink you wanted, and an astray if you smoked, and the first visit was usually free, never more than $50... -
Where’s Harry D. Holmes When You Need Him?
I’m celebrating 41 years of wearing a suit, tie and hard soled shoes by retiring and wearing old man clothes like pocket T shirts, comfortable shorts, and slip in Sketcher’s every loving day.:) And for the not princely sum of $21.50 delivered I ordered 6 more Hanes pocket Ts in assorted...- Briar Lee
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Record Low Report Being Boozers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The percentage of U.S. adults who say they consume alcohol has fallen to 54%, the lowest by one percentage point in Gallup’s nearly 90-year trend. This coincides with a growing belief among Americans that moderate alcohol consumption is bad for one’s health, now the majority...- Briar Lee
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Ford Announces the Next Model T
Automaker Ford (F) plans an EV announcement Monday, which the company heralds as its "Model T moment," even as the U.S. electric vehicle market wrestles with the new reality under President Donald Trump without federal incentives. Ford stock angled higher Monday. Ford will announce its new EV...- Briar Lee
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