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  1. 12pups

    Tobacco raises testosterone levels

    Anyone ever read up on this? I would have guessed it to be exactly opposite. Surprised. Link: Original here
  2. 12pups

    Anxious

    Earliest my test results will be back in is tomorrow (Friday). Get to find out if I have throat cancer or not. My family MD said he's betting it's not, as there is no pain or unexplained weight loss. Still. It's on my mind. Here's to a negative test. (But then... what the hell is it? Makes me...
  3. 12pups

    Help Me Design a Labrador Retriever

    Bulldogs, fine. I have a couple. But really, wouldn't a Labrador be cool? Help me design a Labrador pipe. I have a block of briar. I'll work with general descriptions, no problem. Be nice if we could form some consensus about things like what would a Labrador pipe's - stem style be? - shank...
  4. 12pups

    Nothing Gets Past Ms Nosey Nose

    Feeling: Amused (as always, smiling as us little bewildereds as the planet goes round and round, nothing new under the sun). I think about this story from time to time. Happened earlier this year. Finally decided to jot it down. -- “Joe? Were you just now smoking in the bathroom?” Flabbergasted...
  5. 12pups

    Health Risk Mitigation / Lifestyle Choices

    Sitting here outside my motel, smile with a pipe sticking out of it, contemplating the passionate lecture I received on the health risks of smoking delivered to me by a female night shift clerk at a convenience store in downtown Baltimore. Feeling ... amused.
  6. 12pups

    This Is the Life!

    So cold up here in Minnesota right now, but not me, sitting next to this bonfire. Either I or the pipe of Orlik Golden Sliced will burn up soon. And it's all good. Old Juniper on in the pit. Might be a mistake: have to keep brushing glowing embers off my laptop. Two big steaks on the grill... I...
  7. 12pups

    Truly Breathtaking

    The other day I wrote about how beautiful it was around my Minnesota home. But today... truly breath taking. Sustained winds of 30+ mph (30 knots the airport says). Frequently gusting past 60. Came home to find my tent gazebo is ruined, blown down and crumpled against the neighbors fence. Ah...
  8. 12pups

    Unknown Danger of e-Cigarettes

    Just back from a checkup with my family doctor (all good news, healthy as can be). But once again, the pre-visit checklist I went through with the nurse prior to the doc's arrival seemed to really fixate on e-cigarettes: - Do you smoke e-cigarettes? (No.) - Have you ever smoked e-cigarettes...
  9. 12pups

    Fall in Minnesota

    Without a doubt autumn is my favorite time of year. So much so that I hope when my time comes, it's in the fall. My instructions to my family is, no flowers; bury me in autumn leaves. So much more appropriate on so many levels. The only close contender is winter. A Minnesota blizzard that stops...
  10. 12pups

    12Pups 1000th Post Ramble

    Once in a great while I have to explain the difference between my job, "Writer," and "Author." I'm both, but what I excel at, my claim to "fame," so to speak, is writer. Often the credit for what I do goes to someone else. I "ghost-write" for them. Then I laugh and tell them the old joke that...
  11. 12pups

    Pairing War Horse by Standard Tobacco Co.

    Those of you who have a sample left, try your War Horse ready rubbed with a strong coffee, tell me if your experience matches mine. I've got this new fascination with "palate" going on ever since the new winery underneath my office opened this summer. I never considered "balancing the palate" as...
  12. 12pups

    Perfect End of a Work Day

    Is there any more perfect way to end a day than this? I was used as a model in an international brochure. I sent pictures to my wife, whom I know will send it to her friends, bragging. I put in a good, long day of billable hours, bringing beau coup bucks to the company. They will be happy. I'm...
  13. 12pups

    Matching a Wine to Tobacco

    Okay, so I'm new to wines. Never wanted to know too much about them, as it would become an expensive hobby. But... then... I found out what complementing the palate experience was about. I like Folger's Black Silk coffee with my Prince Albert, for instance. Something "whole" happens in my...
  14. 12pups

    Pipes and haiku

    Haiku is poetry that puts you in a very "still" state... or put another way, you have to have a kind of quietness of soul to appreciate haiku. Smoking a pipe, the same. Pert young woman passing, Puff, watch lazily. Haiku moment.
  15. 12pups

    Cobbit Shire? Cobbit Elf?

    And I was the guy who wouldn't be caught saying the word "cute" (always sounds like a lech, or I've just heard too many old lechers using it salaciously): But this... this is redemptive usage. Cute is all over this, sans-letch: Meerschaum Cobbits
  16. 12pups

    Your Tattoo Stories?

    I mentioned the following tattoos in another thread. But then I thought, kind of an interesting thread idea, isn’t it? What’s the story behind your most significant tattoos? My dad quick work with the Railroad when he was 19 to serve in the Navy. He didn't have to, since he couldn't be drafted...
  17. 12pups

    Other End of Memories: On Piping's Effect on Grandchildren

    Making supper alongside me last night my wife confided quietly to me, smiling, that the evening before, while walking our granddaughter (6 yo) alongside the house from the car to the back patio, our granddaughter had slowed her pace, walked on tiptoe, nose up, inhaling long and deep. "What are...
  18. 12pups

    Full Bowl Length Post: Back in the USA... Recharging with Orlik Golden Sliced

    Actually more in my shipment than Orlik Golden Sliced, but it was the buttery calm of Orlik that I clawed through the box for and once in my hand practically gnawed it open. Mmmm… Couldn’t get pipe tobacco in Mexico. Herb, sure. Women, if I wanted. Even was offered a boy, just name the age I...
  19. 12pups

    Don’t Knock Out Loose Bowls above a Mink Hole

    This sunny and bright, yet cold breezy day needed a lunchtime larking. We’d had a week of drizzle and gloom. But at my truck I realized I’d left my favorite pipes at home. No problem—wherever I have spent any time at all, there’s a pipe of some kind, and rummaging through a box I found a no-name...
  20. 12pups

    Moisture Parfait: Dried Out Tobacco Trick?

    A bag of bulk shred (and I think cut will make a difference, hold onto that thought) got "lost" down between my trucks slit seat for a long while. Just discovered it a couple days ago. Dang it. Was not sealed. Dried out. Can't think how long it had been there. Maybe not even half an ounce, but...
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