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  1. stearmandriver

    Halloween

    Exactly this. If you want to go back to what Halloween traditionally was, you've got to go back to Samhain and other pagan festivals. Similar to Easter, Christmas etc... The newer cultures all borrow from the older.
  2. stearmandriver

    Favorite Youtube Channel?

    I just read this whole thread and was going to mention Malcolm Guite, and there in the last message someone beat me to it ;). Otherwise a number of my favorites have popped up... Stuff and Things, NW Pipe Smoker, Bremem Pipe Smoker, Goulet pens etc. Ward Caroll is good for naval aviation fans...
  3. stearmandriver

    Suddenly Lost my Taste for Pipe Tobacco

    Some pretty classic late 90s anthems on that album! And I will never forget the art 😂.
  4. stearmandriver

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    ??? Natural selection has created a LOT of really highly poisonous organisms. Obviously if a trait can be developed naturally, it can be developed via intentional manipulation - whether that's hybridization or transgenic processes. One just takes a lot longer... Also remember that the "dead...
  5. stearmandriver

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    Almost nothing you eat has been developed via natural selection. Almost everything you eat has instead been modified by humans over time, via multiple techniques that select for desirable characteristics. (Obviously even natural selection is a form of genetic modification, but the point is...
  6. stearmandriver

    GMO Tobacco/No Nicotine

    I like pipe smoking, but have never cared for feeling the nicotine. I'd be pretty happy with nicotine-free tobacco if it could be used to create my favorite blends (which are all Oriental-heavy Englishes and so pretty low nic to begin with.). As far as the GMO issue, there seems to be a lot of...
  7. stearmandriver

    Oldest Smoked Tobacco...

    25 year old tin of McClelland's Dark Star. I remember it biting the hell out of me when fresh, but after forgetting about it for 15 years, then re-hydrating and jarring it, it STILL is hard to get it to burn, but it's nice and smooth and tastes like toasted marshmallows. I have a couple...
  8. stearmandriver

    I Don't See Three on a Donkey.

    Not even kidding, I kind of like it. I'm not exactly sure what I'd do with it... But I kind of like the transition from raw organic wood, to polished and finished guitar. Maybe a guitar maker would appreciate it more? I'm no kind of craftsman, and barely a guitarist, so maybe I'm just...
  9. stearmandriver

    Suggestions - Honey/Graham Cracker Flavor

    MacBaren Scottish Mixture has a lot of this too.
  10. stearmandriver

    Are We Too Casual?

    I'm mostly a lurker on pipe forums, but I've been doing that for a while and I've noticed that this is a thread that crops up with some regularity. It could be summarized as "the rest of the world doesn't care what I think of it and this is wrong." Conversely, another thread that tends to...
  11. stearmandriver

    Praise to Peretti

    Definitely not that I can taste. Cuban is not what I'd call an aromatic... Tastes like a good cigar with Latakia!
  12. stearmandriver

    Praise to Peretti

    I took this as conjecture of a light mint casing (not really a topping.) on many of their blends. I will say that since I've read that on TR, I've sometimes thought I could notice that I was left with a bit of a clean, fresh mouthfeel (well, cleaner than usual after smoking a Latakia blend for...
  13. stearmandriver

    Praise to Peretti

    Royal, Tashkent, and Oriental 40 are fantastic. Cambridge Flake is my favorite tobacco of all time. I'm in my late 40s and I've got enough Cambridge Flake cellared already to guarantee I'll have some to smoke in retirement, even if it goes away tomorrow (granted I'm just a few bowls a week...
  14. stearmandriver

    California's First Tropical Storms in 84 Years

    This isn't exactly true (actually, it's false.). The shift to using the "climate change" wording happened not because warming was slower than forecast (it's actually remained well within the IPCC's "most likely" forecast). It's because "climate change" is actually a more accurate term for what...
  15. stearmandriver

    Nothing Could Convince Me to go Ballooning, But I do Like to See Them.

    Back when I was in the experience building phase of my career, I flew a jump plane for a skydiving operation. One of the jumpers had a small hot air balloon, and I can remember how obsessed all of them got about jumping from the balloon. Seemed to last most of the summer. They all agreed that...
  16. stearmandriver

    California's First Tropical Storms in 84 Years

    Doesn't this question answer itself? One is rare and the other isn't, right? So... Which one is newsworthy? 😁
  17. stearmandriver

    Greetings from the PNW

    If you happen to be near Western Puget Sound, check out the Cargo Hold the next time you're near Poulsbo. Not the largest brick and mortar I've seen, but one of the better ones in terms of focus on pipes vs cigars, selection, and knowledgeable owner. Good stuff. 👍
  18. stearmandriver

    Not smoking pipe for 10 plus days

    Don't the large majority of people not-smoke their pipes for, like, their entire lives? Some of them seem to make it pretty far along. I'm guessing you'll be fine. 😉
  19. stearmandriver

    Local B&Ms

    Cargo Hold in Poulsbo, WA is my local shop and pretty darn good, run by a very knowledgeable guy. I'm in Boston semi-regularly for work and Peretti's is fantastic.
  20. stearmandriver

    Cartels Are Apologizing!!!

    Well, here's the thing: when something is true, there is evidence for it. Evidence that, in context, holds up to scrutiny and logical analysis. Every time, without exception. How many investigations have there been - chaired by folks with political interests on both sides of the aisle - into...
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