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Green Bay Pipe Club March Meeting
Consider yourself invited to the first (monthly?) meeting of a new Green Bay pipe club: Date: Saturday, March 23, 2024 Time: 6:00 PM Place: Prohibition Spirits and Cigar Lounge, 159 N. Broadway St., Green Bay, WI Since we will be using their lounge, please plan to patronize them in some way...- SBC
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Green Bay, Wisconsin, Meetup?
@Home Brewing Piper is in Green Bay and @mikefu is in Appleton -- that area is in striking distance for @alan73 in Stevens Point, @Singularis in Wausau, and myself in Niagara. Is there anybody else whom I'm missing? Let me know if there's any interest in a meetup there. Scott- SBC
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Which Tobacco Leaves Your Favorite Mustache Note?
I can't be certain what others mean by "mustache note" (nor whether it really depends upon a mustache), but what I mean is that, for an hour or more after smoking, I can exhale from my mouth up through my mustache (by protruding my lower lip until it meets the bottom of my mustache, forcing the...- SBC
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SPC Price Points
To regurgitate the well known, in many sectors some producers position themselves at higher price points in order to market to those who find a certain satisfaction in acquiring the higher ticket version of a thing (whether or not the objective value of the thing is proportionally greater, or...- SBC
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Do You have Similar Pipe Aesthetics?
Title edited for caps and reformulated. Original: What forum member's taste in pipe aesthetics do you share? Do you ever scroll through WAYS and think, "Dang, so-and-so consistently has pipes that I might buy if I could. He has the same taste in pipe aesthetics that I do"? Two for me are...- SBC
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School Me on the Science of Lingering Aftertaste
What makes the taste of tobacco stick in the palate so much more persistently than anything else sticks? I can eat any food in the evening, brush my teeth, and wake up in the morning with no aftertaste of that food. But if I smoke in the evening and brush my teeth, I wake up tasting tobacco...- SBC
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What I Like Upon my Return to Latakia.
A couple of years ago I began to experience that much-discussed phenomenon by which long-time latakia smokers suddently grow a distaste for the stuff. As is the case for many, I began to enjoy Virginias at that time. Happily, a couple of months ago I realized that my taste for latakia had...- SBC
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Ennerdale Ready Rubbed
I just saw that GHC released a ready rubbed version of Ennerdale. It occurs to me that this might be a response to recent complaints about lower saucing. If they top a ready rubbed version, presumably the sauce would find more purchase -- more surface area to cover. Right? I bought a pound...- SBC
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Family/Friends/Public's Favorite Room Notes
@bullet08, in another thread, advised us to smoke those tobaccos which tempt the ladies to sit on our laps. When this happens to me (which is becoming so frequent as to be obnoxious), I must drive them away I'm afraid, being a married and chaste man. Still, Bullet's words got me wondering which...- SBC
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Formula for Number of Pipes Needed.
@greysmoke's interesting thread on "hitting bottom" got me thinking about how you'd determine the number of pipes you "need." I guess the formula would be something like: (number of genres you want to dedicate pipes to) x ([maximum number of bowls you might ever smoke in a day] x 2) = maximum...- SBC
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Two Questions About the Manufacturing of Meer-Lined Briars.
Unlike some guys, I don't think that meer-lined briars are a gimmick. I have two (a GBD and a Chacom) and think that their advantages are real. But there are two questions about their manufacturing which I've never found answers to: 1. What resin or adhesive is used in making pressed/composite... -
"Bruyere Garantie" not necessarily of Saint-Claude origin?
I was under the impression, for awhile, that "Bruyere Garantie" meant that a pipe was of Saint-Claude origin, but not otherwise stamped for one of two possible reasons: (a) It was a seconds OR, (b) It was meant to be stamped by a shop as a house pipe However, I've since come across a few...- SBC
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Cancer Shrinking
Did you ever use "Can you spot the difference?" pictures with your kids? Well, here's one for you: I still have months of chemo remaining, but it's pretty great not having tumors surrounding my heart anymore (!). Thank you all for your prayers!- SBC
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How often does P&C's bulk C&D sale roll around?
I see that P&C is currently running a sale on bulk C&D. In trying to decide how to budget, it would be helpful to know when I might expect this again. Is this an annual thing? Should I expect the same prices next time? If not, I may move money now that I otherwise wouldn't. Thanks in...- SBC
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Adjective Order in Pipe Descriptions
Most native English speakers know subconsciously (and few native English speakers know consciously) that adjectives are ordered as follows: (1) Opinion (2) Size (3/4) Age or Shape (these are interchangeable, on a case by case basis) (5) Color (6) Origin (7) Material (8) Purpose This isn't...- SBC
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Discharged from the NICU!
Many of you have been praying for, and checking in on, our son Christian, who's been in a NICU a couple hours away from home for the last month, since he was delivered by emergency C-section at 32 weeks. I'm grateful and thrilled to report that he was just discharged, and that we're all finally...- SBC
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Give me your opinion on these flaws (see pics)
I'm interested in this pipe on feebay, but before bidding, I'm trying to decide whether to worry about a couple flaws in the shank. Here are a couple different perspectives on the first flaw: I'm trying to figure out what I'm looking at here. Why is it so dark? Was this a crack which has...- SBC
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Who makes P&C's inexpensive "Viking" brand?
My kids gave me one a couple years ago, so I love it for that. It seems comparable to other factory pipes in the $60-70 range. Nothing wrong with it. I don't see it sold by anybody but P&C. Is it a seconds line from a more well known maker, which P&C gets branded this way for them? Just... -
Pipes I'm married to (and pipes I'm not)
Some of my pipes have stories as to how they "came to me." These are the ones that I feel most attached to. If a pipe doesn't have a story, it may well wind up gifted or sold away, eventually. Maybe it'll gain a story attached to somebody else. Most of the pipes which I myself feel married...- SBC
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Astounding Generosity
I recently posted my interest in trading for either FMOTT (an old love) or McC 40th Ann (which I regretted not trying, being a red VA fan). @timt reached out to refuse the trade and simply send me, not one, but both (!) of these (plus a tin of GHC Rum Flake, plus a tin of Dunhill Dark Flake)...- SBC
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