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  1. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    So true, but hopefully I performed adequately despite my quick release! The sad truth is that I spent more time on this crap than on my wife’s gift this year! ;)
  2. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    I was only allowed to participate this year due to a “vouch” so you know I had to be a top lister! :ROFLMAO:puffy
  3. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    The sleigh has departed with my sucker’s recipient’s package.
  4. Mikepiper

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    That’s a good looking crowd (but who photoshopped in the Pinot Gris)?! What are you smoking there?
  5. Mikepiper

    Showoff Your Dunhill Pipes Here!

    Wow. That condition is fantastic! Congrats.
  6. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    I appreciate your point about aging, which I’ll definitely keep in mind. Indeed, I’ll probably pop more of what I already have in the shorter term in light of that comment to see how the years have impacted the range that I have. I’m approaching 10 years on some of it. Again, much appreciated.
  7. Mikepiper

    TAD Acquisitions 2025

    Oooh. Exotique. And some cool Syrian Latakia blends. That’s a nice haul.
  8. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Ha ha! Maybe next year (or maybe this year)! I do love Penzance though. I didn’t start smoking pipes until after eso was long gone, so I look at it like this: I used to pay $25-30 for a quality cigar, and triple that for a Montecristo #2. Even at $100 an ounce, that comes out to ~$10 a bowl...
  9. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    No ticking or leaking! Looks like a direct ship from the merchant so we’ll see if I can hold off opening it at least until Thanksgiving! Photos to follow, obviously.
  10. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    If someone has another sealed 8oz bag for $750, PM me!
  11. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Not opening yet! Need to get closer to Christmas.
  12. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Received package from my SS yesterday.
  13. Mikepiper

    TAD Acquisitions 2025

    I was doing some categorizing last night and surprised myself. I knew I had been buying a lot of tobacco this year following all the recent consolidation and the Sutliff news, but hadn’t paid much attention to the cumulative total. So far it looks like I added ~45 pounds in 2025. That’s what -...
  14. Mikepiper

    Inveterate pipe smoker, new to this peanut gallery…

    Welcome from Miami Florida. I share your firearms interest, mostly English double barreled shotguns - and pipes of course!
  15. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Where are the coffee grounds for that special “earthy” note?
  16. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Ahhh, the mysterious Som Besths! As this is my first year on the forum, I had to go almost 3000 posts from the 2023 thread to figure out what the hell that means. Totally worth it!
  17. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Love VaPers, English, Virginias, and Balkans. Not a huge Burley forward guy (yet, I suppose) and not big on goopy aros. Of course, I love McC and eso blends as much as the next guy, but seriously will be grateful for whatever comes my way, especially if it’s tobacco that my SS particularly...
  18. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    SS as-built and procedures manual 1. Stalk Research target: check. 2. Survey cellar for appropriate options: check (but hmmm 🤔 ) 3. Analyze market cellar supplementation options: check 4. Solid choices? Hope so, and what fun this is!
  19. Mikepiper

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Happy to be part of this this year! I love English, VaPers, and Virginia forward blends. Also love rich dark stone-fruity beauties. Not crazy about heavy aromatics, but will be grateful to experience whatever comes my way!
  20. Mikepiper

    Presentation of a new user

    Welcome from Miami, FL! Just got back from a visit to Rome last month. Wonderful time. Are you new to pipe smoking or just the forum?