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  1. ruraldean

    I don't get it

    I started off exclusively with English blends and also initially felt that VA's lacked... something. Now I've reversed completely, and although I'll smoke and enjoy almost anything (except 1792 and Condor) I'm firmly in the VA and VAPer camps. +2 for Orlik's Golden Sliced BTW.
  2. ruraldean

    Tattoos and corporate buttmonkeying

    Speed reading sucks. I read that you were going to send your wife out to her old job, bouncing at a bar. My kind of woman....
  3. ruraldean

    Different Songs - Same Exact Riff

    The Sweet, Blockbuster and David Bowie's Jean Genie. http://youtu.be/yEmGQYCuc6M http://youtu.be/BgrYf7VWASE
  4. ruraldean

    Finally Bought a Cobwarden

    I have one and one only. I bought it several years into pipe smoking as I'd never seen the point and thought they were a bit "Mickey Mouse". Of course, I'd ignored countless threads like this telling me different. After 7 years I'm still occasionally smoking the same cob, and can't for the life...
  5. ruraldean

    What pipe style did you used to hate and now like?

    Blasted pipes and bulldogs. Now I love 'em both.
  6. ruraldean

    Salt & alcohol treatment, really?

    I've used salt and alcohol many times on estates and it works perfectly. I keep a bottle of cheap brandy for the purpose and fall in love with a pipe I've cleaned this way.
  7. ruraldean

    What's a shape you just don't like?

    I can't believe that only one poster identified panel pipes. They are truly the spawn of Satan.
  8. ruraldean

    Addicted...

    I recently gave up roll-ups and started vaping. I also went 3 weeks without a pipe and have cut down to possibly less that a bowl a day. The difference is amazing - I really appreciate a quiet, thoughtful bowl now, where I had been a continuous pipe smoker, existing in a permanent haze of smoke...
  9. ruraldean

    "Inherited" 10 new (to me) pipes this weekend

    I have no living family on my side, but my wife has a small township on hers. Not one of them ever smoked pipes. I am distraught.
  10. ruraldean

    Very strange Kaywoodie on ebay

    Seems pretty definitive lonestar...
  11. ruraldean

    Does ANYBODY actually like Borkum Riff?

    Sadly, I like it too. BR Original that is, not Whiskey. My GP smokes nothing else. Any UK smokers looking to bin it give me a call...
  12. ruraldean

    Smoke Rings, Not to give your Fiance

    I suppose my one piece of advice is that you're wasting your time trying in the breeze. Smoke rings require a very still atmosphere.
  13. ruraldean

    Send some positive vibes towards my mom.

    Prayers already sent Phil.
  14. ruraldean

    The Myth of Brand and Maker in Pipesmoking

    I've long championed the cause of the lowly pipe against their grown-up big brothers in the hand-made, artisan arena. I suspect many of us would like to have been the author of this article. Yet none of us should be surprised - pipes, like trainers and designer ware, have been influenced by the...
  15. ruraldean

    I'm going to make you like hip-hop (well, some of it)

    Try 30 seconds in on the Chap-Hop video above your post!
  16. ruraldean

    Got Loose Stems? Try This.

    In which case I wouldn't try it. 8O
  17. ruraldean

    You're Not Going To Believe this!

    My only concern is that the guy you bought the pipe from might have used it for weed. In which case who carries the can if residue is detected? Like Canada, we don't have this crap over here, although the police will confiscate weed if they find it on you. Probably for a party back at the...
  18. ruraldean

    Got Loose Stems? Try This.

    I do the same thing but just push the tenon down on a hard surface to make it shorter and more squat. Works every time.
  19. ruraldean

    What Are You Smoking?(August 2012)

    Morning chaps (and chapesses). W O Larson Signature in a Lorenzo Calabash. Sweet.
  20. ruraldean

    You must be a pipe smoker

    When you put on 25 lbs, grow a beard, use a fountain pen and start wearing "proper" hats (no caps), then you just HAVE to be a pipe smoker...