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    Any Pipe-Related OCD Tendency?

    I’m a stem nut also. I can’t stand vulcanite and almost all my 37 pipes have acrylic stems. The absolute best are perspex stems on the old GBDs.
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    How Often Do You Smoke a Pipe?

    He likely needed the whiskey to deal with a class full of eleven year olds.
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    Cringle Flake

    Previous editions were fine. This year’s was just awful and I threw out most of the tin. Mold may have improved it.
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    The Most Disappointing Tobacco

    It’s funny that I just came across your comments. I’m smoking right now Skiff from a tin I bought at the glorious Arlington Pipe and Cigar B+M last August, and it does have some bite. Nothing intolerable, and I do like it, but the bite is still noticeable.
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    You Tube Pipe Channel

    Malcolm Guite is a fascinating man. Ph.D in Medieval literature from Cambridge, born in Africa, and an Anglican Priest. His videos are always informative and amusing. And almost always with his pipe and a dram.
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    This May be Heresy........

    I’m gonna be ultra-heretical and say I don’t like any Peterson pipes.
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    Thinning the Herd, and Increasing it at the Same Time

    65 years is quite impressive, Chief. I’m at 51 years and you make me a relative rookie.
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    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***

    Robert McConnell Red Flake in a Castello Old Antiquari.
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    Walked into my local B&M …

    This post is funny. I went to a B&M in northern Virginia today and found the same thing. I was tempted to buy up the whole lot. A great arbitrage move, but could not do it. I settled for two tins of Dunbar and one Dorcchester.
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    Which Beverage with which Tobacco?

    Seltzer or coffee in the afternoon, tea in the evening during cold months. I love my beer and I love my pipe, just not together.
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    Smoking a Pipe First Thing in the Morning

    I’m retired, but still get up at 5:30 each day but Saturday. I have plenty of time to smoke in the morning, but cannot handle any tobacco before noon. Then I’ll have 3-4 bowls the rest of the day.
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    Carrying Pipes Back In The Day

    I’m old enough to have been working when smoking in the office was commonplace and men wore traditional suit coats or sports jackets to work. I kept my daily pipe in my breast pocket, tobacco pouch in my rear pants pocket, and lighter and tamper in my jacket side pocket. Nothing fancy or...
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    Federal Taxes on Cigars & Pipe Tobacco

    The guy’s an a%#hole. That said, no tax increases will pass the House.
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    How Long Have You Smoked a Pipe?

    It will be 54 years next month. I started on my 18th birthday with a Tom Thumb pipe and a box of Carter Hall I bought at a Sears Roebuck in Chicago when Sears had a tobacco section in their stores.
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    Your Significant Other’s Preferred Blend?

    I am blessed with a wife who, over 41 years, has liked every blend I’ve used. And I’ve tried many over those years, and to this day,a variety of straight Virginia, VaPers, and English/Balkans. The only aromatics I like are Autumn Evening and Jolly Old St. Nicholas.
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    Ser Jacopo Calumet Obsession

    As I just replied above, that Calumet was quite expensive, but bought it with trade value. My only beef is the walls of the chamber are thin; ergo, the outside of the bowl gets quite hot.
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    Ser Jacopo Calumet Obsession

    You got a great deal. I bought a new Calumet from SmokingPipes last year for $425.
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    Can’t Take Them All (Pipes Edition)

    I greatly admire your Christian dedication and sacrifice. My prayers are with you. God bless.
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    4Noggins Orders

    Edit: Comment removed/Al