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    The Hoarders Stole All My Escubo!

    After working all day clearing clogged sewer pumps, I came home expecting to get me some of that almost free Escubo from For Knockers. Sold Out! Dang hoarders didn't left even one tin for me.
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    Peanut Butter...Skippy or Jif

    I'm a Jif guy, but taste testers at Cook's Illustrated liked Skippy best. What's your favorite? Skippy Peanut Butter In a contest that hinged on texture, tasters thought this "smooth, "creamy" sample was "swell" and gave it top honors, both plain and baked into cookies. Its rave reviews even...
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    Milkshake...Chocolate, Vanilla, or strawberry?

    Even though Vanilla is the finest of the flavors, make mine Chocolate.
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    When Smoking Your Pipe Is The ONLY Thing You Do

    I just realized, after reading another thread, that I have never smoked a pipe just for the sake of smoking a pipe. Au contraire mon ami, I am always doing "something else" simultaneously! Me, I read forums, Kindle books, watch TV (very rarely), and sometimes work with a hobby; but never, oh...
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    First Harvest of Energy-Rich Tobacco to Make Sustainable Aviation Biofuel

    MARBLE HALL, South Africa, Dec. 9, 2014 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] and South African Airways (SAA) announced today that South African farmers will soon harvest their first crop of energy-rich tobacco plants, an important step towards using the plants to make sustainable aviation biofuel. Boeing and SAA...
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    You Know, It's Kinda Like...

    I mixed a "little" Lane 1-Q in with Cornell & Diehl Bayou Morning. You know, it's kinda like... Sucking on a Ludens Wild Cherry cough drop while sipping white wine.
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    SmokingPipes House Brand

    Now that SmokingPipes.com owns Cornell & Diehl, who besides me would like to see SmokingPipes offer house brands like Pipes & Cigars does with Hearth & Home?
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    How Do I Tame Latakia?

    I have many "English" blends in my cellar from when I was on my Latakia kick. Now I find I want to tone down the heavy Latakia prominent flavor. I searched the forums, but mostly what I found was people adding Carter Hall to everything, I don't want Burley solutions, Burley and I don't get along...
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    Walker Briar Works Done With Estates

    From today's email: We continue to change and evolve as the pipe smoking society does. Lots of folks are still smoking pipes (Missouri Meerschaum ships 3,500 Corn Cob pipes per day!). Lots of folks have stopped smoking anything, or cut down, and have turned to "Vaping" (E-pipes and...
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    Warning To All Pipe Smokers

    I use a BIC brand lighter. No place on that lighter does it mention that the really bright part of the lighter is very hot.
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    Are Savinelli Tobacco Pipes Collectable

    There are serious collectors that only collect tobacco pipes made by Dunhill, Charatan, GBD, Peterson, as well as vintage Dr Grabow's for that matter, and to only name a few of a very long list for illustrative purposes only; but the question is: are there serious collectors that only collect...
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    4noggins Alamosa Virginia Perique

    I have been taking the comment from Brian Levine (on the radio show rant time) and smoking a blend that I do not immediately like, and trying it for an ounce or so. The pipe tobacco blend is "Alamosa" by 4noggins, a broken flake of Virginia and Perique. This blend is really starting to become a...
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    MacBaren Tins On Sale at CupOJoes

    Cup O Joes dot com has all their MacBaren tins on sale 10% off. I'm talking MacBaren Burley London Blend, MacBaren Dark Twist, all the Cubes, and nobody doesn't like MacBaren Honey & Chocolate! Use the coupon code happymac at checkout.
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    D&R Ramback Versus Ramback Gold

    Can anyone enlighten me on the difference between Daughters and Ryan Ramback and Ramback Gold. Ramback is listed on the tin as "Superior quality 100% Turkish tobaccos". Ramback Gold is listed on the tin as "A superior blend of the finest quality flue-cured and turkish tobaccos" Thank you all...
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    Ageing In Tin Versus In Mason Jar

    Is there a known difference between aging Virginia Flake in the unopened sealed tin versus a correctly sealed Mason/Ball jar?
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    Cigarette Tobacco Smoking Pipe ?!

    Cigarette Tobacco Smoking Pipe ?! Amazon lists this item as: FS-5515 Classical Wooden Cigarette Tobacco Smoking Pipe. Listed on Amazon for $8.99. http://www.amazon.com/Generic-FS-5515-Classical-Cigarette-Tobacco/dp/B00CO1NICU/ref=pd_sim_sbs_hg_2 Is this a new classification for pipes? I was...
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    Italian Pipe Tobacco Blends?

    English pipe tobacco blends abound. There are many choices for American codger blends. There are Scottish blends and Danish blends. The Italians make thousands of wonderful pipes...where are the Italian pipe tobacco blends?
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    Pouch or Jar for Storage

    After taking advantage of the fantastic buy 3 get 3 free deal on Captain Black Dark tobacco from Pipes and Cigars dot com, my question is: Should I leave the tobacco in the original factory pouches, or decant all 18 pouches, all 27 ounces of it, into Mason jars for storage? I think the pouches...
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    Matching Pipe Shape to Personality

    I was told that a pipe is an extension of your personality. A pipe in your mouth tells the world who you are. How does one go about matching a pipe shape to their personality?
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    Hypothetical Theoretical Question

    In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson asks Reverend Lovejoy: "Could GOD microwave a burrito so hot that even HE could not eat it?" Continuing with that thought: Is it possible to smoke a pipe so hot that you are actually smoking the brier and not the tobacco?