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How Long Have You Smoked a Pipe?
I started my pipe journey in 2008, so about 16 years now. I just started smoking cigars about a year ago and it feels like I’ve been smoking them all my life.- samanden
- Post #100
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What Is Your Favorite "Manly" Poem?
Indeed! The lines, “What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?” gets me every time. Whenever I read them I think, “I need to call my dad an apologize for when I was sometimes being such a little sh!+ growing up.” And then I hug my own kids.- samanden
- Post #314
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Is Your Favorite "Manly" Poem?
Those Winter Sundays BY ROBERT HAYDEN Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When...- samanden
- Post #310
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Is Your Favorite "Manly" Poem?
Indeed! When I saw this post, I knew I wanted to add this poem to the thread. Knight was part of an era of Black poetry in the 1960s that was very controversial for its militant, radical racial politics. This period in Black writing was also very problematic for its degradation of women. But...- samanden
- Post #302
- Forum: General Discussion
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What Is Your Favorite "Manly" Poem?
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane BY ETHERIDGE KNIGHT Hard Rock / was / “known not to take no shit From nobody,” and he had the scars to prove it: Split purple lips, lumbed ears, welts above His yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut Across his temple and...- samanden
- Post #300
- Forum: General Discussion
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Tongue and Tasting
Yes, and this can be done without inhaling the smoke. Pull the smoke into your mouth (imagine drawing hot tea into your mouth using a straw), and force the smoke out through your nose.- samanden
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Loose Stem
I can vouch for the beeswax suggestion. This is my go to method for loose stems. I will heat up the wax before rubbing it on the tenon. Works every time.- samanden
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Best Books on Tobacciana History?
bell hooks’ essay “Drive Through Tobacco” from her essay collection Belonging: A Culture of Place- samanden
- Post #20
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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Morgan Pipes
I have one of the Morgan pipe cigars. It’s been a fixture in my rotation for years and a fantastic beach pipe, too! -
Are International Pipe Purchases are Getting More Risky?
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Are International Pipe Purchases are Getting More Risky?
The same thing is happening to me as we speak. I ordered an “expensive to me” pipe from a highly regarded Italian pipe shop (probably the same as OP). My item was denied clearance by US customs because I “might use the pipe to smoke illegal drugs.” Spent the better part of the week tracking down... -
Show Your Tobacco Stash
Here’s a look at my top drawer:- samanden
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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How Long Have You Been Smoking A Pipe ?
13 years ??- samanden
- Post #33
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Al Pascia
Like I said, I’ve shopped with Al Pascia for years and this is the first incident. My guess is that it’s rare for their products to get caught up in customs. Plus, their prices are so low (particularly on Dunhills) that even a $30 bill for customs processing is still worth the trouble.- samanden
- Post #41
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Al Pascia
I should add that Al Pascia has stellar customer service and excellent prices. I’ve purchased a half dozen pipes from them and will continue to give them my business.- samanden
- Post #35
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Al Pascia
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. It all began when I returned an unused pipe to Al Pascia. (The initial pipe arrived to menin less than three days.) It took nearly three weeks to return; it was held up in Italian customs. Anyway, I finally exchanged the pipe, but then my new pipe got caught up in...- samanden
- Post #34
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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What was your worst tasting tobacco?
McConnell’s Glen Piper. No matter what pipe I used, no matter how dry it was, or how long I let it age, it was just bad, bad, bad. Yuck! Just my opinion; I'm sure there’s someone out there with a much better experience.- samanden
- Post #132
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Anybody Tried the Savinelli Flavored Pipes?
The second pipe I ever owned was a Savinelli chocolate infused pipe. Like an earlier post says, it’s more aromatic than flavorful. In fact, I bought it as a dedicated aromatic tobacco pipe. Still use it, still smokes good. It’s a novelty pipe; some will like it, some won’t.