A Rumination on the Superiority of Good Briar

[telescopes]

In 1946 a four star Lee was $15 and a five star $25. The customer picked from a variety of standard shapes in small, medium and large sizes, and then only according to briar quality and nothing else, paid $5, $10, $15, or $25. Supposedly there was a $3.50 one star (same as Drinkless) in the 1946 catalogs but none after that.

Too bad for you cause I heard they just tore down Lee’s statue in Richmond.

 

[Briar Lee]

I would like to know more about the the super wicked briar genius at Dr. Grabow.

Other boys were raised to look up in the sky, and see an airplane. My mother used to ask me, how many people have to do their work exactly, for that machine to get up there? Think she’d say, if just one person working someplace made one bad part, for that airplane?

It wasn’t her fault or mine, or anybody’s I suppose. Hillbilly philosophers long ago swindled the Osage Indians out of their best land and prettiest daughters, and they begat and begat until there are still a few that live in this paradise others call the Ozarks.

If you see Dr. Grabow pipes for sale everywhere pipes are sold, the briar wizard is as real as the man Robinson Caruso knew existed when he saw footprints in the sand.

 

[sablebrush52]

the briar wizard is as real as the man Robinson Caruso knew existed when he saw footprints in the sand.

Was Robinson Caruso related to Enrico Caruso?

 

[Briar Lee]

Was Robinson Caruso related to Enrico Caruso?

Half cousin to Captain Ahab on the Peqoud, on his mother’s side by marriage.

Call me Ishmael, but i can type faster than I can spell.
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Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents
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Nobody would remember the Great Caruso if not for Thomas Edison’s talking machine.

There’s not much to do five miles West of Humansville except read books and drift into becoming a philosopher.

If briar wasn’t the best for pipes, then pipes would all be made of something else.

And if the briar wizard at Grabow didn’t know his business well, Grabow wouldn’t be the last big briar customer.

When the briar wizard calls, the briar merchants call him Sir and flatter him, don’t you reckon?

 

[sasquatch]

I feel like H.A.L. in 2001, slowly getting dumber as someone pulls wires out of my brain...

Daisy, Daisy.....

Give me your answer do....

 

[telescopes]

I feel like H.A.L. in 2001, slowly getting dumber as someone pulls wires out of my brain...

Daisy, Daisy.....

Give me your answer do....

Dave....

 

[fireground_piper]

I’m going to go WAY out on a limb here, and suggest Grabow is not the last big briar customer.

Don’t quote me on it.

 

[sablebrush52]

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe

Riiight. Wasn't Daniel Defoe married to Willem Defoe?

 

[sablebrush52]

I wish. Could you imagine a world where politicians defer to the smartest man in the world?

How would they develop the mental capacity recognize it?

 

[Briar Lee]

I’m going to go WAY out on a limb here, and suggest Grabow is not the last big briar customer.

Don’t quote me on it.

The last, single biggest by far.

Covid 19 has actually been good for pipe smoking. You can smoke more when you work at home.

In the fifty years I’ve been aware of the different grades of Dr Grabow pipes they’ve increased almost exactly ten times in price.

The Lark is still the cheapest, the Golden Duke the top of the line.

Every big drug store carries Dr Grabow, and every supermarket sells the Dr Grabow filters.

And a perfect, smooth finish Royalton is still twice the price of a Golden Duke, and worth it. The Grabow briar wizard makes certain a smooth Royalton has deliciously grained perfect briar.

Our fathers and grandfathers were just as discerning and smart as we are about buying a consumer product.

Whether it was $3.98 or $39.98 a Golden Duke had nice briar, and at $7.98 or $79.98 the smooth Royalton had twice as nice briar.

Nobody needs a briar pipe. It’s strictly a first world luxury.

 

[sasquatch]

I’m going to go WAY out on a limb here, and suggest Grabow is not the last big briar customer.

Don’t quote me on it.

This is like that video where Julius Vesz suggests he's the "last pipe builder". Just totally clueless about the whole rest of the industry outside his shop door.

Grabow makes some 250,000 pipes a year, it's quite a bit. Now, we are assured each block is graded, 200 working days a year, and that poor mf has to grade 1250 briar blocks a day. I hope he has a helper. And what do they do with the rejects? Sell them to Savinelli maybe....

 

[jpmcwjr]

How would they develop the mental capacity recognize it?

They wouldn't! And there's no one in the world who is smartest in all the necessary areas. And he'd be too smart to get involved with politics.

 

[warren]

Every big drug store carries Dr Grabow, and every (My italics) supermarket sells the Dr Grabow filters.

Simply an unsupportable statement. I can go into Walgreen's and not see pipe filters. Safeway in my area doesn't either. So, the statement is false.

 

[telescopes]

To quote Jimi, "Excuse me while I kiss the sky!"

What is this thread about?

Lee Pipes with stars are for smart lawyers...

No... they are for pretentious cow chasers who bail hay...

No... Lee worked for Kaywoodie or was that Dr. Grabow... and ...

Simply put the shear volume of pipes made by Grabow proves quality briar existed and....

If you see it you will know it....

and if @cosmicfolklore adds one more bit of information or thought to this threat it is IBIL...

And... violins made today are better than those made 300 years ago.

Something like that.

I hear someone singing, "The Day They Drove Ole Dixie Down..."

Lee, Lee, where did they put your 4 Stars on your statue...

 

[anotherbob]

How would they develop the mental capacity recognize it?

that's why it's a fantasy.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Yes, this thread has lost its thread. Sayonara.