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Grangerous

Lifer
Dec 8, 2020
3,517
14,608
East Coast USA
PAGE ONE RESULTS - Lots of Interesting Go To Blends!

CondorLover1 - Chews an unlit Pipe and travels.

Casual - Smokes MacBaren Scottish Mixture 70 percent of the time.

Gamzultovah - Hal o the Wynd & please, Stay off his Lawn!

Timt - Cowboy Killers & Camels and any Pipe Baccy will do! Loves em all.

Normadorb - LLRR or Sav 140th

Pipesrock - PS LBS or Arango Balkan Supreme! Nice choices!

Anotherbob - Self Admitted Gemini

Edger - Cosmic, a Twisted Navy Man or of late, C&D Derringer has him stoked.

TroutTimes - Says, Pembroke with no hesitation.

Kanuklehead - Squadron Leader, Windsail or Ryback to satisfy Diva Nicotina

Seanv- says it’s Three Friars for me! Thank the folks at C&D!

Edger - Seconds the Three Friars. I’m gonna have to try that one! Edger is all over the map. Gemini much?

ConforLover1 - Honorary Gemini, now cites Brown Twist, Black Twist XX and “what a shock” Condor Plug!
 

Lawyer66

Can't Leave
Nov 21, 2020
319
641
Grand Cayman
This morning I prepared a bowl with 50/50 Carter Hall and Chatham and figured, why not? Maybe they’ll compliment one another.

I purchased a 16 ounce dark roast, found a pleasant spot to tune into AM radio and lit up. The next thing I know, I’m using a pipe tool to dump and I’m on the road again.

From a cabinet in my garage I selected a near empty can, gave a little shake to be sure I had enough for a bowl and drove back to the waterfront where I mindlessly loaded from the can while listening to talk radio.

About mid bowl, when I tapped out the ashes to refresh the flavor, the closing click of my zippo snapped me out of my pipe dream.

Had I actually driven home to change tobaccos?

Advanced Codger Syndrome has been gradually coming over me. I enjoy the relaxation that comes from my pipe but I only “crave” one tobacco.

You may presently be ACS-negative and TAD-positive but everyone has a blend that clicks.

So if you’ve read this far, kindly answer the following question:

When you can’t decide what to smoke, there’s a blend that you’ll always reach for. What is it?

Tell us.

I can confirm my TAD & PAD are both progressing. Though my choice of Sutliff Creme Brulee as a go-to has done much to ease my TAD. A couple pounds of tobacco on the way would say otherwise. As for my PAD, the prognosis isn't good. I find myself browsing pipes at all hours of the night and can confirm that justification for purchase of various brands and shapes have taken hold in my mental framework. As I pull away, thinking "I've got three pipes on the way", relapse is triggered by the ever-calling SP pipe updates, and ultimately Boswell's on a Monday night. Luckily, I can re-frame my thoughts by referencing the finite institution of personal wealth (bank account), though any change of financial circumstances does much to reverse progress. As for ACS, symptoms are still too vague for an accurate diagnosis.
 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,211
60,638
If I'm not a codger now, I'll never be, but I still bounce around between single-leaf burley or burley dominant or inclusive blends, and milder more refined, sometimes aromatic blends. Last night I did straight black Cavendish. But at the moment, I usually know just what I want, and anything else won't do. So codger me.
 

peregrinus

Lifer
Aug 4, 2019
1,205
3,794
Pacific Northwest
Primarily a Virginia and Vaper smoker so I put away a substantial (for me) amount of SG FVF and SG SJF a number of years ago.
These are what I reach for when I am in a hurry or undecided, which lately is 50% of the time. Some people seem to struggle with these particular flakes but my briars seem to understand them and I can enjoy these without much thought or preparation.
 

Grangerous

Lifer
Dec 8, 2020
3,517
14,608
East Coast USA
SECOND ROUND RESULTS ARE IN...

FuMike - Says the malty, chocolatey, nutty winner is Match Edgeworth! Man, you made that sound good, uhm? Taste any blueberries like that Granger Guy? I foresee a run on Edgeworth Match. It’ll be sold out shortly.

Username - Old Joe Krantz he cries! Heady stuff, that! But OJK must wait until the last tin of CrinkleFlake 2020 goes tits up.

Lawyer66 - is sitting in two pounds of Creme Brûlée. Only sailors and guys named Lawrence smoke Creme Brûlée. Let me see your war face! You’re not scaring me. Work on it!

Mr Mike - Selected the entire Virginia/Perique spectrum. Soldier on, Mike!

VirginiaLover - Can’t decide what to smoke, so he’s taking his pipes and going home.

MSO489 - wants to be a Card Carryin-Codger so badly he can “taste” it. But therein lay the problem, you’ve got far too much “good taste in tobacco” for a ticket to codger-land, MOS.

Markthelad - sips Amphora with his morning coffee. In the evenings he gets onto his Warhorse RR and dabbles in Sixpence.

Perigrinis - thinks his briars “understand” him. He reaches for SG FVF and SG SJF 50% of the time. Which leaves me SMH ?‍♂️ because the other 50% could be be Creme Brûlée for all we know. See Lawyer66

Lochinvar - seconds “staying off of the lawn.” They don’t hide crazy at his house, they put crazy on the porch with a cooler full of beer! Beware!

KEEP EM COMING, BOYS. I’LL BE READING REVIEWS THRU 2021.
 

evo03

Starting to Get Obsessed
Nov 20, 2013
181
1,509
Lately it's been Northwoods but over the last few years it's been mostly Escudo, if I didn't want to think about it.
 
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