Best Blend of 2023: An Elimination Game

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Lifer
Jul 17, 2022
1,131
5,823
Nashville
- 1989
- Ennerdale

Living:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 15
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 8
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 14
Squadron Leader - SG - 6
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 11
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 11
Dockworker - HU - 13
Oriental Silk - C&D - 13
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 14
Ennerdale - GH - 23
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 23
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 19
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 15
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 15
Black - Sillem's - 13
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 7
Skiff Mixture - SG - 15
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 12
Lancer Slices - F&K - 10
Wintertime Flake - SG - 13
Dark Bird's Eye - GH - 19

Deceased
:
Grape - Captain Black
Match 20 - Sutliff
Hogshead - Seattle Pipe Club
Royal - Captain Black
Royal Yacht - Peterson
Exclusive - C&D
Stratfordshire - C&D
Mixture #79 - Sutliff
Aged Burley Flake - Solani
From Beyond - C&D
Pegasus - C&D
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan
Dorchester - Esoterica
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs
Maple Shadows - Sutliff

Nothing quite so newsworthy this time around... Squadron Leader gets knocked down, then he gets up again, seems you're never gonna keep him down. And nobody died today, but the blends at the top are beginning to take quite the haircut - namely, the Luxury Flake. In fact, this particular Stokkebye blend had a showing not unlike that of Donald Trump in Iowa: Plenty of selections were technically on the ballot, but over half the votes landed on a single candidate. If it hopes to survive, it'll need to wall itself off and make Ennerdale pay for it.
You are very good at this.
 
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jbfrady

Part of the Furniture Now
Jul 27, 2023
733
3,171
South Carolina
1989 -2

Living:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 15
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 8
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 10
Squadron Leader - SG - 5
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 11
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 11
Dockworker - HU - 13
Oriental Silk - C&D - 13
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 16
Ennerdale - GH - 23
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 23
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 19
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 15
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 16
Black - Sillem's - 13
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 4
Skiff Mixture - SG - 15
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 12
Lancer Slices - F&K - 8
Wintertime Flake - SG - 13
Dark Bird's Eye - GH - 20

Deceased:

Grape - Captain Black
Match 20 - Sutliff
Hogshead - Seattle Pipe Club
Royal - Captain Black
Royal Yacht - Peterson
Exclusive - C&D
Stratfordshire - C&D
Mixture #79 - Sutliff
Aged Burley Flake - Solani
From Beyond - C&D
Pegasus - C&D
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan
Dorchester - Esoterica
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs
Maple Shadows - Sutliff

You know, there's something about 1989... This blend has simply grown too comfortable in its current position. 1989 is that guest in your home whose company you enjoy... until he takes a positively Jurassic dump that clogs your toilet and yet he won't admit that it was indeed he who did the clogging. In other words, he gotta go...

Also, we've got to talk about all these +2 votes. I've tried sad-facing them in hopes of deterring this blatant game-extending, but certain users have simply become immune to schoolyard shame tactics. I fear that the time has come for retribution, and turning up the heat to a simmering medium-high. I fear it's time to start viciously harassing the voters who insist on healing beloved blends despite the option of pure carnage on the table. Feelings will be hurt, hearts will be broken, and lives will be distraught and laid to waste by what's to come, but it simply must be done.

I apologize in advance for the egregious verbal violence soon to ensue. I wouldn't usually condone such vicious, vile insults to be rendered in a post so pure, but here goes nothing: @Servant King and @Jbrewer2002 and @Ryan and anybody else who dares to +2... these boostey voters are naught but a coterie of cotton-headed ninny mugginses, and anyone who would dare deny this fact is but a dunderheaded clodpole.

That'll leave 'em licking their wounds!
 

Jbrewer2002

Part of the Furniture Now
Apr 17, 2023
675
5,003
Somerset Ohio
1989 -2

Living:
Anomalous - Sutliff - 15
Brown Twist #4 - SG - 8
Luxury Navy Flake - Peter Stokkebye - 10
Squadron Leader - SG - 5
Golden Sliced - Orlik - 11
Red Virginia - Robert McConnell - 11
Dockworker - HU - 13
Oriental Silk - C&D - 13
Rouxgaroux - WCC - 16
Ennerdale - GH - 23
1989 - Erik Stokkebye - 23
Full Virginia Flake - SG - 19
Rich Dark Honeydew - GH - 15
Bob's Chocolate Flake - GH - 16
Black - Sillem's - 13
American Cut Plug - Watch City - 4
Skiff Mixture - SG - 15
Flake - Peterson (Dunhill) - 12
Lancer Slices - F&K - 8
Wintertime Flake - SG - 13
Dark Bird's Eye - GH - 20

Deceased:

Grape - Captain Black
Match 20 - Sutliff
Hogshead - Seattle Pipe Club
Royal - Captain Black
Royal Yacht - Peterson
Exclusive - C&D
Stratfordshire - C&D
Mixture #79 - Sutliff
Aged Burley Flake - Solani
From Beyond - C&D
Pegasus - C&D
Holly's Non Plus Ultra - Dan
Dorchester - Esoterica
No. 69 - Peter Henrichs
Maple Shadows - Sutliff

You know, there's something about 1989... This blend has simply grown too comfortable in its current position. 1989 is that guest in your home whose company you enjoy... until he takes a positively Jurassic dump that clogs your toilet and yet he won't admit that it was indeed he who did the clogging. In other words, he gotta go...

Also, we've got to talk about all these +2 votes. I've tried sad-facing them in hopes of deterring this blatant game-extending, but certain users have simply become immune to schoolyard shame tactics. I fear that the time has come for retribution, and turning up the heat to a simmering medium-high. I fear it's time to start viciously harassing the voters who insist on healing beloved blends despite the option of pure carnage on the table. Feelings will be hurt, hearts will be broken, and lives will be distraught and laid to waste by what's to come, but it simply must be done.

I apologize in advance for the egregious verbal violence soon to ensue. I wouldn't usually condone such vicious, vile insults to be rendered in a post so pure, but here goes nothing: @Servant King and @Jbrewer2002 and @Ryan and anybody else who dares to +2... these boostey voters are naught but a coterie of cotton-headed ninny mugginses, and anyone who would dare deny this fact is but a dunderheaded clodpole.

That'll leave 'em licking their wounds!
Hey I had to get one more in😏 last one I promise. Besides I haven’t done a +2 in days 😂
 

Servant King

Lifer
Nov 27, 2020
4,812
28,031
39
Frazier Park, CA
www.thechembow.com
@Servant King and @Jbrewer2002 and @Ryan and anybody else who dares to +2... these boostey voters are naught but a coterie of cotton-headed ninny mugginses, and anyone who would dare deny this fact is but a dunderheaded clodpole.
Smile when you say that.

I only do that to keep up with all the -2ing that you and your ilk are subjecting my poor VaPer candidate to!

Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake -2
Nevermind.