Dear Gawith & Hoggarth

[jpberg]

I suppose I qualify as a hoarder, at least of GH and SG blends, but I look at the many Mylar bags I have on hand purchased in bulk when GH was in the 40-50 dollar range, compare the prices now, and feel like I have won the lottery.

The distribution in the US of these blends was frankly a crap sickle before Laudisi took over. It was strictly an afterthought for Phillips and King/Kretek. They had dropped so many pioe related products, such as the Comoy Bulks and the Erik Stokebye line, that a reasonable person who knew what the industry situation was and who loved the blends had every reason to fear each shipment would be the last.

Sometimes FOMO is not unreasonable. There really isn't as much incentive for me to add more to my stash since Laudisi is bringing the stuff in by regular 20 ft container loads, but in the past there most certainly was.

But a word of warning. I have no clue as to how long or how severe the current inflation trend will be. But for imported tobacco, a $ increase at the manufacturer level gets marked up by the distributor, then again by the retailer. If you can find old mail order catalogs from o7tfits like Iwan Ries and Smokers Haven from, say, 1970 and 1980, the cost increase is dramatic. Pipe tobacco is a better inflation hedge than gold.

Thanks for getting this back to ground.

 

[anotherbob]

I always can't help but notice how when communists murder millions of people it always seems to be referred to as a "purge", rather than a much more accurate term such as atrocity, genocide, mass murder, holocaust, etc.

Purging makes it sound so much less psychotic and criminal ... makes it sound therapeutic.

It's a purge when you do it to people that are supposedly on your side. The one and only funny thing is that such monstrous behavior lead to one of the main perpetrators dying a long slow horrible death. Because people where so afraid of what he'd do if they told him something was wrong with him. Seems like a small but poetic justice in my opinion.

 

[yohanan]

Smoking 1792 flake in a MM Country Gent, Thanks Gawith and Hoggarth for a very fine tobacco.

 

[rmpeeps]

It's not all that difficult to understand. Just look at all of the liars, grifters, mentally ill sociopaths, crooks, perverts, and other myriad bozos that people have fanatically supported and even died for. What the bozos all have in common is that they told people what they wanted to hear. Not any sort of truth, just what "their" people wanted to hear. A lot of people will only hear what they want to hear.

Huh?