Not of German ancestry? I can't make out the emoij, so don't know if you're light hearted or no.
Famous Historical Pipe Smokers
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Of Dutch descent, but an Afrikaaner. Cape Dutch. Hence 'Meneer'.
Considering he was Dutch, and Transvaal Boers spoke Afrikaans, that probably explains the references to “meneer” vs “herr”.
Yes of course, lighthearted, always! Meneer is the Afrikaans equivalent of Herr and Mister. Sorry jpmcwjr, I wasn’t being serious.
There’s an episode about this very thing. On the get piped podcast. I just listened to it while at work catching up on the older episodes. Worth a try if you like that sort of thing
Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt) 1887-1969: born in Peckham, south London, of Anglo-Indian descent, emigrated to Canada in 1909 and bummed around doing odd jobs until he discovered a talent for acting - first on the stage, when in 1911 he adopted the stage name Boris Karloff, and later in cinema, where his best-known role is as the monster in the film 'Frankenstein' (1931), by which time he had already acted in no fewer than 81 other films. Thereafter, horror became his principal genre. He returned to England in 1959 and continued his career in cinema until just a few months before his death. Here, he appears to be smoking a Lovat. He had a pet pig called Violet and a tortoise called Lighting Bill, but I haven't been able to find out what tobaccos he smoked.
Reverend W. Awdry (author of The Railway Series aka Thomas the Tank Engine) seen here smoking what appears to be a falcon.
US General George Patton . He was controversial , probably under utilized , but the Germans were terrified of him .
Yes, indeed. And I also think not a few who served with him where also terrified of old 'Blood And Guts'. One of the real, original tank generals. He was to the US Army what Heinz Guderian was to the Wehrmacht. And isn't that a Lovat he's smoking?
Royal Air Force Chief Air Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder KCB, Deputy Supreme Commander at Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force under General Eisenhower. In this and other photos he can be seen smoking a Liverpool briar. Apparently he liked to smoke a Dunhill (can we see the white spot?) with Lambert & Butler's Rhodian Curly Cut.
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Barry Fitzgerald one of the finest character actors ever! And, yes he smoked a pipe in his private life. But, Flynn wasn't an historical personage, simply a movie role.
No offense Warren, but I have been watching The Quiet Man which came out in 1952 when I was 10 years old. In my mind and world it is historical (as some might consider me) and so to me Michaleen Oge Flynn, not Barry Fitzgerald does qualify as a historical figure.
And here is the great Karl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), who rescued Psychology from the reductionist dogmata of that sex-obsessed, disturbed old perv, Sigmund Freud. Freud, by the way, also smoked a pipe but preferred cigars, and whenever photographed, he is often shown with a cigar in hand, but never a pipe. That tells you something else about Freud and his many problems.
It seems Jung's favourite pipe tobacco was Grainger, though especially during the years of the two world wars he had enormous difficulties with getting enough supply (I know, he should have cellared). When he c ouldn't get Grainger, Jung mixed his tobacco blending English, Dutch and Swiss brands.He had a large collection of water-cooled Kobler pipes, which I'd never heard of before, but apparently they resemble Falcons. And his tobacco tin was called Habakkuk; he liked giving names to inanimate objects. I bet he gave a name to every one of his pipes, too.
It seems Jung's favourite pipe tobacco was Grainger, though especially during the years of the two world wars he had enormous difficulties with getting enough supply (I know, he should have cellared). When he c ouldn't get Grainger, Jung mixed his tobacco blending English, Dutch and Swiss brands.He had a large collection of water-cooled Kobler pipes, which I'd never heard of before, but apparently they resemble Falcons. And his tobacco tin was called Habakkuk; he liked giving names to inanimate objects. I bet he gave a name to every one of his pipes, too.
Though I don't have documentation , this photo allegedly shows @JimInks enjoying a smoke after a delicious PBJ & a slice of his Mom's apple pie:
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Hey , he's pretty famous !!!
:Hey , he's pretty famous !!!
Only one cat - but he was just starting out then
Yup, starting small at a young age.
@dd57chevy mentioned PB&J sandwich - you can tell by the expression on young Jimmy's face, he knew way back when that Peanut butter would work in a tobacco blend. It was just a matter of time..
@dd57chevy mentioned PB&J sandwich - you can tell by the expression on young Jimmy's face, he knew way back when that Peanut butter would work in a tobacco blend. It was just a matter of time..
His love of Granger and great efforts in getting it always fascinated me because in America it's a quintessential codger blend. I didn't know when he couldn't get it he'd just mix up whatever he could find, not surprising he'd have a substitute (like how Faulkner smoked PA when he couldn't get Dunhill) but mixing several is rather unusual. Freud also occasionally smoked pipes, at least in his younger years, there's a few pictures of him with one