Greetings from Hercules (the city)
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Welcome from Pennsylvania and New York.
Sorry to hear about your tins getting dumped, but, it brought you here—that could be a good thing or bad thing, depending on how the PAD and TAD enabling takes hold.
Sorry to hear about your tins getting dumped, but, it brought you here—that could be a good thing or bad thing, depending on how the PAD and TAD enabling takes hold.
Welcome aboard from Michigan! While we all aspire to smoke like you illustrated, I can assure you, many of us do not. Many times, I'm a relight machine! 
Welcome from the Central Coast of California!
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Love the humor in your o.p.! You'll fit right in here, asmany, some. a few well, just me perhaps -of us are slobs pretending to have it all together when it comes to pipes and tobacco.
!Love the humor in your o.p.! You'll fit right in here, as
Ah, Hercules is up north of Berkeley and Oakland, about 24K people. I'm always curious about geography, at least as far as my tattered Rand McNally can advise me. Seems like a good location, within striking distance of the metropolis but with more room to breathe.
I grew up in a near northwest suburb of Chicago, just across the city limits from a Chicago neighborhood called Edison Park. Both towns were on the commuter line into the downtown, at the time called the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
I've been to 'Frisco several times. I saw Phantom of the Opera there, and my late wife and I saw Judy Chicago's expanded work The Dinner Party there with a SFran friend after waiting in a three-hour line ... fun to see all the to-do, and an interesting work as well.
In the Navy, I spent a few days there on leave at something called the Mark Twain hotel, a nice small hotel that was comfortable and quiet.
I grew up in a near northwest suburb of Chicago, just across the city limits from a Chicago neighborhood called Edison Park. Both towns were on the commuter line into the downtown, at the time called the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
I've been to 'Frisco several times. I saw Phantom of the Opera there, and my late wife and I saw Judy Chicago's expanded work The Dinner Party there with a SFran friend after waiting in a three-hour line ... fun to see all the to-do, and an interesting work as well.
In the Navy, I spent a few days there on leave at something called the Mark Twain hotel, a nice small hotel that was comfortable and quiet.
Lol. Oh they took hold immediately. Already well past a comma spent in both. Luckily I’ve gotten most of what I could ever want with many a panicked but usually successful Saturday morning (thanks Steve!), so hopefully the TAD wanes.
Mso. You seems to have had quite an exciting life so far, I’ll actually be near Chicago next month for work, probably won’t get much time in the city, but I’ve enjoyed myself there.
Forgot to mention my dad was born in raised in Philly, grew up an Eagles fan my whole life and got a bunch of cousins out in Bucks County
I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. I've spent a fair amount of visiting Philadelphia the last twelve years because of my involvement in NoirCon, a conference that started out celebrating the noir writer, David Goodis, who was a native Philadelphian.
When I was a young boy and really into football, my brother, Tim, took me to Triangle Sporting Goods in Brooklyn to get a football helmet—I really wanted the cranberry Kansas City Chiefs helmet, but, it was too tight—I ended up getting an Eagles helmet because it fit my large noggin. I still have it somewhere in storage.
My friend, Peter Wallach (son of the actor, Eli Wallach) has a place in Bucks County; Peter directed the animation for the "Sledgehammer" and Big Time" Peter Gabriel videos.
Do you use moustache wax? I mostly use Firehouse; in the summer, when it's humid, I use Can You Handlebar Secondary (I find the Primary isn't stiff enough to hold the curl).
Does the "bottles" in your user name refer to an interest in whiskies or beer, or something else?
BriarsAndBottles, if you did have time to get to downtown Chicago, you probably know about Iwan Ries, a Chicago pipe shop and lounge since 1857. It's on Wabash St. not far from the Art Institute and Millennial Park. I think it is the oldest pipe shop in the U.S. They say they have a pipe inventory of 15,000 pipes.
I also liked Nat Sherman in Manhattan, but it was not nearly so old and closed a few years ago.
I also liked Nat Sherman in Manhattan, but it was not nearly so old and closed a few years ago.
You have some awesome stories! Regarding the wax I use two, one to set the shape and one to hold. I like the grave before shave line for the first and also use secondary or this stuff i found on Etsy.
Bottles refers to whiskey (primarily quality Americans, though I always keep some from the isles on hand). But it could also be wine as I have a pretty nice “cellar” as well. You sound like you might enjoy a good tipple yourself?