Hello Pipers...It’s Been Awhile

[aro222]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

Hey everyone I haven’t been on the forums for a while. How’s everybody doing ? Since the last time I was here I see the layout has changed but I’m still seeing some familiar names.
It’s been such a crazy year and yet there is still some things that haven’t changed...a hot coffee and bowl of my favorite leaf.
Good to be chatting again boys
Cheers

 

[tschiraldi]

Welcome back! I took a long hiatus myself. Good to see you on here again.

 

[smknron]

Definitely one of the craziest years I've seen in a while. In all honesty, no matter how crazy it might be, I'll still be smoking one of my pipes that's for sure. Looking at your avatar, the popeye intro song, running in my head, haha, I watched Popeye all the time growing up. I think it was on tv early in the morning and around 4 o'clock after school if I remember right

 

[shermnatman]

Great to see old friends back! - Sherm Natman

 

[mso489]

Every time you think you've gotten away ... we drag you back in. Good to hear, and long time no see.

 

[aro222]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9)

Hey everyone I haven’t been on the forums for a while. How’s everybody doing ? Since the last time I was here I see the layout has changed but I’m still seeing some familiar names.
It’s been such a crazy year and yet there is still some things that haven’t changed...a hot coffee and bowl of my favorite leaf.
Good to be chatting again boys
Cheers

Oops sorry about that. It’s been a while
Thanks for the reminder

 

[scloyd]

Welcome back.

 

[aro222]

So what have I missed ? The last time I posted we were all worried about the tobacco apocalypse. I began growing my cellar and buying up as much Latakia and Gawith I could get my hands on.
Ditched my PAD and started my TAD.
Lol
Have things gotten worse ?
It seems smoking pipes doesn’t have the variety it once did.
I’m glad I bulked up on my Frigate as well

 

[aro222]

Every time you think you've gotten away ... we drag you back in. Good to hear, and long time no see.

Ha Ha Ha
Good to be back

 

[aro222]

Great to see old friends back! - Sherm Natman

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Good to see you Sherm

 

[aro222]

Definitely one of the craziest years I've seen in a while. In all honesty, no matter how crazy it might be, I'll still be smoking one of my pipes that's for sure. Looking at your avatar, the popeye intro song, running in my head, haha, I watched Popeye all the time growing up. I think it was on tv early in the morning and around 4 o'clock after school if I remember right

Welcome back! I took a long hiatus myself. Good to see you on here again.

Good to be back brother

 

[shermnatman]

Have things gotten worse ?
It seems smoking pipes doesn’t have the variety it once did.
I’m glad I bulked up on my Frigate as well

Well, yes.

D&R is basically out - they dropped tons and tons of their titles - like Picayune - from their offerings; citing rising costs of growing certain tobaccos. ?

Nat Sherman's is out - pipe tabaks, cigars, cigaettes, cigarellos, cigarettellos, the whole schmear - history.

Dunhill is out; though Peterson has been bringing back their titles at an acceptable clip; but still waiting for DurBar to reappear.

Lot's of weird legislation being bandied and battled about - mostly originating out of California; though I just read in Tobacco Business magazine, where a Florida representative is looking to also jump on the anti-tobacco nonsense bandwagon. ?

Total weirdness coming out of Middleton/Altria/Philip Morris regarding Prince Albert 14oz tubs - which all the big boy distributors have been out of since mid-November 2020 ; and now Carter Hall 14 oz tubs are out-of-stock most places too; and according to the Middleton rep, neither of those 14 oz tubs will be shipping to California in the future. ?‍

Russ Ouellette has been MIA from the forum here for quite some time now; which really hurts us; especially with so much up in the air with the pipe tobacco industry these days.?‍

Glad you asked? - Sherm Natman

 

[morior8]

Well, yes.

D&R is basically out - they dropped tons and tons of their titles - like Picayune - from their offerings; citing rising costs of growing certain tobaccos. ?

Nat Sherman's is out - pipe tabaks, cigars, cigaettes, cigarellos, cigarettellos, the whole schmear - history.

Dunhill is out; though Peterson has been bringing back their titles at an acceptable clip; but still waiting for DurBar to reappear.

Lot's of weird legislation being bandied and battled about - mostly originating out of California; though I just read in Tobacco Business magazine, where a Florida representative is looking to also jump on the anti-tobacco nonsense bandwagon. ?

Total weirdness coming out of Middleton/Altria/Philip Morris regarding Prince Albert 14oz tubs - which all the big boy distributors have been out of since mid-November 2020 ; and now Carter Hall 14 oz tubs are out-of-stock most places too; and according to the Middleton rep, neither of those 14 oz tubs will be shipping to California in the future. ?‍

Russ Ouellette has been MIA from the forum here for quite some time now; which really hurts us; especially with so much up in the air with the pipe tobacco industry these days.?‍

Glad you asked? - Sherm Natman

I probably jumped back on the bandwagon a little late in the game but I'll be stocking up my cellar as best I can. Keeping an eye on these legislations and the like. A lot of local shops in my area in Colorado have severely cut back on anything other than cigarettes and cigars. Kinda sad to see and I'll never get to try a lot of good old stuff more than likely unless I hit some sort of trade sale or something. But at least there's still a decent variety out there.

 

[aro222]

Definitely one of the craziest years I've seen in a while. In all honesty, no matter how crazy it might be, I'll still be smoking one of my pipes that's for sure. Looking at your avatar, the popeye intro song, running in my head, haha, I watched Popeye all the time growing up. I think it was on tv early in the morning and around 4 o'clock after school if I remember right

Well, yes.

D&R is basically out - they dropped tons and tons of their titles - like Picayune - from their offerings; citing rising costs of growing certain tobaccos. ?

Nat Sherman's is out - pipe tabaks, cigars, cigaettes, cigarellos, cigarettellos, the whole schmear - history.

Dunhill is out; though Peterson has been bringing back their titles at an acceptable clip; but still waiting for DurBar to reappear.

Lot's of weird legislation being bandied and battled about - mostly originating out of California; though I just read in Tobacco Business magazine, where a Florida representative is looking to also jump on the anti-tobacco nonsense bandwagon. ?

Total weirdness coming out of Middleton/Altria/Philip Morris regarding Prince Albert 14oz tubs - which all the big boy distributors have been out of since mid-November 2020 ; and now Carter Hall 14 oz tubs are out-of-stock most places too; and according to the Middleton rep, neither of those 14 oz tubs will be shipping to California in the future. ?‍

Russ Ouellette has been MIA from the forum here for quite some time now; which really hurts us; especially with so much up in the air with the pipe tobacco industry these days.?‍

Glad you asked? - Sherm Natman

Wow !!
I don’t like where this is headed
It’s a real shame.