Happy pipe - smoking anniversary Jim. Your famous reviews are always appreciated
Jim's 46th Pipe Smoking Anniversary.
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Congratulations ?? You have been smoking a pipe from before I was born
Jim, Happy Anniversary and THANK YOU! 
Quite a milestone Jim, congrats. Best wishes for another 40 years of happy puffing.
Wow! I had no idea I had that many likes. That is so cool!Here's some more math. Today, Jim has surpassed:
fifty thousand likes....
(That's like 50,000!!)
Way to go, Jim, and keep on truckin'!
Many thanks for all the kind words.
Congrats, Jim! Here’s wishing for 46 more.
Congratulations on your 46th! I bought my first pipe a few years after you. I had a pouch of Borkum Riff Bourbon about ten years ago and thought it was pretty good, didn't buy more, but enjoyed it. You certainly have been generous in sharing your intergalactic travel with pipe smoking, and we have all benefitted. Few if any will catch up with your wide ranging experience, but we have all enjoyed learning so much from it.
So you’re saying this is like Pipesmoking Christmas since the pipe tobacco savior was born! Congrats man you’ve been a great help to me and pretty much all pipesmokers!!!
Happy anniversary. Here's hoping you up that amount of tobacco smoked to two tons
Congratulation, Jim!
Though this is my 60th. year of pipe smoking, I haven't come anywhere close to your prodigious puffing. Rock on!
Though this is my 60th. year of pipe smoking, I haven't come anywhere close to your prodigious puffing. Rock on!
Congrats Jim! Keep on smokin Brother...
Congrats Jim! Your reviews and insight have certainly helped me a ton!
Your story about your friends still reminded me of a story my Grandfather told us about his time stationed in Hawaii during WWII. He was a Navy corpsman attached to a marine unit headed for the pacific campaign. Apparently while waiting for his company’s rotation some guys in another company back from their stint had set up a still someplace in the hills. These guys were apparently from old families of Carolina moonshiners and knew how to hide a still, though it could be smelt the higher ups never managed to find it despite many patrols and attempts. Apparently lacking the tools to test the stuff and having heard there was a corpsman around these guys came to him and said “hey doc! You’re in the medical field can you tell us if this is safe to drink?” He apparently not wanting to be involved in case they got caught told them he couldn’t help, but pointed out there were some stray cats around base. A few drunk cats later he assumed they had figured it out, then heard a rumor that few guys had been dishonorably discharged for dinking themselves blind. He said he was never sure if it was them or not, if something had gone wrong or if that had been their goal all along. Likely a good call on not being the test subject for your friends brew!
cheers to many more years of happy smoking!
Your story about your friends still reminded me of a story my Grandfather told us about his time stationed in Hawaii during WWII. He was a Navy corpsman attached to a marine unit headed for the pacific campaign. Apparently while waiting for his company’s rotation some guys in another company back from their stint had set up a still someplace in the hills. These guys were apparently from old families of Carolina moonshiners and knew how to hide a still, though it could be smelt the higher ups never managed to find it despite many patrols and attempts. Apparently lacking the tools to test the stuff and having heard there was a corpsman around these guys came to him and said “hey doc! You’re in the medical field can you tell us if this is safe to drink?” He apparently not wanting to be involved in case they got caught told them he couldn’t help, but pointed out there were some stray cats around base. A few drunk cats later he assumed they had figured it out, then heard a rumor that few guys had been dishonorably discharged for dinking themselves blind. He said he was never sure if it was them or not, if something had gone wrong or if that had been their goal all along. Likely a good call on not being the test subject for your friends brew!
cheers to many more years of happy smoking!
Very cool and interesting read. Written and presented like the artist you are. Congrats Jim!
YES, I remember your name coming up in an article I read on world carbon emission statistics he he, seriously though congratulations and may you have many more!
Congratulations on your anniversary and thank you for all the reviews! By coincidence mine also was 1974, with Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey (very popular at the time here and a half decent smoke indeed). Pipe was an Orik De-Lux which I still have.
That is the funniest durn thing I have ever read about me!!
