Life's Meaning Through Our Pipes

[admin]

This one is poetic. Spoken like a true pipe guy.

http://pipesmagazine.com/blog/the-pipe-pundit/life’s-meaning-through-our-pipes/

 

[mikethompson]

Slowing down has given me the holy grail of tobacco tastes

That advice was given to me when I started out and I've never looked back.

 

[Chasing Embers]

It has been my experience that you can trust a man or woman who smokes a pipe. Who else has that kind of patience, but a trustworthy person?

8O

 

[bnichols23]

Zing, Duane. Good one!
B

 

[Chasing Embers]

:mrgreen:
It always amazes me when someone categorizes pipe smokers into a type.

 

[anantaandroscoggin]

In the case of some of us, it may simply be the pauses to take a puff on the pipe, instead of uttering "Uhhhh . . . you know . . . " repeatedly.

 

[bnichols23]

always amazes me when someone categorizes pipe smokers

Yup. I've found there are two types of people in this world, those who categorize pipe smokers, & ..... ::

 

[elpfeife]

Stalin once told me he was very trustworthy. And kind.

 

[warren]

It always amazes me when someone categorizes pipe smokers into a type.

And, they choose their paragons of pipe smoking carefully, omitting Stalin and any others not fitting their chosen profile of pipe smoking icons. Stalin was indeed trustworthy and kind to ... Stalin.

 

[brian64]

Stalin is an important example of a pipe smoker...because the fact that he loved pipe tobacco proves that no one is 100% evil.

 

[olkofri]

Was it really tobacco in his pipe? Or something else to mollify his conscience's tattered remains?

 

[brian64]

...plus at least he got rid of Trotsky.

 

[brian64]

Or something else to mollify his conscience's tattered remains?

It was the pipe tobacco that enabled him to retain those tattered remains.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

I know what uncle Joe mainly smoked but have no clue what pipe brands did he prefer,,

 

[Chasing Embers]

Then there was this fellow.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Stalin is an important example of a pipe smoker...because the fact that he loved pipe tobacco proves that no one is 100% evil.

I've read that he smoked his favorite cigarette tobacco from his youth in his pipes.

His choice of tobacco was "Herzegovina Flor" which became known as "Stalin's Choice." Since it only appeared in cigarettes, Stalin would take two cigarettes out of a box and shred them into his pipe. Pipe tobacco at the time was cheap and rough and he had become rather fond of the flavor of the cigarettes when he was a young man.

 

[brian64]

^ Well, that does complicate things a bit. But I'm guessing it was still real tobacco, unlike the crap that modern, mass-produced cigarettes are filled with. And as suggested above, there may not have been anything better available anyway.
So he may still have not achieved pure evil status.