Prince Albert

[Jacob74]

Every bowl you have, you share with him. I'll raise a glass to your father in law, and to the simple pleasures.

 

[telescopes]

LIke everything else, the run on a product becomes its reality.

 

[telescopes]

In 2009 my father-in-law passed away. He was a veteran of WW2; fought in the Pacific. In any event, I looked down my nose at the PA he smoked. I tried for years to "open his eyes" by giving him gifts of much higher quality tobacco and pipes to smoke. I wanted him to "see the light" of a higher quality smoking experience. But it was always PA and a "drug store" pipe. About a year after his funeral (he died on his 90th Bday - so much for his pipe killing him) I found a 14oz tin of PA in the Military BX where I served, marked with a clearance price of $15! So I bought it and smoked a bowl in honor of him. Wow, I actually liked it! I don't smoke it regularly, but its among my blends. I wish now I had shared a bowl with him while we sat on the porch enjoying our day.

There was a time when I tried to "expose" my dad and friends to some "better" choices. I've since learned to appreciate sitting in a dive bar in Bombay Beach at the Salton Sea drinking PBR or a Coors Light at a roadhouse eating a greasy hamburger and washing it down with a Coors Light.It's the company I am keeping that is important. People who neither judge or require me to do as they do. It took a while, but I even appreciate the women with the gold "teeths", LOL. So lets light up our corn cobs and have a smoke of good o' PA while we can.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Reminds me of cough medicine from when I was a little lad.................

I've since bought a couple of pounds, I like it ok... but I bet those couple of pounds will be a lifetime supply.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

My supply of antique PA is dwindling, and I don't even have any new PA on hand currently. I never thought I would need to stock up on codger blends, but a lot of them are out of stock right now. I haven't even tried all of them yet, I just assumed they would always be available. Not smart, I learned in grade school what happens when you assume.

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Yep.. I did the same thing. I figured I could wait to really stock up. I'm down to about a pound. After that... that's all she wrote.

 

[telescopes]

I don’t believe this is the end for the Prince. How? Why? It would be so wrong! It makes me want to rider a pizza.

 

[telescopes]

I don’t believe this is the end for the Prince. How? Why? It would be so wrong! It makes me want to order a pizza.

 

[Jacob74]

What you do to pizzas in your own time is none of my business. I'm not here to judge.

 

[telescopes]

Not sure if anyone got the pizza reference. Pizza is the new code word conspiracy theory.

 

[Jacob74]

I can neither confirm nor deny that I may (or may not), have understood your reference.

 

[PapeChulo]

The PA short squeeze is about to happen. Great googly moogly! Invest in PA and in 2 years you'll be able to sell it for 180 a tub.

So when you open these older tins of PA do you get a strong vinegary smell? I have a few of them and when I open them that smell is very pungent and distracts from the smoke experience. Just curious.

 

[anotherbob]

Second theory on what's happened to the Prince. They read the first post on here and just gave up. A bit of an over reaction but....

 

[canucklehead]

So when you open these older tins of PA do you get a strong vinegary smell? I have a few of them and when I open them that smell is very pungent and distracts from the smoke experience. Just curious.

@cosmicfolklore @sablebrush52 ?? Round two, codger edition.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Yep.. @BROBS ended the brand. killed it. his review was the final straw. He killed em just because he could..

 

[BROBS]

Yep.. @BROBS ended the brand. killed it. his review was the final straw. He killed em just because he could..

Hahaha yeah so many people care what I say the execs killed it

 

[BROBS]

HOWEVER MIXTURE 79 REMAINS...
CURIOUS. ?

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

HOWEVER MIXTURE 79 REMAINS...
CURIOUS. ?

You smoke Mixture 79! See!

 

[BROBS]

You smoke Mixture 79! See!

Next thing Velvet and Paladin will become grail tobaccos.

 

[crawdad]

Next thing Velvet and Paladin will become grail tobaccos.

Only if you should wish it, oh powerful Brobs. The unseemly demise of PA was but a sampling of such.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

No shit.. If you don't buy a few tubs of Velvet now you'll miss your chance. A guy at the local B&M told me that last week.. so there it is.