I've been a casual pipe smoker for at least 20 years now and am new to this site. I've learned so much in the past couple of months being in these forums, that I feel like I am new to pipes and pipe smoking. Having gone solo all these years, it's really been interesting and fascinating to hear others talk of tobacco, pipes, and techniques. Reading the forums will elicit "Really? You can do that?", "Didn't think that was possible", "Is that even allowed?", "I honestly never would've thought of that", "I'm trying that as soon as I get off of work", "that's hilarious, but makes sense", "I'm never going to do that", "I'm definitely going to do that", etc.