@ sablebrush52....
I just did a perfect, "spit-take" while drinking my morning coffee. Hilarious comments. Thanks....you made my day start with an out loud, laugh.
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Interesting article. Some of these brief, "how-to-smoke-a-pipe" tutorials can be informative, especially for the first time pipe-smokers. I wish I read a few how-tos" before I loaded my first briar with Mixture No. 79, and freight-trained my head into the nearest toilet.
But.... some of the older, vintage tutorials can be a bit ridiculous. I could just see a bunch of mincing GQ fops, showing up at a pipe show, wearing brocade, smoking jackets! "The Manscaped-Millennial-Metrosexual Snowflakes of The Briar".
Grab your chest wig, and merkin and meet me at the Dunhill table.
Frank
NYC