Really like Osage orange wood. We have some native in our area. It's beautiful and strong.
The (Un)Official PipesMagazine Secret Santa 2021!
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BTW, I filled out my preferences on the initial form but it seems many are posting them here.
Thusly ...
I have found that English blends seem to be my favorite, but I'm still exploring. So much so that after I unpack the order that arrived today, and when the next 2 orders arrive in a few days, I'll have about 55 blends that I've never tried before. Meaning that I'm still plenty adventurous.
That new 55 is above the 7 or 8 fav's that I've acquired multiples of, and even dedicated a pipe to; (4 English blends, 2 virginia, 2 burly) and the 6 or 8 that either didn't please my palate or were just ok.
I did move away from the initial aromatics that plagued my learning path in the beginning. Although I'm not sure if my greater level of experience would now allow me to smoke them more appropriately and avoid the problems I had in the past.
And if I receive a gag gift, I'll just play along and consider myself a potential "member of the club".
Cheers
Thusly ...
I have found that English blends seem to be my favorite, but I'm still exploring. So much so that after I unpack the order that arrived today, and when the next 2 orders arrive in a few days, I'll have about 55 blends that I've never tried before. Meaning that I'm still plenty adventurous.
That new 55 is above the 7 or 8 fav's that I've acquired multiples of, and even dedicated a pipe to; (4 English blends, 2 virginia, 2 burly) and the 6 or 8 that either didn't please my palate or were just ok.
I did move away from the initial aromatics that plagued my learning path in the beginning. Although I'm not sure if my greater level of experience would now allow me to smoke them more appropriately and avoid the problems I had in the past.
And if I receive a gag gift, I'll just play along and consider myself a potential "member of the club".
Cheers
Never added my preferences! I love latakia and cigar based tobacco! I dislike aro’s
We need to get this back off track here?
Well, delayed gratification isn't always all it's cracked up to be!
I'm hoping the point of that pic isn't that Santa is a proctologist. The gloves are a bit unsettling.
THANK YOU everyone for posting your preferences. I now have everyone's faves added to the master list.
We can have fun? (Within reason)
Not seasonal, but white. And absurd, like this thread.?
Is this the list Jon did you for you?! Have you checked his access privileges, as I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a little grinch in him and shuffles them all around before you send it out
Don’t listen to Ahi La. I’d never do that. And I especially wouldn’t change all the ship-to addresses to my home in New Jersey. Never ever. No matter what all my friends, family, enemies, and random acquaintances might say.
Jon's list was very helpful, but the real work happens here:
Dan's Office
Very solitary, very safe, very sanitary.
Of course, there is far too much participant data for just one person to parse, so much of the work needs to be farmed out. The data remains quite secure, divied up into bits and bytes and sent off to Santa's Village, where the Little People push the electrons around, one by one, so that no one worker ever sees the rhyme or reason of the entirety of it all.
Santa's Village
Eventually, all the data is loaded onto specially trained mules and brought back to Secret Santa World Headquarters, each packet taking a different route, and with numerous decoys sent out along the way to confuse and undermine the efforts of our nemesis, The (Un)Official PipesMagazine Secret Satan Extravaganza.
Secret Santa participant data takes a circuitous route back to SSWHQ
Once back at the SSWHQ, the data is carefully reassembled by our crack team of data scientists. This is all done in black and white, for no particular reason whatsoever.
Secret Santa data scientists reassemble participant data.
Finally, the fully digested participant data is encoded into Carmen Miranda's hat...
Carmen Miranda
...and sent off to the basement, where the matches are made.
Matches being made
The rest, you already know.
I hope this helps.
-Santa Dan
OK, behold the seasonal Americana! (Guessing this will help the reset, lol, or promote backlash)!
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