***What Are You Smoking, April 2023?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've a third of a bowl left of Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem. Watching the Braves-Marlins game.

 

[JimInks]

Very interesting about the Bill Finger Award. Thanks for sharing.

You're very welcome. The Bill Finger story is a long one of lack of money and credit for being the major creator of Batman. I, along with a few others, spent years working to get Finger some due for his achievements. Bob Kane did everything he could to diminish, ignore, and most certainly lie about the facts of Batman's creation. It wasn't until 2015 that DC and the Kane estate yielded to pressure, and gave Finger credit on everything related to Batman. Even then, instead of full credit, the representation reads "Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger". A few times somebody at DC posted it as "Batman created created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger". I still hope for the latter to be a permanent across the board change. Finger, who died broke, alone and uncredited in 1974, deserved better.

 

[tfdickson]

First run Rouxgaroux in my BST.

 

[Carol]

Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes! I will try to keep my BAC below the US dollar inflation rate. Shouldn't be too difficult, by the looks of things.

Just pulled my golf clubs out of the attic (mouse free for six months and counting!). Packing up my little one-pipe case with my MM Dagner poker and a pre-dried baggie of Drew Estate Harvest On Hudson. Going to be a fun one, provided that my playing partner refrains from discussing the LA Kings hockey team and their embarrassing performance last night...

Bird report: California scrub-jay, Dark-eyed junco, Steller's jay, California towhee, California quail, California kingbird, Red-tailed hawk, and Mountain chickadee. I'm sure there will be others on the course later.

Hope everyone has a good week.

Happy Birthday!

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Perfection Plug is a really nice burley in my Wilke Made in NYC Canadian

 

[Backwoods Briar]

You're very welcome. The Bill Finger story is a long one of lack of money and credit for being the major creator of Batman. I, along with a few others, spent years working to get Finger some due for his achievements. Bob Kane did everything he could to diminish, ignore, and most certainly lie about the facts of Batman's creation. It wasn't until 2015 that DC and the Kane estate yielded to pressure, and gave Finger credit on everything related to Batman. Even then, instead of full credit, the representation reads "Batman created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger". A few times somebody at DC posted it as "Batman created created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger". I still hope for the latter to be a permanent across the board change. Finger, who died broke, alone and uncredited in 1974, deserved better.

Very interesting, I never knew that about Bill Finger. I just sold a few of my Batman comics. The ones introducing the major villains, those are still in demand. I’m using the money for pipes. Exchanging one passion for another. Good information, thank you Mr. inks

 

[JimInks]

About a quarter of a bowl left of aged Rattrays Hal O’ The Wynd in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII (Comoy’s) Corinthian De-Luxe 126 pot made for Sutliff in San Francisco with a black tapered vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[mbmoehl]

Smoking some SG 1792 Flake in a MM Country Gentleman.

Really dig this pipe rest.

 

[JimInks]

Nearing the first third of this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff 507-C Slices in a sandblasted medium bend 1950s Reuben era Charatan Deluxe 11 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[tnfan]

McClelland Christmas Cheer (2012) in a J.T. Cooke Poker. Almost finished with this tin. Enough left for one more bowl.

 

[cshubhra]

Happy birthday @Servant King

I am smoking Russ Oulette Acadian English in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[Ben.R.C]

Last bowl of the first tin of Anomalous and last bowl of the night in a Castello Sea rock

 

[onestrangeone]

Bayou Morning in a Radice apple

 

[Scottmi]

Wessex Brown Virginia Flake in the big bent lattice meer.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Mix of MacB Vanilla Cream and DAN Devil’s Holiday in a Lee three star Lovat

 

[cwpiperman]

Currently smoking my 1st bowl of the day. GLP Quiet Nights from 2018, in an IMP Meer:

Nice cold Dr. Pepper on the side.

Weather for Pilots/Nerds/Geeks

250253Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 01/M03 A3016 RMK AO2

 

[Ryan]

Sutliff Elizabethan Match in a Stanwell Featherweight.

 

[sittingbear]

Same date of birth! Happy birthday!!

Wow! Happy belated!

 

[lkwttwkl]

SG - Perfection in a Peterson Spigot 925 701

 

[Auxsender]

McClelland Christmas Cheer (2012) in a J.T. Cooke Poker. Almost finished with this tin. Enough left for one more bowl.

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This might be my favorite of your amazing collection that I’ve seen. That rustication is just beautiful.