***What Are You Smoking, April 2025?***

[BlueRidge]

Good afternoon and happy Friday. Golden Extra in a Castello

 

[gord]

My first post without picture . . . . currently enjoying Bengal Slices in my McQueen Acorn as I review and comment on today's proceedings. Done my verbose madness for today above.

Will wonders never cease?

 

[krizzose]

2018 Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Tinsky acorn

 

[gord]

Simply Red Cake in my Yeti paneled egg.

A Stunning pipe! Magnificent grain! And I love that corridor between your table and the far room. Looks like a candidate for an in-house target range! That's my project for the next couple of days at my pad

 

[gord]

A lovely birthday all around, and thank you again to everyone for the well wishes. Here's the day's rundown:

Morning:

Meal: Sunny side-up eggs, hashed browns, toast
Pipe: Savinelli Mattone 614 faux-Hungarian
Tobacco: Drew Estate Grand Central
Drink: coffee

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Afternoon:

Meal: Smoked whitefish, bagel w/cream cheese
Pipe: Savinelli Porto Cervo 122 rusticated pot
Tobacco: Mac Baren Symphony
Drink: coffee

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Bird report: White-crowned sparrow, House finch, California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, California towhee, California quail, American crow, Red-tailed hawk (spectacularly chased away by the crows), Oak titmouse, Northern flicker, Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Hairy woodpecker, Blue-grey gnatcatcher, Western bluebird, and Spotted towhee.

Was going to squeeze in a 3rd bowl, but dinner ran late. Will pick up where I left off tomorrow, especially with a late-season snowstorm coming through. Be well everyone!

Do you ever stalk those birds with a lens? That hawk/crow confrontation would be great in a photo context!

 

[keith929]

C&D Wintertime Reserve Hearthside in a Peterson 87 Apple.

 

[Servant King]

Do you ever stalk those birds with a lens? That hawk/crow confrontation would be great in a photo context!

I tend to do most of my stalking from a stationary position. At least that's what the judge insisted I do.

 

[Steddy]

Glorious Gawith Dark Pug in a little Meer for the ride home from work last night.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Jim’s Special Flake 2023 in a 1984 black rusticated full bend Peterson Mark Twain military mount egg with a silver cap and tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. I got a big batch of this today, so I'll have enough to last me a long time. Been playing with Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger, who is spending more time in the den since we've reduced the time ferals spend there. Molly's been more needy of my time than ever lately, and I'm happy to accommodate the li'l sweetie.

 

[rsshreck32]

Sermon prep with some Burley Flake #1 in a Peterson Christmas Sandblasted X105 this afternoon. Sparkling Water to drink. Enjoy the day friends from afar!

 

[folkleaf]

BMP in a 608 Irish Harp. Grilling brats after this. May need to smoke a cigar while I do that.

 

[jaytex1969]

Deja vu. Another load of GH&Co Dark Flake Scented in a Hilson Vintage Prince.

This pipe is well on its way to a permanent Lakeland Ghost...



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[Skink]

Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Dark Flake Unscented in a Savinelli Trevi #311 KS Poker with a cup of black tea.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

The character of Jethro Bodine was based on the character of Sy Thomas, who in real life was my wonderful Uncle Jiggs (Gerald Agee).

The dead pan self deprecating riotously funny humor of the Beverly Hillbillies and the Ma and Pa series in The Index that inspired it was the sole creation of my grandmother Myrtle (Ma) Cahow Agee, 1897 - 1980.

And there really was a Bug Tussle.

A young man named Emmet Molder and his wife bought the Hamlet store from an old man named Hamlet in the twenties and changed the name to Bug Tussle.

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When I was a toddler Ma Agee would take me to my back yard, and say

Could you show me Bug Tussle?

I’d point a half mile Northwest and say, There’s Bug Tussle, don’t you see it Grandma?

She’d reply I’m an old lady and all I see is a little house way over yonder.

Let’s go to the Grade A milk barn and have your Daddy tell us all, about how Bug Tussle used to be.

If I’m not a good man, it’s impossible to blame my upbringing.

A one-word version also exists just over the TN line in KY.

Bugtussle, Kentucky - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Hpgg71]

Pegasus in a Savinelli Saint Nicholas 602.

 

[Fralphog]

Happy Friday All!
Some 2011 Marlin Flake in a Bertram 30 Pot. Some ice water accompanying.

 

[Fralphog]

I have a jar of that Whatever???? from last year. We should compare them sometime to see how wildly it varies.

That sounds like a plan!
This “Batch” has some very nice subtle coffee, nutty flavors going on with maybe some coco? Could it be some scraps from the beloved Cowboy Coffee!

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of GLP Ellipsis Flake (Zeitgeist Collection) in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow stem. Finally have a handle on what my observations of this blend are. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Abner the Eager came back to eat, and snooze. I had to put Harry the Hairy out because he wanted to bother Abner.

 

[BlueRidge]

Dark Bird’s Eye in a meer

 

[JimInks]

The character of Jethro Bodine was based on the character of Sy Thomas, who in real life was my wonderful Uncle Jiggs (Gerald Agee).

The dead pan self deprecating riotously funny humor of the Beverly Hillbillies and the Ma and Pa series in The Index that inspired it was the sole creation of my grandmother Myrtle (Ma) Cahow Agee, 1897 - 1980.

And there really was a Bug Tussle.

A young man named Emmet Molder and his wife bought the Hamlet store from an old man named Hamlet in the twenties and changed the name to Bug Tussle.

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When I was a toddler Ma Agee would take me to my back yard, and say

Could you show me Bug Tussle?

I’d point a half mile Northwest and say, There’s Bug Tussle, don’t you see it Grandma?

She’d reply I’m an old lady and all I see is a little house way over yonder.

Let’s go to the Grade A milk barn and have your Daddy tell us all, about how Bug Tussle used to be.

If I’m not a good man, it’s impossible to blame my upbringing.

The Beverly Hillbillies, just like The Andy Griffith Show, had elements of the old Lum and Abner radio show. Andy Griffith is on record as saying that since he was a big fan of that show as well as Vic and Sade. Jed Clampett was much like Lum Edwards, only he had more common sense than Lum. Chester Lauck, who played and created the Lum character, certainly thought that Buddy Ebsen copied the Lum character right down to having a similar mustache. Jethro could have easily have been the Cedric Weehunt character in L&A as well.

I found this quote from Yahoo!: In trying to figure out how he wanted to portray Jethro Bodine on the show, he found inspiration from comedians Jonathan Winters and Andy Griffith, the latter of whom, of course, was starring in The Andy Griffith Show at the time. Said Baer, "I bought albums they recorded and listening to them by the hour. The accent I use isn't authentic by any means. It's just country Southern; it isn't supposed to represent any particular section of the country."