Thanks! I think this pipe will class up anybody! Maybe I should use this picture on LinkedIn 
.I’ve moved onto some crispy haunted bookshop to round out the evening.***What Are You Smoking, March 2025?***
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Thanks! I think this pipe will class up anybody! Maybe I should use this picture on LinkedIn .I’ve moved onto some crispy haunted bookshop to round out the evening.
P. Kildare Silver Mounted (X105) P-Lip + GLP Samarra
The absolute genius of Lewis Cowan (not Albert) at Marxman by middle 1953 had rendered a machine shaped cheap pipe able to be sold for $5 under government price controls and be purchased a virgin and turned to oxblood color in just one smoke and zero break in needed.
And on the second smoke, this one with Smoker’s Pride Cherry Cavendish, the Marxman would start to sweat.
Relaxing with a Marxman.
The sweat just wipes off.
Calls for some appropriate music!
Each Night at Nine- Floyd Tillman 1957 version
And by middle 1953 Marx flat out copied the Kaywoodie ball but unpolished with zero holes.
And on the second smoke, this one with Smoker’s Pride Cherry Cavendish, the Marxman would start to sweat.
Relaxing with a Marxman.
The sweat just wipes off.
Calls for some appropriate music!
Each Night at Nine- Floyd Tillman 1957 version
And by middle 1953 Marx flat out copied the Kaywoodie ball but unpolished with zero holes.
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Old Dark Fired ready rubbed in a 1983 Dunhill group 3 Zulu amber root that’s lost its amber. I love the tan color that shows the wood, though, and have no intention of re-staining. A smoke lasts a shockingly long time in this little thing.
Yikes! I think I need to clean some pipes.
Far right below is Nording?
Did a little low calorie snacking, and am near the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Watching The Odd Couple with Sleepy Suzy by my side. Molly Danger is on m'lady's lap.
Correct. A sitting freehand, bent plateau comfort pipe. Deep, deep chamber fit for Virginia blends.
Just caught up and finished 25 pages of the WAYS thread, so many beautiful pipes, Wow! Some Danish Gold in a Peterson, coffee 
Simply beautiful ! @BurleyVonPuffington
Now smoking year 2012 Anniversary Kake in a smooth burgundy medium bend 1979 Chippendale (Charatan second) Rhodesian 49 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Smokes as well as a first and worth the $19.95 I paid for it all those years ago.
Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.
I'm a little late to the party, but I'm now smoking Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake in a Peterson Aran.
I've been drinking JC Tradicional, and I just finished eating some carne picada tacos. I would like to say a word about Irish identity in the diaspora.
Ireland has always had a special connection with Iberia. Whether historically accurate or not, the belief that the Gaels originated in Galicia has birthed a real connection, especially after the explosion of Christian sectarianism in Northern Europe and England's colonialism and atrocities in Ireland. This has greatly impacted the history of the diaspora in the Americas.
I am fond of saying, "Los Irlandeses somos un tipo de Latinos" - we Irish are a type of Latino. Irish monks preserved the Latin language in the dark ages at a time when it was being mutilated on the continent by the attempts of Germanic interlocutors to use it as a vernacular language.
After the beginning of the plantation of Ireland, Irishmen fled to any nation which would give them them the opportunity to kill Englishman, especially France, Spain, and Portugal. This tradition continued in the Americas. A large cohort of Irishmen fought for Mexico against the the Englishman to the north, more than once. There were Irishmen among the Libertadores, two in leaders in particular, companions of Simon Bolivar - Juan McKenna and Bernardo O'Higgins. O'Higgins would go on the plant stakes in Chile, where a lake, a town, and a professional football club bear his name to this day. Mckenna would later die in a duel in Argentina.
In Mexico, abuelas to this day recite an incantation when applying Vick's to the chests of their grandchildren - "Sana, sana, colita de rana." This has been proven to be una brujería Irlandese, an Irish spell.
Cultural literacy has always been a characteristic of genuine Irish identity. Even our oral history preserves this fact, as the Gaels knew themselves not to be the indigenous people of Ireland. A battle was fought, and despite defeat, the king of the indigenous fir bolg was maimed, and thus ineligible for leadership by the law of the land. Through true democracy and meritocracy, both parties agreed to the election of a Gaelic king.
It is a natural consequence of entering modernity as a tribal people. Modern race theory never reached us. Your people are the people you live amongst. In most cases, this led to assimilation. In the Americas, the Irish found tribal people speaking the language of colonizers. Even before this, gaining some grasp or Spanish and/or Portuguese was an Irish tradition. It gave us legs to fly from our troubles and live freely among fellow Catholics.
When my grandmother was born in this country, Harvard still utilized textbooks which were emphatic - the Irish are NOT white people. Their biggest complaint? We were serial misceginators. In the Anglo mind, even the blacks could be lauded for learning by this time to stick to their own. But not those swarthy Irish monkeys.
St. Patrick's day in the US is mostly a racist farce. Ireland has a high proportion of gingers, but they are still a small minority. Every male in my family prior to me are 'black Irish' - permanently tanned and black haired. This was the common conception of the Irish before intermingling began. Even still, Irish is not a race. Their are Irish people of all races. Irish alcoholism is, like most examples of this phenomenon, the consequence of trauma. St. Patrick's day is just that, the Catholic feast day of a great missionary saint who formed Irish identity by leading us out of pagan darkness to the truth of Christ. St. Patrick was not Irish. He was a Romanized Briton, formerly enslaved on a barbaric pagan island. But again, it is a Catholic feast day, and to celebrate it as anything else to bastardize it and misunderstand Irish identity.
I'm not sure what my point is - I'm feelin warm and goin off, but I firmly believe that the majority of people who claim to be Irish are not. It's not so genetic, it's a culture, a tribal identity, a collective attitude. Tribal identity is fluid. This reality caused many of us to disappear into the people's we fled to, but the very fact of our assimilation and contribution to the cultures of those who welcomed us is exactly what makes us unique among most European peoples.
And for the record, 'Scots-Irish' or 'Ulster-Scots' people are not Irish. They are Scots who moved to Ulster to commit human rights abuses against the Irish during the plantation. They are thieves and brigands, historically despicable evil peoples. And many of them brought that skill set to America to work as overseers of enslaved people on this continent. That's why the battle flag of the confederacy is a St. Andrews cross. It's also why the flag of Jamaica is a St. Andrews cross.
So cheers to Margaret Thatchers stroke, the Queen's death, the Pope's recovery, and the nation of Montserrat. Have a taco, pray a rosary, learn another language, curse James Balfour and the state of Israel, and judge people on the basis of their values and behavior. We cannot be destroyed or subsumed, because we are God's people, in every color we come, and the gates of hell will not prevail against His Church. Amen.
P.S. - report me, no me importa un chingón
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And for the record, 'Scots-Irish' or 'Ulster-Scots' people are not Irish. They are Scots who moved to Ulster to commit human rights abuses against the Irish during the plantation. They are thieves and brigands, historically despicable evil peoples. And many of them brought that skill set to America to work as overseers of enslaved people on this continent. That's why the battle flag of the confederacy is a St. Andrews cross.
Xxxx
Not all of us Scottish lads, fought against freedom, but some of the best were recruited by Lincoln!
A nightcap with Buoy Gold in my Korean War era Marxman Jumbo.
When the Roses Bloom Again
Xxxx
Not all of us Scottish lads, fought against freedom, but some of the best were recruited by Lincoln!
A nightcap with Buoy Gold in my Korean War era Marxman Jumbo.
When the Roses Bloom Again
non ministrari sed ministrare
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I should offer the very confusing, sectarian caveat that the Scots actually are Irish. Just not the loyalists and plantationersAnd for the record, 'Scots-Irish' or 'Ulster-Scots' people are not Irish. They are Scots who moved to Ulster to commit human rights abuses against the Irish during the plantation. They are thieves and brigands, historically despicable evil peoples. And many of them brought that skill set to America to work as overseers of enslaved people on this continent. That's why the battle flag of the confederacy is a St. Andrews cross.
Xxxx
Not all of us Scottish lads, fought against freedom, but some of the best were recruited by Lincoln!
A nightcap with Buoy Gold in my Korean War era Marxman Jumbo.
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When the Roses Bloom Again
non ministrari sed ministrare
Still thieves and brigands though, the very Irishmen who stole the land of Scotland
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking Wilke No. 515 Double Shot in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This is No. 515 with twice the rum of the Basil Rathbone blend. I should be able to end the day with this smoke. Harry the Hairy has been extra needy this evening. He's been by my side for last half hour.
Exclusive in a Savinelli 626 Tre Rusticated.
As I posted on another thread, I enjoyed a St. Patrick's Day dinner with the family of my wife's corned beef and cabbage, potatoes with pints of Guinness on the side.
After dinner I smoked one of the pipes that she bought me at the Grafton Street shop in Dublin during our tour of Ireland in 2002, a Peterson Antique Collection 1910 smooth bulldog (hallmarked N 1999) filled with some vintage Peterson's Sweet Killarney (c. 2004).
A snifter of Jameson's was my tipple. Sláinte!
After dinner I smoked one of the pipes that she bought me at the Grafton Street shop in Dublin during our tour of Ireland in 2002, a Peterson Antique Collection 1910 smooth bulldog (hallmarked N 1999) filled with some vintage Peterson's Sweet Killarney (c. 2004).
A snifter of Jameson's was my tipple. Sláinte!
Old Joe Krantz in an Irish Seconds Calabash 05.