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

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am a quarter of the way through this bowl of C&D From Beyond 2023 (Small Batch) in an undated, unbranded straight lattice meerschaum military mount with a silver cap and tapered yellow acrylic stem. Going to post the review sometime today.

 

[cshubhra]

Earlier in the morning I smoked Daughters & Ryan Three Sails in a Sasieni Two Dot Dublin

Now it’s cigar time - Cuban Romeo y Julietta

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Wilke Royal Scot in a very old Radice Rind, sipping coffee and sharpening some knives

 

[bluegrassbrian]

HU Janneman flake in the Il Duca B strawberry wood bent with horn.

 

[sardonicus87]

Throat feels a little sore (probably a combination of smoking a bunch of SWR regular and allergies). Still debating on what's going to be my all day smoke to cut back on cigarettes, might give GLP Westminster a go for that. Or I might get some 6mm charcoal filters for my Sav and stick with SWR and see if that helps.

So instead of Maple Shadows, I decided to give my throat a break and load up some C&D Steamworks in the meer for this afternoon.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter 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.

 

[PipeIT]

I miss Boston, I went to Berklee for a while. Recorded a record there in the 90s. Good time of year there now but winters suck. enjoy!

Wow, a Rock Star! LOL

So is the music out there somewhere online we can listen to?

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

A small (half sized) Toscano cigar, in other words: a "Τoscanello". There are many variations, I prefer the "Nero". It has chocolate aroma (dipped in real chocolate the producer says).
On the side: Lyre's American Malt. I find that some ice enhances the taste and the flavour.
Have a nice Monday evening/night good people!

 

[Bbailey324]

Maple Shadows in a Peterson Aran bent billiard. I'm enjoying this tobacco.

 

[Michigan_Bill]

Orlik Mellow Mixture in a clay. The clouds parted for a moment for a fine autumn day. Very nice all around.

 

[KORNEY]

Very nice piece. The cactus bed background is very creative, kudos.

Thanks!

 

[KORNEY]

Good day for some Rum Twist.
Hope it stays quiet!

Thanks.
It will be not quite for a long time unfortunately….

 

[PipeIT]

Earliest European image of tobacco smoking, from Chute's "Tobacco" (1595):

Tobacco - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

He's got a clay pipe!

Wow, really cool thanks for sharing, a drawing of the first man in Europe smoking a pipe.

I see they have a Wiki page for Chute.

Anthony Chute - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

I saw too, his publication Tobaco is online and you can also buy it.

I just found this on UK history, thought you might like to read it.

‘James I & VI: How was tobacco viewed, consumed, and traded in the Stuart period’?

Tobacco - The National Archives

In 1604, James I of England and James VI of Scotland published his ‘Counterblaste to Tobacco’. He condemned the use of tobacco on the grounds of its poisonous effects on the body. He wrote that smoking was a ‘custome lothesome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to...

www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

 

[FurCoat]

Scarecrow in a Dracula

 

[Tbaggins]

Some old Dunhill flake in an Eltang mini poker

 

[Ben.R.C]

Off work, Hal O’ The Wynd in a Satou. Edit: I love coming back to a blend and remembering I love it! It’s got a year age on it at this point, so that may help, good nic hit too!

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Afternoon smoke in my Morgan’s nose warmer. Country Squire Cherokee will work, finishing up the coffee

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking year 2012 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Watching the D-Backs-Phillies game.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Off work, Hal O’ The Wynd in a Satou. Edit: I love coming back to a blend and remembering I love it! It’s got a year age on it at this point, so that may help, good nic hit too!
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Round 2 of the same,

 

[Ben.R.C]

Wow, a Rock Star! LOL

So is the music out there somewhere online we can listen to?

Yes, it is. We were one of those bands that almost made it. From 1991.

Carolina Music Fridays: Metal Flake Mother

Metal Flake Mother emerged from the Chapel Hill music scene in the early '90s. The Pixies-influenced foursome consisted of Benjamin Ross Cla...

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