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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Part way through this bowl of Royal Yacht in a 1970s smooth GBD 9665 slight bend with a rough top flat bottom sitter. Not going to have much to say today.
My next door neighbor and one of my best friends unexpectedly passed away while taking a nap this afternoon. I suspected something wasn't right when I talked to him a couple of days ago, but I didn't think he was about to pass. His name was Jimmy Sampson. He won the Silver Star in Vietnam. He took out a sniper's nest on a hill that had his fellow soldiers trapped below, and though he was shot a few times, he saved the lives of his buddies. The experience stayed with him, though he was very humble about what he did, and never considered himself a hero. But he was. He was a good man who always did his best for others, seldom thinking about himself. RIP, my friend.

 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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In honor of my friend, Jimmy, I'm smoking a blend he commented very favorably on just the other day: P&W #515 in a 1998 smooth straight Butz-Choquin Bistro 1501 pot.
For Jimmy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZjldSvro1A

 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,211
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My dark burley and Cavendish/walnut mix in BC straight blast billiard w/tapered stem

 

weezell

Lifer
Oct 12, 2011
13,653
49,171
50/50 mix McClelland Bulk VBC - Vanilla Black Cavendish and 1Q in a MM Cob, dedicated to Jims friend. God Bless him and May he Rest in Peace...

 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Thanks for all the kind thoughts, fellas. Jimmy would have liked people having a smoke for him, as I have done all day and am now: Peretti’s Burley Slices in a 1979 straight smooth Dr. Grabow Grand Duke 45 pot.

 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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FVF in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend black acrylic military mount 320KS author.

 
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