Exactly.
Were it not for pipe forums I'd be asking "McClelland who?".
Maybe some forget how they were when they knew 1/5th of bugger-all about pipes and tobacco.
Some just like to put others down to compensate for their own inadequacies.
A forum search or google does not always find the answer or one has to wade through a heap of irrelevant links when it would be far simpler to ask here.
Is that not what a pipe forum is for, to help each other out?
Before I found the internet and pipe forums I didn't have half a clue [now I'm a freakn expert!
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With hindsight at least I can laugh at what I didn't know.
I cured my own ignorance on the subject by asking some rather elementary questions. [Not sure if there's a cure for being a misery-guts]
Leroy, pay no attention to those who prefer to go to the effort of poking fun rather than simply answering the question.