I just did that! It arrived yesterday and I'm like WTF is this? HahahahahaThis makes it sound so noble and intellectual in in context....sometimes it's just late, and I'm drunk on ebay...
I just did that! It arrived yesterday and I'm like WTF is this? HahahahahaThis makes it sound so noble and intellectual in in context....sometimes it's just late, and I'm drunk on ebay...
This has been my quest. I am always trying to simplify by finding that one brand, or even one model that does exactly what I need. I have a couple three briars, a meer, a clay, and a few cobs. Even as slim as I am right now, having to choose between them in "rotation" kinda pisses me off. They all have benefits, but they also all kind of suck at certain things. Hence just buying/selling/trading/buying in hopes that I hit the jackpot and find "the ONE". I have gone through a pretty wide price spectrum and about the closest I've come is a standard MM Legend, or an off the shelf Dr. G. They can take a beating, are comfortable, smoke consistently, and can take a filter if things go pear shaped. Still, I can't help but think there is some pipe out there made for me.For me it has always been trying to find "The ONE". So I don't care for this pipe, try a different style, still not what I want, so I change it again. I don't buy more pipes just to have a rotation. I don't want a rotation, I like not having to choose. But I end up with so many, trying to perfect it.
In part, to participate in 'the old ways' and keep a part of culture alive. The whole sphere of pipe smoking is another of our fading cultural institutions. Tobacco cultivation and blending, and pipe design and crafting, are marvelous arts, unique human achievements. It's astounding how people can find the essences in natural things and bring them out in ways that never existed before. It's uplifting, humanizing.What other reasons do you have?
Many good reasons have been posted but I might add that my accountant wife has been confinced that upon resale they are a better investment than the stock market!Why so many pipes? I've asked myself, looking at the pipe shop in my study. I have more pipes on hand than the local Tinder Box at the mall before it closed. So here are some reasons why, after buying a reasonable dozen pipes, I kept buying more.
1. As a reward for doing other things in life that aren't rewarding, like doing the paperwork for taxes, balancing my check book, paying bills, etc.
2. On the basis that each new pipe bought with it a mystique that would slightly open up and change my life. Younger, I felt this way about new clothes, but not so much any more.
3. The idea that each pipe made life one notch better and cheered me up.
4. The idea that capturing pipes brought their culture and national differences into my life in an enriching way.
What other reasons do you have? Maybe, which of these don't you have?
Exactly! My two favorite pipes are my MM Legend, and my Dr. Grabow.This has been my quest. I am always trying to simplify by finding that one brand, or even one model that does exactly what I need. I have a couple three briars, a meer, a clay, and a few cobs. Even as slim as I am right now, having to choose between them in "rotation" kinda pisses me off. They all have benefits, but they also all kind of suck at certain things. Hence just buying/selling/trading/buying in hopes that I hit the jackpot and find "the ONE". I have gone through a pretty wide price spectrum and about the closest I've come is a standard MM Legend, or an off the shelf Dr. G. They can take a beating, are comfortable, smoke consistently, and can take a filter if things go pear shaped. Still, I can't help but think there is some pipe out there made for me.
I dunno.. maybe I need to buy another falcon and give that a go.. it's borderline insanity.
Btw, your username always reminds me of a part of a Longmire book, where they are telling the new guys what to do after a helicopter lands in enemy territory during Vietnam.Exactly! My two favorite pipes are my MM Legend, and my Dr. Grabow.
I love the movie "The deer hunter". And the Simpsons did a great rendition of that roulette clip as well! HahahaBtw, your username always reminds me of a part of a Longmire book, where they are telling the new guys what to do after a helicopter lands in enemy territory during Vietnam.