With Whom Would You Smoke?
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Beetlejuice would be interesting. Need to see that one. Bill Murray would be another. He looks rather pissed all the time.
Simple questions get derailed so often here now. This is fast becoming a chore just to slog through responses from bitter adults acting like children... This used to be an interesting place.
Anyway, my answer would be my Grandfather on my Mother's side. He died when I was around 5.
Anyway, my answer would be my Grandfather on my Mother's side. He died when I was around 5.
I just finished a book by horror writer, Harlan Ellison. I didn't know until finished that he was a pipe smoker. Quite an interesting individual and such a creative writer.
Born in 1934, he was not only successful in his own writings but worked and contributed to such classics as "The Twilight Zone" and the original "Star Trek." While he never touched drugs or alcohol, it was said that he was very bold and had a huge ego and was tough for many to work with. Ellison died just a few years ago in 2018.
While I have already listed a "person with whom I'd like to smoke", after reading his book, I think he would be a hoot to chat with.
Born in 1934, he was not only successful in his own writings but worked and contributed to such classics as "The Twilight Zone" and the original "Star Trek." While he never touched drugs or alcohol, it was said that he was very bold and had a huge ego and was tough for many to work with. Ellison died just a few years ago in 2018.
While I have already listed a "person with whom I'd like to smoke", after reading his book, I think he would be a hoot to chat with.
I'm unsure if that's a Dunhill, but it is a fact that he smoked Britwoods, particularly Comoys, so a Dunhill would make sense. I read an article posted on this forum somewhere about how he would give away his Comoy pipes to friends after a year or so of regularly smoking and just buy more for the next year. It certainly beats the heck out of cleaning 'em.
Angus McDonald. One of the formal Pipe Major of the Scots Guards. If you listen to some of his recordings, you can hear his foot tapping. Seems like a fine gent while he was alive.
St. Pius X - Cigar smoker and major figure in European history leading up to the World War 1
My first and foremost choice would be JRR Tolkien. Then CS Lewis, Percy Fawcett, Ernest Shackleton, Tom Crean, David Stirling.
I have met enough celebrities that I have no desire to go back in time to meet people whom are celebrities of their era. They are just people. People who would probably ask me a bunch of stupid questions making me remove my pipe from my clench. I'm not a fan... of humans in general. 
Vincent van Gogh. He was a pipe smoker through and through and saw the world in a completely unique way. I can't imagine myself being able to hold a coversation with a mind like that, but I would love to puff and listen to his musings as he waxed on about art and colour and the world through his eyes, as be too puffed away.
God ya know it's a question you never think about until you get asked it.
Who'd Id sit down for a pipe session with?
Oh man, gonna say General MacArthur is up there. I saw the general getting some flack in some of the other forum discussions. I will say that the General was far from perfect, but the man saw through a war with less than what we had built up in the European Theater and still came out on top.
Obviously, he was requested to retreat but his famous words "I shall return" kept the Phillipines alive with resistance, guerilla warfare, and kept us going through a very dark time.
He operated the Pacific theater from Australia and planned out tactic after tactic from "hittem where they ain't" to island hopping to get to the Phillipines faster. Obviously he had the help of our allies too and even Japanese Nisei spies that infiltrated the Filipino traitors and Japanese undercover agents and even help places of authority within Japanese empire while working as double agents.
Ultimately, the man had the men and means to overcome the gap of equipment and supplies. Secret operation were held including air fight to snuff out the Nefarious and twisted General Yamato, the guy who planned pearl harbor (also a Harvard student before the war). He was secretly off'd him thanks the men working under General MacArthur.
How history views MacArthur is debatable, but believe it or not, I think more people should give him credit because he did a lot to get the Phillipines back.
Look up the book: MacArthur's undercover war, a lot of his exploited that we're not normally discussed are taken from account from the men who served under him.
Who'd Id sit down for a pipe session with?
Oh man, gonna say General MacArthur is up there. I saw the general getting some flack in some of the other forum discussions. I will say that the General was far from perfect, but the man saw through a war with less than what we had built up in the European Theater and still came out on top.
Obviously, he was requested to retreat but his famous words "I shall return" kept the Phillipines alive with resistance, guerilla warfare, and kept us going through a very dark time.
He operated the Pacific theater from Australia and planned out tactic after tactic from "hittem where they ain't" to island hopping to get to the Phillipines faster. Obviously he had the help of our allies too and even Japanese Nisei spies that infiltrated the Filipino traitors and Japanese undercover agents and even help places of authority within Japanese empire while working as double agents.
Ultimately, the man had the men and means to overcome the gap of equipment and supplies. Secret operation were held including air fight to snuff out the Nefarious and twisted General Yamato, the guy who planned pearl harbor (also a Harvard student before the war). He was secretly off'd him thanks the men working under General MacArthur.
How history views MacArthur is debatable, but believe it or not, I think more people should give him credit because he did a lot to get the Phillipines back.
Look up the book: MacArthur's undercover war, a lot of his exploited that we're not normally discussed are taken from account from the men who served under him.
