Smoking Up The Last Friday of July

Stoved some 5 drunken bros in 90 C for about 1 hour. Then added some GH - Kendal Kentucky and some cut fragments of Dark plug (mainly some dust and small debree not going into the last bowl full).

Hopefully this will ward off visitors.

Wish I had a pinch of perique left, ah well, some other time

Yesterday fall asleep at 11 something, today woke up at 3:30. I hate it when I do this.

After reading about Henrik's manipulations nuked white burley in the microwave for 45 seconds. Since I've added too much water, I let it sit for a few minutes and then nuked for 15 seconds more. The smell in the tin is not so interesting. There is some bread reminiscence on the background but mostly it's a sour note. With more resting the smell comes back to usual.

Smoking the result in a cob. Initial taste brought to memory often mentioned gym socks. Not just some socks but favorite. More specifically, burning favorite gym socks. That's a vile thing, let me tell you. After a few puffs fortunately all these shennanigans (is it correct usage?) are gone and the taste back to more normal. Looks like taste deepened a bit comparing to fresh white burley and the cigarish note, which reminds me of SG's Brown Twist, is muted a bit.

Did it make sense to nuke the tobacco? Cannot say. Next time I'll try to hold for minute and a half.

Good Friday everyone.

sweeten it with some rum or similar stuff ?

My rummified 5 bros certainly got a more earthy bready aroma. Reminded me alot of when I grew my own tobacco (virginia), and made pipe tobacco by taking the leaves that had hung for 4 months in a barn, quicky drying them in the oven at 110 C for 10 minutes, then breaking up the now delicate leaves into small flakes, adding water and some alcohol, putting it back into the oven for perhaps 20 minutes, depending on how much tobacco there was.

The result was very smokable, at least with the palate I had back then.

I finally have some rum (Baccardi?). I've added a few drops to a few pipefulls and will see what it will do.

I'm wondering how close air-cured Virginia to Burley. From what I've learned flue curing is essential in transforming starch to sugars.

Europe banned Peking Duck. This ominous product is not a threat anymore!! The global warming is stopped!!! Hurray.

(Amused and highly satisfied smoking 2 year old FVF in a bulldog and waiting for complete ban of bread and sparkling water, these horrifying sources of greenhouse gases)

OJK and Uhle's Perfection Plug on the menu today. I'm carrying my Whitehall and a KW Flame Grain Meershaum. Have a great day

and starting out with RG in a Sav. bulldog and French Roast coffee.
The lawn needs cutting after all the rain...hope it dries out.

I did this some time ago, not with a good result at all.

Might be that I nuked some Bracken Flake in the open on a plate in the oven, but hey, it was one of the strongest most revolting smokes I have ever had. Might be BF, might be a too high setting, dunno

Today it is something new, a new Refbjerg dublin, and some West Gate that also new to me, so lets see how this goes :-)

So, up early at 0400 EDT, took SWSL to work among the unanointed, and I had a Dr's appointment but he was inevitably delayed so the morning's free to do 'stuff' for others. I finally got a chance to smoke some gifted G-H dark flake in a Ben Wade 1/4 bent and stove perk real coffee, while reading the notes of my briar brothers and sister. All in all, a decent morning and entree in the afternoon.

up the post work week TGIF smokes. First out of the gate is Three Friars in a basket twin bore billiard, stinger withdrawn. I have never been particularly fond of this pipe and I do not expect that to change, but I must say that it is giving a much better smoke than I ever remember it giving.

Dan, congrats on the new toys. Henrik, congrats on your being Knighted. And the rest of you, congrats on ... err ... ah remembering this sites url.

Half and Half in a cherry. Traveling for work and hate to take a good pipe onsite.

a working vacation in my Aviation business as of Sunday morning through the following Sunday. I'll be in an exhibit building (not airconditioned) with our simulators and thousands of people for seven days. It's the start of the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) Annual convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Wittman Field becomes the busiest airport in the world for one week. Twelve-thousand planes will be parking on the field and a half-million people will attend, as usual.

It will be a "hot-mother-week" with only a little break now and then to smoke my pipe. But, it's good for business and enjoyable despite the discomfort and long hot days on my feet.

You guys will get a break from me and it will probably seem like a vacation for you. I hope you will miss me as much as you missed the "Beav". But, I won't hold my breath on that one.

Anyway, I'll continue to puff today on Captain Bob's and Two-Friends-Heritage. Before bedtime I will certainly have a bowl of Riverboat Gambler, too. Enjoy your day, gentlemen!

appreciate the vacation, but I hope you are off the hot tarmac.

I'll be a monkeys uncle. That sucky twin bore actually produced a decent smoke. Maybe it liked the blend or something or maybe I have been smoking crap-ola, but it all burnt right down to the bottom, fine gray ash et caetera, can't get rp po'ed, and didn't go hot or foul up. Maybe I should give a chance more than every 3 months or so.

APPEND: Enough surfing, and down below I go, taking the 3 Friars, my not so crappy twin-bore and the fishing pipe (guess I should just call it a shop pipe)and probably round ou the smoke with some NJS.

What the hell is NJS?

smoke today, some delightful Condor long cut in a Ben Wade 1/4 bent pipe. Dinner is over, the kitchen's wiped down, and the evening lays ahead like a verdant meadow, and I'm waiting for the celestial beings to frolic amid the wildflowers.

WTGQ!!!

nuff said

Some C&D HB in the new SV03 while watching an MST3K DVD.

EDIT: Alright, then. A translation:

Some Cornell & Diehl Haunted Bookshop in the new Stanwell Venturi 03 watching a Mystery Science Theater 3000 DVD. By the way, this is a great smoking pipe. I am always amazed on how well Stanwells do right out of the gate. Of course, HB is pretty forgiving, but the first bowl was dry, cool, and tasty.

And, of course, MST3K was hilarious.

but you should have known. National Joy Smoke.

I'm simply not dealing with posts that I can't understand any more. I really (honestly) is pissing me off something fierce and I figure such posts are just not worth my time or effort. Uh oh, this is how it started for me on ASP.

National Joy Smoke = Prince "By God" Albert. Nice one Chris, MHOTY (my hat's off to you)

1OldGI smoking 5Edges (5bros/Edgeworth RR) from a 7706C Kaywoodie

I hate writing that is rife with text-message speak. Ugh! However, I have no issue with someone abbreviating long noun groups, such as SG FVF. I guess that comes from years of aircraft technical writing.

You know, if the abbreviations are really "pissing [you] off," you probably should not have started the abbreviations thread that defines them and, at least indirectly, encourages their use.

The abbreviation thread was to clarify all the confusion. Sure we all know that "I'm smoking PA in a pre-WWII KW" means but does it really take so much extra effort to type it out. I mean, for goodness sake how lazy are we getting around here?

Threads that are ripe with codified messages simply make MPC more of an "us only club" where we all understand each other but newcomers tend to be overly confused. That was proved by in the abbreviation thread (go check out the responses).

I see it as a matter of courtesy vs laziness. Nothing more, nothing less.

Let there be abbreviations, but let ppl keep their abbreviation threads serious.

I have studied Avionics as well, and let mee tell you, nothing was more annoying than finding acronyms or abbsfsfwr that one could not look up

Perhaps I'm taking things too far ... I tend to do that. In many ways I tend to be extreme I guess. Henrik, perhaps you are the voice of reason in the midst of this insanity I've begun. I will listen to reason but I guess remain confused by many of the treads here. I'll also occasionally update that abbreviations thread to help myself and any others that may be suffering from the same level of confusion I often feel (even if they stay silent about it whereas I'm vocal).

I'll offer my two cents worth. I found it impossible to know what you guys were talking about. Even simple stuff that I now know like SGF. It was and is difficult to decifer.

I appreciated the code breakdown very much. And, I used it. But, leaving a post to go to he codification topic and search all those posts to find out what something meant took a long time. Therefore, I gave up on it.

If I see a post and don't understand the code, I now just skip past it and move on.

Therefore, as an active newcomer, I can understand the frustration and would really enjoy reading posts more if they did not have text codes. I did find myself following the example of using code, but I didn't enjoy it. Therefore, there will be no code in my posts.

For a new pipe smoker, these abbreviations are sheer hell. I remember trying to decipher what the heck you guys were smoking - so I could try it too. Not easy. The abbreviations section will really help. I guess - for me - abbreviations are an old fart thing. Don't much like them. Remind me of kids on cellphones. Just another thing to be grumpy about.