Greetings from Oregon
Posted on: Sun, 08/10/2008 - 14:49
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Greetings from Oregon
Nice place you folks have here. I have spent the majority of my adult working life in the timber industry. A number of years ago I saw the handwriting on the wall and knew I was about out of a job so I went back to school and got a bit of training in Civil Engineering. I have been working for the Oregon Department of Transportation for the past 11 years and so far, so good.
I have lived my entire life as a “webfoot” and never saw a reason to change this. My father was a dedicated Kaywoodie / Half-and-Half smoker and I picked up on the hobby from him. I have been a pipe smoker for some 35 years and am still learning something new all the time. My pipe rotation includes Kaywoodie, Peterson, GBD, and a bunch of odds and ends in between. I do like the old burley blends with PA and ERR’d among the favorites but have grown very fond of Virginia, English, and Balkan blends as well. (I will freely admit to really enjoying the smell of a freshly opened tin of McClelland Virginia.)
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"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
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Think you'll find this a good place to be. It's quite an intimate but zany bunch of buddies. No holds barred. But burleys rule it seems.
Welcome, D.B. Cooper.
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Hope you enjoy it here...nice to have another "webfoot" on board...and one who has been in the Timber Industry too...
Anyway...have fun and post often...it sounds like you will fit in just fine around here...
Cheers,
Josh
well at least you smoke VAs too. All is not lost.
Relax, I'm just busting on the other burleyaholics through you.
Anyway - you're sure welcome here.
Rick Piatt
well at least you smoke VAs too. All is not lost.
Relax, I'm just busting on the other burleyaholics through you.
Anyway - you're sure welcome here.
I have tried very few tobaccos that I thought were out and out BAD. Most are good, just some are better.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
Welcome, D.B. Cooper.
I am one of the few folks I know that actually hopes he survived the ordeal and got away with it. He was an original.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
I have tried very few tobaccos that I thought were out and out BAD.
yep, he's a Slut.
Fume in pace, ckr
After carefull consideration.......yep.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
Hope you enjoy it here...nice to have another "webfoot" on board...and one who has been in the Timber Industry too...
Anyway...have fun and post often...it sounds like you will fit in just fine around here...
Cheers,
Josh
So what part of this rain forest are you from Josh?
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
Please take your seat and fasten your seat belt (so you can't attack the beautiful Flight Attendants) and please honor the "smoking" sign as MPC Airlines is a "Smoking Airline". The only thing we don't allow here is the "Stinky Weed" unless, of course, you are using it for medicinal purposes. However, we ask that you mix a little "Codger Burley" with it to be less offensive.
Appleton, Wisconsin USA
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I ran plumb out of the "stinky weed" better than 30 years ago. (Or were you talking about Latakia?)
Thanks for the welcome everyone.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
from the opposite side of the U.S. I'm a New England born yankee who smokes loads of burley but also have Virginias hidden out of view.
"If you can't send money, send tobacco." -George Washington to the Continental Congress, 1776
I am currently in my last year of architecture at the U of O, but I am originally from the Roseburg area. But, it has been a while since I have been in Oregon...I have been abroad for the last year, and am finishing up with an internship in San Francisco before heading back for school. So, in short...come September, I will be in Eugene, but I am from Roseburg.
where in the Willamette are you from?...I think our little valley is near as large as some of the states in which others of this forum live.
Cheers,
Josh
Great to see another GFO guy coming on board. Welcome.
"Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?" T.S. Eliot
I am currently in my last year of architecture at the U of O, but I am originally from the Roseburg area. But, it has been a while since I have been in Oregon...I have been abroad for the last year, and am finishing up with an internship in San Francisco before heading back for school. So, in short...come September, I will be in Eugene, but I am from Roseburg.
where in the Willamette are you from?...I think our little valley is near as large as some of the states in which others of this forum live.
Cheers,
Josh
But originally from Klamath Falls. (Which, as many don't know, has no falls anywhere.)
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
Great to see another GFO guy coming on board. Welcome.
Great place and great people but sometimes you need to go someplace where a thread stays on topic for at least a page.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
I was born in Bend, but now live in Albuquerque.
Chris.
I'm glad to see that you dropped in. I think that you'll find this site has the quirkiness of GFO with a genuine dedication to pipes and tobacco.
For those who don't know our newest visitant, Jim is most knowledgeable in the ways of the burley leaf, like ERRd, and the Custombilt, the mature smoker's answer to the Hudson automobile. Both fine inventions crafted to provide a pleasant journey to the user.
"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet. " Gerard Manley Hopkins
Glad you could make your way here.
I ran plumb out of the "stinky weed" better than 30 years ago. (Or were you talking about Latakia?)
Thanks for the welcome everyone.
Latakia do stink, smells alot like f...
If I have not seen as far as others, it's because giants have been standing on my shoulders.
to say welcome. Hope you will enjoy your visits
If I have not seen as far as others, it's because giants have been standing on my shoulders.
Ya found a great site here! Glad to have you aboard!!
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Chris, I don't know how long ince you have been back to Bend but if any length of time at all, you would not know the place.
Bob, you give me to much credit. But I do admit to being a sucker for an old Kaywoodie or Custombilt. I am starting to appreciate the old Webers and Ehrlichs as well. An old classic American burley in an American made briar from the 40's or 50's......I have seldom had a smoke that will beat it.
To all of you I say thanks again for the grand welcome.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
(Attributed to Oscar Wilde's Cleaning lady when she testified at his trial.)
Jim
Welcome Highstump! Its great to see you here! These guys are a really nice bunch. We are fortunate to have found them.