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Posted on: Sat, 09/27/2008 - 14:44
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Hi!
Well, after looking over everyone's shoulder for a while, I've decided to join this forum. Thanks for letting me on board!
I realized this morning that I really do need to be on a forum after a very minor, and not unpleasant, incident: I was hanging out in front of my favorite local coffee house. Almost every morning, this is where I have my first (or second) pipe of the day, but today I didn't have the time for it. Now I've been smoking at a table in front of this coffee house for four years and have always been the only pipe smoker present (despite the town's tobacconist being directly across the street). But this morning, there was this _very_ old man sitting there with a pipe in his teeth! So I went over and chatted with him. He showed off his prized pipe to me, a battered, old HIS. I don't know this brand, but it seems to be a "basket pipe" sort of deal. The gentleman was very pleased with this pipe: "I've had this one nearly three years, and it hasn't worn out yet!" he proclaimed to me. He proceded to fill it with some very sweet drugstore tobacco (I'm about 90% sure Capt. Black--that smell is pretty distinctive) and lit up. He went on, telling me about how he always made sure to clean the bowl out thoroughly every day--my guess is that he gets about 10% of his smoke straight from the burning wood of the bowl.
This gentleman's approach to pipe smoking is utterly different from my own, with my hand-carved imported pipes, carefully maintained with precisely reamed and cultivated cakes, filled with boutique tobaccos. But I bet he enjoys his smokes every bit as much as I do mine. Good for him! I'm very pleased to engage in an activity that has no purpose but pleasure and that can give that pleasure in so wide a range of ways.
So why join a forum? Well, I tried telling my wife, as we drove away, about my observation. Of course she nodded and smiled, but I'm confident that she didn't actually care. And my dog (who was also with me at the time) was similarly uniterested in my pontificating. So that leaves you nice folks. :)
Cheers!
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Almost ever pipe smoker ive walked up on has been a drug store smoker. One i met slung his pipe with a thumb over the the ashes, to drain it of moister.I can see the woman being uninterested, but the dog should be put down.
decided to saddle us poor blokes with your ramblings.
I really do not think that that practice is a rarity. When my uncle smoked a pipe his entire rotation was about 3 or 4, once they were cooled off he considered them ready for more. I also do not remember my grandfather having many either, maybe a few but I can only remember a black billiard kind of rough or maybe blasted. I can't imagine cleaning the bowl every day though.
Fume in pace, ckr
Welcome mister Laserboy
First of, I love that nick ;-)
Secondly, it is great to see someone else online who fully realizes that this hobby is about enjoying yourself. the old adage "smoke what you like, like what you smoke" is known by most, but few seem to know what the implications of that are. You have, so in my book you're off to a great start on this little forum with rather like minded knaves.
And you're right, even though I can only speak for myself, I do think I speak for all of us (heh) when I say that we're all looking forward to your future contributions here.
Cheers!
Corneel Vermeulen
Pipe Lore
as you probably already know, we have a good time here and are mostly tolerant of one another. Hope you enjoy it with us.
"If you can't send money, send tobacco." -George Washington to the Continental Congress, 1776
Good to have you. As you've probably already noticed, there's a lot of pontificating here and good friends who are more than willing to listen. Fire at will. I see we have a mutual friend, Mr. Joseph Krantz. We're gonna get along just fine.
"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
You have joined a real nice bunch of guys. I probably have irritated them at times with my own pontificating. But, they have always been very friendly and respectful. Most of all, I just appreciate them putting up with me. They don't seem to mind my smoke.
Appleton, Wisconsin USA
Captain Bob's Blend: www.cornellanddiehl....
ive been her only 4 days and been made felt very welcomed, im sure you will too. welcome aboard
Welcome
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"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth" -- Albert Einstein
Glad you've boarded the good ship MPC! A neat site with great guys from accross the globe.
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Good to have you here, hope you will be regular poster.
Jim
Look forward to your future posts.
MPC is really smokin' (pun intended). Great people and great conversation.
If it can't cut, it's a pipe!
it seems I am late to the welcome wagon this time, but welcome nonetheless. To me, what you described is one of the things that I love about pipe smoking...the sort of instant camaraderie that comes with a mutual interest...such that you can walk up to a complete stranger and have a conversation...try doing that about the fact that you are both drinking coffee...well...the results just wouldn't be the same...haha
at any rate...it looks like you'll fit in just fine around here...so...welcome again and post often!
Cheers,
Josh
"Hi there, I see you're drinking some coffee. Interesting. What blend? Do you drink coffee often? How do you drink it?" .. Yeah I can see how that would get old pretty quickly.
Welcome to the site!
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I hope that you find this forum a most interesting roadside attraction on the grand Cyberhighway.
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and welcome
If I have not seen as far as others, it's because giants have been standing on my shoulders.
Second, I could not agree more with what Corneel stated. What a terrible place the world would be if everyone had the same tastes.
For one thing, who would we poke fun at. :-)
"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 Laser Boy and all newbies I have missed in the interim.
BTW Cap'n Bob you are surely one of the characters that make MPC a great place to hang out. I enjoy all your ramblings and I have been known to ramble from time to time (maybe not on here yet though, but maybe yes).
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"Hi there, I see you're drinking some coffee. Interesting. What blend? Do you drink coffee often? How do you drink it?" .. Yeah I can see how that would get old pretty quickly.
Welcome to the site!
If coffee drinkers were in the minority and there was a majority of anti-non-coffee drinkers with a powerful political lobby and agenda presumably backed by the Surgeon General, you would have a situation similar to us pipe smokers. We'd gather in a dark alley behind a coffee bar and say whatcha drinkin? Dark or Light roast? Flavored or unflavored? If you show me yours, I'll show you mine! Do you want to hold mine? Do you want to taste it? Put it in your mouth? And, so on...
Hey... what are you dirty pipe smoker's thinking here... I'm talkin about pipe smokers and coffe drinkers. You should be ashamed of yourself!
Appleton, Wisconsin USA
Captain Bob's Blend: www.cornellanddiehl....
At least we are not missing the essence of living even if we're only living as a lot of jittery wide-eyed wheezing old farts.
Without all the nicotine and caffeine we will probably only be a bunch of old farts :)
If it can't cut, it's a pipe!
"Post Of The Month"!!
At least we are not missing the essence of living even if we're only living as a lot of jittery wide-eyed wheezing old farts.
Without all the nicotine and caffeine we will probably only be a bunch of old farts :)
"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
"Hi there, I see you're drinking some coffee. Interesting. What blend? Do you drink coffee often? How do you drink it?" .. Yeah I can see how that would get old pretty quickly.
Welcome to the site!
If coffee drinkers were in the minority and there was a majority of anti-non-coffee drinkers with a powerful political lobby and agenda presumably backed by the Surgeon General, you would have a situation similar to us pipe smokers. We'd gather in a dark alley behind a coffee bar and say whatcha drinkin? Dark or Light roast? Flavored or unflavored? If you show me yours, I'll show you mine! Do you want to hold mine? Do you want to taste it? Put it in your mouth? And, so on...
Hey... what are you dirty pipe smoker's thinking here... I'm talkin about pipe smokers and coffe drinkers. You should be ashamed of yourself!
And if it was in Jersey, it Could take place in rest stops, where you may run into a Governor.