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I've never smoked a hookah – wonder if anyone on the forum has. I hate it when my pipe gurgles and a hookah is the worst-ever for that, I would think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lostmason
P. S. – Sometimes I think they run this forum with a 486 and a 2400 baud modem.
Now smoking MacBaren Virginia #1 in a late '90s half smooth/half etched freehand sitter, medium bend Nielsen Viggo. Think I'll shoot the sun's eye out!
I know there's at least a couple hookah smokers on here. Can't remember who tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
I would never smoke one. The whole apparatus looks too much like some elaborate bong to me. ...either a bong or the ultimate Rube Goldberg smoking contraption. That and the hoses and mouthpieces and all that just gross me out. It's enough to keep the airway in a pipe clean, and I see what gunk I get out of it after just one smoke. Imagine what filth must be hiding in those hoses :( :doublepuke: Not to mention, I generally lean toward non-aromatic or minimally flavored tobacco. Molasses soaked, fruity, berry, bananna-gummybear surprise shisha tobacco sounds kind of nasty to me.
Burning some G&H Brown Irish X in a Savinelli
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Amazing the difference a pairing makes...
Tried pairing the Irish X with an Atwater Vanilla Java porter. Nasty. Neither the beer nor the tobacco were doing each other any favors whatsoever. Put the beer back in the fridge for later and poured some strong coffee with a little cream and sliced off a piece of earthy, creamy cheese made by a local farmer.
What a difference.
This tobacco is earthy like a cigar, peppery but not overly so, and only slightly sweet. Lakeland essence in this one is so faint that I wonder if I'm just imagining it simply because this is a G&H blend and I know it's usually there. Both the coffee and the cheese compliment the baccy well and the cheese brings out a creaminess in the tobac that I didn't notice before. The earthiness in the cheese and also in the smoke go very well together. I'm going to put my feet up and enjoy the rest of the bowl... may need another slice of cheese or two :)
Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1980s black sandblasted slight bend Savory’s Argyll 281 Cherrywood with a black vulcanite stem.
Voodoo Queen in a MM Pride .
Now smoking Dunbar in a post WW2 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 Bulldog with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem. Listening to Vin Scully.
My son has a hooka and he is into those e-thingies also. I like my traditional pips.Screwed up today and loaded my Swiss BBk
with the wrong blend.:( So i'm smoking Virginia Gold Black and Gold,with CB original loaded in my chataux (spelling sucks but I try).
My mother was raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin,when we moved to Oklahoma it took almostQuote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
a year before they convinced her that that yellow stuff WAS cheddar !:thud:
They've yet to convince me. Cheddar is WHITE dammit! Whatever that garbage Kraft sells sure isn't real cheddar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lostmason
Now smoking St. Basil’s Golden Brown in an early smooth Radice Tiger Eye G medium bend pipe with a bamboo-style carving on the shank with a black acrylic stem. Ice tea and bergs is my drink.
Now smoking MacBaren Symphony in a mid-70s slight bend black sandblasted English Rustic 120 billiard with a black vulcanite stem. Any hotter and I think the house would melt.
Peter Heinrichs Curly Block in a straight black sandblasted 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog with a black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is not only my evening drink, but good hydration in this weather.
long hot day so I'm on the porch doing a bowl of Peter Stokkebye Amsterdam, smoky stuff.
So have you tried that GunK in a crock that Cracker Barrel puts out.May have been the batch I got a few years back,it had no flavor at all,Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
and was dry and crumbly.:sick:
Finishing the Day with Old Companion in my DG Savoy.
Hearth & Home Porch Swing in a Canterbury lovat
Now smoking Jim’s B Blend in a 2016 PSF POY quarter bend black sandblasted Vermont Freehand egg with an aluminum band and amber tortoise saddle stem.
C&D Mixture Monster 3 in a 1979 no name French briar smooth full bend egg.
Savinelli 140˚ in a 1978 smooth three quarter bend Danish Special with a black vulcanite stem.
I've been to a couple hookah bars and have smoked it more than a handful of times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
The flavors are excellent. There are some amazing profiles that you can only get from hookah. There is no gurgle at all, the smoke is cooled through the water, but has 0 effect on the draw or the mouthfeel. It makes for the coolest smoke I've ever had, and eliminates all and any tongue bite.
I see no link to bongs or drugs with it, because I've never met someone that uses it for such a thing.
The only downside, and really the reason I don't own one probably, is because of the fact that you have to inhale the smoke. The only way to really enjoy it is through deep, lung, inhalation. I'm just not cool with that being an ex cigarette smoker.
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A few minutes away from smoking HU China’s Heaven in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic stem. Working and listening to the MLB talk on the XM.
Just finished work and this bowl of P&W Nut Brown Burley in a 1984 medium bend black grain etched Savinelli Non Pareil 9310 poker with a horn ferrule and a black vulcanite stem.
Peter Heinrichs Chateau Henri No. 8 in a smooth medium bend post-WW2 Pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock Killarney 9BC with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite stem.
Heine's Blend in the third pipe I ever bought ($1.95), a 1974 smooth straight French briar Hadley Apple with a black vulcanite stem.
Smoking Solani 656 Aged Burley Flake. And regretting the years that passed while I was unaware of this marvelous tobacco.
Dunhill Flake in a smooth straight Irish Second
Now smoking Stonehaven in a 1998 smooth medium bend Peterson Limerick 69 with a nickel band with a black vulcanite p-lip stem. A bottle of Sprite is my drink. Watching the Braves-Nats game while I wait for Vin Scully at 4:10 EST.
Just finished smoking Jim's Half Va., Half Burley with dark fired Kentucky in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, black ebonite stem with an aluminum band. Listening to Vin Scully on the XM.
Now smoking 2003 GLP Charing Cross in a 2002 Ser Jacopo Delecta Fatta A Mano R1 sandblast Rhodesian with a smooth extension at the shank with a black acrylic stem. Have enough for about three more bowls.
Having some Rattray's Hal o the Wynd in a cob.
Trying out a few different things this fine p.m.
G&H London Cabbie, a sample from a friend who smuggled it back from London. A nice VA-Per with some Lakeland flavor in there Nothing to risk incarceration over.
Tewksbury Celtic Blend, part of a mini cluster bomb from our friend @Aguineapig . Very nice slightly sweetened English.
Some of my most recent pressed flake - a tobacco salad containing cigar scraps, Tobias' surprise (from our friend @Tobias Lutz ), fire-cured dark air, and latakia, among other things. Flavor's not bad, and it's pretty strong - I could dual market this as a laxative :)
Continuing this afternoon's odyssey with a bowl of Special K :) This is C&D VA Bright "chip cut." I've not seen this type of cut before and it looks exactly like Special K.
It was part of a bomb from @Aguineapig . Flavor's excellent - I dig natural VAs. Vitamin N is mild to medium.
Trying some McClelland Balkan Blue in my Savinelli 114KS.
This is my first time smoking this one. So far, so good. Nice sweet English blend.
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MacBaren Virginia #1 in a late '90s half smooth/half etched freehand sitter, medium bend Nielsen Viggo.
Just finished smoking McClelland 2000 in a 1980 Stanwell 668 medium bend half black sandblasted, half brown smooth rough top with a multi-colored dark yellowish ferrule and black vulcanite stem.
Vincent Manil Semois, a small musketball in an old Grabow Royal Duke.
Read the reviews afterwards and I don't see where they're coming from. It tasted mainly chocolaty to me.
About a third of the way through this bowl of St. James Flake in a 1986 three quarter bend Bacchus face CAO meer. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
@JimInks ,you should appreciate this one.A few minutes ago while diligently typing
a well reasoned response,total BS in laymans terms,My wifes cat,Clown, decided
she needed to cross over me to get to the food dish.I now have about twenty
gashes down my knee because that stupid cat is a klutz and can't jump for s**t !
I need consoling,so I found my stash of Germains Plum Cake and my 1950's moterey.
A nameless aromatic (P&C's "Best of the Rest") in a Grabow Savoy. Got this several years ago, and let it rest all this time. It was cacophanous at first, but it has settled into something pretty decent.
GL Pease Maltese Falcon in a Canterbury lovat
St. Basil’s Rasputin in a 1982 smooth straight Sasieni Ivory 105 Apple with a black vulcanite stem.
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I know the feeling. Suzy and Molly always want to use me for a race track or a place to jump on and off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lostmason