Beautiful stick! Did you like Maurice Andre (trumpet)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alligator Gar
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Beautiful stick! Did you like Maurice Andre (trumpet)?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alligator Gar
Almost finished smoking Chatham Manor in a black 1997 Brebbia Jubilee 925 silver banded grain sandblast briar calabash.
H&H Cerberus in a billiard
Nicely bundled on the front porch starting the last bowl of the night.
2015 Dunhill Nightcap (appropriate) in an early 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard.
The one I keep sitting in front of all the rest is always filled with RY> one of these days I need to take them all out of the cabinet and see what is in the back, on the bottom.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
On the road with Flying Dutchman Match in a slight bend black sandblasted Lorenzo Elba Imperia 8636 with an amber colored acrylic stem.
NeverBend Did you like Maurice Andre (trumpet)?
That was an amazing clip. He wasn't playing the notes so much as thinking them into my head.
Dunhill Aperitif in a Malaga Second.
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Rough night out here on the ranch but we made it and all heads are accounted for.
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Scotch Flake Aromatic in a 1987 Capitello Jonico I taper billiard.
(Last night) Celebrated the end of a frustrating work week with some Ashton Winding Road and then some HH Old Dark Fired.
Oh wait, I have to work a bit today too.
Oh well, I celebrate again after I'm done! :D
Was last night, but a bowl of Dunhill Nightcap in a Stanwell Specialty 172. Overall it was a nice smoke, and I can see my self keeping it in rotation, but was a bit let down given the amount of praise I read online.
Just started a bowl of P&C Southern Comfort (Sutliff Kentucky Blend).Thx @BryGuySC ! This is turning into a really Great weekend !
Last of Christmas Cheer and Sixpence mixed together in a MM Great Dane. I call it Six Cheerleaders for Christmas.
Pictures or it didn't happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
"'Vegetarian' is an old Indian word for "bad hunter". Andy Rooney.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverBend
Just another couple of bowls of BBF and another container gone. :thumb: My program of clearing out the chaff goes on apace.
There is a new plague in TV commercials, probably the product of music education being virtually eliminated in high schools nationwide. (Who needs music when you have ridiculously expensive sports programs to entertain the parents, eh?) Few people now know anything about playing a musical instrument, a situation that extends into popular music, and it is reflected in TV commercials I think. Ad after ad has these plinky little repeated phrases as background to the 5 minutes of warning about a drug guaranteed to smooth your skin while it eats out your liver, or some mindless computer generated rhythm section, available on that Sony electric keyboard at your local online dealer for $79.50, free shipping. What I find revealing about these "musical" fillers is that they are precisely the same sorts of noise generated by beginners as they practice their exercises, or the sort of cacophony emanating from the basement when your teenage son invites his friends over to jam. It is the sound that George Bernard Shaw was thinking of when he said, "Hell is full of amateur musicians." Few have experience with the boredom of such exercises, so that listening to beginner noises as music doesn't trigger suicidal urges as it does with me. The biggest danger of many drugs, even in light of the extensive list of terrifying side effects, is mass psychological trauma of musicians exposed to their commercials.
Nothing but a walk today, despite the sun. Cold.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alligator Gar
Jim,
Lol!
If you're relying on me for pictures or it didn't happen then I'm about as real as a unicorn!
I take them but it's impossible to get them posted without building a space shuttle.
Popped open a tin of Peterson's Perfect Plug, took a long look at that solid brick of tobacco and decided I wasn't feeling that ambitious. Closed the tin and took the lazy way. Loaded a 20th anniversary, deeply rusticated, straight stem Ascorti Business tomato that I haven't smoked in several years with HOTW. The plug will wait for another day.
Nice to get those boys back in the rotation. I've been doing this and I need to because I'm shipping off 13 pipes to Rich Lewis for treatment and feel inadequately staffed. Maybe I should buy another Barling? Nah, I'd better get two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pugsley
just finishing
2015 Gawith Hoggarth Scotch flake Aromatic in a 1961 Barling's Make #5179 smooth saddle billiard.
@freestoke , did you give Maurice Andre a listen and if so your thoughts? I think I'll dial up some Hayden as interpreted by the Frenchman.
Almost finished smoking Flying Dutchman Match in a slight bend black sandblasted Lorenzo Elba Imperia 8636 with an amber colored acrylic stem.
2015 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake in a 1982 Ser Jacopo Gemma Rubino canadian.
Ah, there it is. I've missed your rants in the 'what did you smoke today' threads. Music... manners... grammar and prose... it's been a while since I've heard a good rant. I detest all commercials so I'm quick on the mute button in the rare event I find myself in front of the idiot box. I especially hate radio commercials with their idiotic little skits featuring one prole gloriously reciting the majestic qualities of some (lackluster, Chinese-made) product to another sycophantic sap. It makes me ill, so I don't listen to media all that much. I consider myself fortunate that I am not familiar with the plinky tunes to which you refer.Quote:
Originally Posted by freestoke
Drying out a small pile of Glengarry Flake cubes. Might get to it today, might not.
Earlier, it was St. James Plug. Now, it's Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem.
Acadian Perique in a 1999 smooth dark brown full bend Tim West ball. Not much left of this blend now.
Hearth & Home Ten to Midnight in a Hickok straight bulldog
Dang-it Christopher!:crazy: I dug thru my stash and also came up with "Ten to Midnight" to begin my evening smokes; I definitely had a specific craving for this tobacco this evening.:piper: I am topping off this smoke with an ice cold mug of "Kirin Ichiban" brew and I am having fun with my smoke, brew, and laptop.:beerchug:Quote:
Originally Posted by cpmcdill
I'm enjoying a bowl of Q, also known as Balkan Sasieni in a MM Diplo. This was my favorite of the blind bomb ordeal and it is quite a generous portion of tobacco. Which is good, as it suits me quite well.
A few minutes away from smoking Lane HG-2000 in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer.
Model Match in the first pipe Trever Talbot made when he went to France many years ago. It's a smooth straight Algerian briar Billiard bowl with a long Canadian stem, unbranded. Have enough left for about two more bowls.
Ending my day with some Carter Hall in a MM Legend from my latest grab bag of smokeable seconds. Burley in a cob, one of life's simple pleasures, a $3 pipe and less than a nickel's worth of tobacco.
Watch City Jolly Bastard in a 2015 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend tomato military mount with an aluminum accent, horn ferrule, and cumberland p-lip stem.
Good Morning!
Crops needed tending so I'm at 'em.
2014 Balkan Sasieni in a 1987 Ser Jacopo R1 Maxima canadian.
Bell's Three Nuns in a smooth rhodesian
2014 Balkan Sasieni in a 1981 Mastro de Paja 1C sandblast lovat.
Just finished smoking Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1982 black sandblasted paneled slight bend Savinelli flat bottom sitter. Next is Old Colonial in a medium bend beater 1979 Aalborg natural freehand made by Nording.
Carter Hall in a MM Diplomat with a Regal Saddle green swirl 3 in. straight Forever stem.
Sam Gawith Brown Sugar Flake in a mid-1970s black rusticated straight Savinelli Estella 915 KS billiard.
Another bowl of Borkum Riff Cherry Liquor in an old cob.
3/4 of the way through this bowl of Sergeant Miller’s Inker’s Mixture in a 1979 Ascorti Business KS Oom Paul with a black pearl acrylic stem.
Solani 633 VaPer in a 2003 smooth medium bent straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin.
A few minutes away from smoking McClelland A.M. Pipe in a 2003 Ural full bend egg shaped Lattice meer.