Yesterday, I lost my mentor.

Kaiser83 departed for another location (as will I in a few days) and with his departure I have lost my pipe smoking mentor. This loss is tragic! I felt it first last night at shift change, when we would usually greet eachother (we are on opposite shifts) and share a smoke while discussing pipe smoking issues.

Darrell left me with a corn cob pipe, half a tin of Frog Morton (the best stuff in the world!), a tin of Evening Rise, five tins of Erinmore flake and five tins of Erinmore ribboncut (?), and a tin of Dunhill Nightcap, as well as a few accessories to assist in my smoking. He is a true gentleman.

Please forgive me if I now direct my stupid questions and irrelevant opinions at the lot of you. Darrell was your filter. You will soon learn what you had...

The Refined Ruffian,
Sean

Dude! You do NOT post from a war zone under the title "Tragic Loss".



You made me think one of your pipes had gotten shot.

Hey Sean,

Sorry about the loss of your mentor. But as you seem to have considerable enthusiasm for the art of piping, you should know that there are many on the Board who would be delighted to step in and attempt to fill kaiser's place and who will attempt to respond to your delight. No question is stupid. We were all n00bs, and smoking a pipe is far more complex, and wondrously so for that, than puffing on a cigarette or cigar.

Welcome to Wonderland!

Effin Madison Countians.

Post a question, and we shall answer.

Sometimes, one of us might even be right!

Yeah I kind of had an "...oh...sh*t..." moment when I read that title.

Don't do that to us, and we'll promise not to lead you to cheap Grabow pipes and tins of dried out Half & Half.

Good morning you sexy mofo!!! (I know he can't see this until morning lol, this would be the typical greeting) Dude I am still just a shout away on here or in email. Of course you know this since you are sending me your PAD pics to convert in servimg and send back in a link you can post lol. I tried to leave you pretty well off until you can get to your site, and I agree Froggy is the shiznittle. If it helps you any although I now have a decent chow hall, the latrines are as crappy, but the guys here are a bit on the....uh....young side in their mentality, which leaves a lot to be desired when discussing politics and the reasons we are here to begin with. The idscussions here are ways in which to use a head lamp to look like Iron Man....which leaves me slapping my head and yearning for an intelligent being somewhere in the galaxy to beam me up.

So as Sean will be on here even more gentlemen, so to will I, more so to indulge in a fill of intelligent discussion amongst friends. Thank you in advance, and Sean I am enjoying my Nude Meerschaum and a bowl of Froggy On The Town as I type this brother, just for you.

Those changes are a lot of the fun of this forum brother. I am currently deep into the Habadashery section and reading. I figure in about a month or so I will have read all the threads on here....maybe lol.

Sean,
I was preparing a speech to comfort you in the death of a loved one, a serious injury, a lost pipe, a lost job, a divorce, anything but this. Don't you EVER scare me like that.
In other news brother let me tell you. I started smoking a pipe about a half a year before I joined this forum, I knew how to pack 'em, I knew how to light 'em, and I knew how to smoke 'em. The only problem is that I was smoking outta a metal lined plastic "Sanda" pipe you can get off of Ebay for 5 bucks, and smoking Admiral "Pipe" tobacco out of it. Than I wised up and bought a Dr. Grabow and some Borkum Riff. There started my PAD and TAD. I joined here, and asked more questions than a toddler learning how to talk. If these fine brotherly fellows didn't hate me by the end of my questions, I don't know what patience is. You ask away questions, and you'll get the better answers than you can imagine. This place has been more help to me than any person. I do envy you that you had a Mentor that lived near you, that's awesome! But you ask away brother. George Kaplan has been a kind patient mentor to me. I didn't mean to, but I sort of wrangled him into it, and he's been a huge help, and hasn't steered me wrong (yet). Hell, I'm still asking questions. Just enjoy your time here! I know I do.
Zach

AH HA HA! I truly didn't mean to "pipe block" or "pipe swipe" you.
Zach