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Fratellino
Number of posts: 6
Age: 47
Location: San Diego, CA
Tobacco: Various blends from Racine and Laramie in San Diego, including "Sweet John," "Wine Cavendish," and "Cherry Mixture." I have some vintage "Anniversary" from San Diego's now defunct "Tinder Box" tobacconist, and some "Vatican" mixture from The Sanctuary in San Luis Obispo. Nat Sherman's "Broadway Nougat" is a favorite, purchased in the old store before the move, and the "Music Hall" blend from Cincinnati Tobacconist. Lately I've branched out into some more full-bodied mixtures with the MacBaren's "Solent Mixture," as I felt I wasn't familiar enough with the latakia blends, and my first tin of "Orlik's Golden Slice," for semtimental reasons. At the same time, I recently acquired several "day tobaccos", lighter but very pleasant domestic blends, including Sutliff's "Mixture No. 79," Half and Half, Middleton's "Cherry Mixture", and an intriguing blend with unmistakable notes of chocolate on the nose called "Prince Albert"...you may have heard of it. Quel Surprise!
A recent acquisition from Liberty Tobacco is the "Scotland Yard" mixture. Sweet and savory at the same time, eminently smokable!
Pipe: A modest collection including everything from my very first pipe, a Dr. Grabow "Viscount" to a recently purchased porcelain Alsatian, festooned with mallards. I have a churchwarden purchased at Trantor's in Oxford, a long-stemmed clay, a meerschaum bulldog, a first rate calabash, and several briars in varying designs. What more do I require? For me, the lasting friendship of a pipe does not depend on price, but on the situation by which it came into one's life.
I also recently acquired a cherry-wood Ropp "Big Jean" which really caught my fancy on ebay. It's quite an impressive fist-full of pipe, meant for purposeful hand-held meditation, rather than being held in the mouth, as it's just too heavy for that. It's a poor-man's "free-hand" pipe, but I like it!
Registration date: 2010-04-09
 |  Subject: National Convention  Tue May 11, 2010 10:00 pm | |
| I think we need to have a National Convention or convocation on an annual basis. I know a group of people who get together every year specifically for the purpose of speaking latin with one another. They meet for about a week and speak conversational latin the whole time. Similarly, we could meet and talk about just about anything, but we have to do it while smoking. Anyone for seconding the motion? |
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Nightrider
Number of posts: 5012
Registration date: 2007-12-11
| | Subject: Re: National Convention Tue May 11, 2010 10:21 pm | |
| They call it 'The Chicago Pipe Show'. _________________  |
| | | | Hermit
Number of posts: 1530
Age: 57
Location: Ascension Parish
Tobacco: Exhausted Rooster
Pipe: Rad Davis Golden Blast Apple
Registration date: 2008-04-23
| | Subject: Re: National Convention Tue May 11, 2010 11:00 pm | |
| I can speak a little Pig Latin.  (Your posts sure take up a lotta room with that biography in the left margin. Just sayin'.) 
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
- Norman Thomas, (1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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| | | | Fratellino
Number of posts: 6
Age: 47
Location: San Diego, CA
Tobacco: Various blends from Racine and Laramie in San Diego, including "Sweet John," "Wine Cavendish," and "Cherry Mixture." I have some vintage "Anniversary" from San Diego's now defunct "Tinder Box" tobacconist, and some "Vatican" mixture from The Sanctuary in San Luis Obispo. Nat Sherman's "Broadway Nougat" is a favorite, purchased in the old store before the move, and the "Music Hall" blend from Cincinnati Tobacconist. Lately I've branched out into some more full-bodied mixtures with the MacBaren's "Solent Mixture," as I felt I wasn't familiar enough with the latakia blends, and my first tin of "Orlik's Golden Slice," for semtimental reasons. At the same time, I recently acquired several "day tobaccos", lighter but very pleasant domestic blends, including Sutliff's "Mixture No. 79," Half and Half, Middleton's "Cherry Mixture", and an intriguing blend with unmistakable notes of chocolate on the nose called "Prince Albert"...you may have heard of it. Quel Surprise!
A recent acquisition from Liberty Tobacco is the "Scotland Yard" mixture. Sweet and savory at the same time, eminently smokable!
Pipe: A modest collection including everything from my very first pipe, a Dr. Grabow "Viscount" to a recently purchased porcelain Alsatian, festooned with mallards. I have a churchwarden purchased at Trantor's in Oxford, a long-stemmed clay, a meerschaum bulldog, a first rate calabash, and several briars in varying designs. What more do I require? For me, the lasting friendship of a pipe does not depend on price, but on the situation by which it came into one's life.
I also recently acquired a cherry-wood Ropp "Big Jean" which really caught my fancy on ebay. It's quite an impressive fist-full of pipe, meant for purposeful hand-held meditation, rather than being held in the mouth, as it's just too heavy for that. It's a poor-man's "free-hand" pipe, but I like it!
Registration date: 2010-04-09
| | Subject: Left hand column Tue May 11, 2010 11:23 pm | |
| Yes I was wondering about that myself. Why exactly does the seeming entire profile have to appear in every post? Surely that should remain in the profile page rather then in the forums. Still. I don't think any sequoias were felled to display this page. |
| | | | Hermit
Number of posts: 1530
Age: 57
Location: Ascension Parish
Tobacco: Exhausted Rooster
Pipe: Rad Davis Golden Blast Apple
Registration date: 2008-04-23
| | Subject: Re: National Convention Tue May 11, 2010 11:44 pm | |
| | Fratellino wrote: | | Yes I was wondering about that myself. Why exactly does the seeming entire profile have to appear in every post? Surely that should remain in the profile page rather then in the forums. Still. I don't think any sequoias were felled to display this page. |
Like my mother-in-law used to say,
"Don't make me no never mind."
Just sayin'.
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
- Norman Thomas, (1884-1968) six-time U.S. Presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
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| | | | puros_bran
Nightrider
Number of posts: 5012
Registration date: 2007-12-11
| | Subject: Re: National Convention Wed May 12, 2010 3:48 am | |
| I think, and I may be wrong, that the Pipes/Tobacco section was intended to be somewhere along the lines of your favorites.. Like so
Pipes: A registration era Stanwell Canadian, Castello Searock Bent Billiard
Tobacco: Penzance and other heavy English.
Anyway, Chicago has turned into more than just a weekend to buy/sell wares... For all intent its hit the week long mark, with everything from fancy diners, meet & greets, carving seminars, The Smoke Tent (which seems to have turned into a place a man could happily spend a lifetime, a Valhalla for pipers? ) And about a 1000 other things to do...
Plus there's other 'shows' that are starting to follow suit...
Columbus Oh, Richmond Va, New York, Kansas City, and the Northern California show are all exciting with plenty of good food, good company, oddles of 'Pipe Celebrities', plus a couple truck loads of pipes/tobaccos/tampers/lighters/etc... I think if you attend one you'll get your 'Convention' bug sated. _________________ |
| | | | Doc Manhattan
BoB's Team
Number of posts: 2196
Age: 31
Location: Land of Steady Habits
Tobacco: Reiner LGF
Pipe: Gregor Lobnik
Registration date: 2008-05-26
| | Subject: Re: National Convention Wed May 12, 2010 7:10 am | |
| Besides pipe shows, I always thought of this board as an ongoing convention of pipe-fellows. Like the Gospel according to Prince Albert says, wherever two or more of us are gathered... We smoke, we talk shop, we show off new finds, we engineer trades... It's not the same as face-to-face, but it's pretty good for keeping the pursuit of tobacco and briar alive. (And you can't beat the cost of attending or the schedule.)
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"The plural of anecdote is not data."
-Frank Kotsonis
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