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Purple Grant
Joined : 26 May 2008
Posts : 4
Location : Cumbernauld, Scotland
 |  Subject: Hello  Mon May 26, 2008 1:57 pm | |
| Hi,
Yet another new guy.
I'm 30, from Scotland, bought my first pipe three years ago on my honeymoon (got 14 now)
I'm just at the point where aromatics are giving way to English blends.
How you all doing? |
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puros_bran
Nightrider
Joined : 10 Dec 2007
Posts : 1840
Location : Lower 48
Tobacco : half burned out cob
Pipe : yard clippings
| | Subject: Re: Hello Mon May 26, 2008 2:46 pm | |
| Umm I think we have a rule against Scotsmen...
Just kidding Welcome aboard.. Care to tell us a bit about the pipe scene over there???
Prices,availability, favored brands..etc etc
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For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. - Paul |
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Justpipes
The Duke
Age : 50
Joined : 17 Dec 2007
Posts : 3718
Location : American by birth, Southern by the grace of God!
Tobacco : John Middleton Walnut, Prince Albert, GLP Cumberland, Recently Exhausted Rooster.
Pipe : Brissetts, Kaywoodies in variations of the billiard and dublin shape.
| | Subject: Re: Hello Mon May 26, 2008 3:01 pm | |
| Welcome to BoB Grant!
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"Man is the only religious animal. In the holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of Heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard."
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Ol'Dawg
Age : 63
Joined : 03 Jan 2008
Posts : 532
Location : Northeast Georgia
| | Subject: Re: Hello Mon May 26, 2008 4:09 pm | |
| Hello and welcome!
Jim
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My Tinsky OGB Christmas 2008 pipe |
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Carlos
Moderator
Age : 51
Joined : 10 Dec 2007
Posts : 1775
Location : Chestnut, IL
| | Subject: Re: Hello Mon May 26, 2008 5:12 pm | |
| Hey Purple Grant! 
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Rules of Acquisition:
#223. Beware the man who doesn't make time for oo-mox. |
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Mikem
The Coordinator
Age : 53
Joined : 14 Dec 2007
Posts : 740
Location : Glendale, Arizona
Tobacco : Pembroke
Pipe : Mike Brissett Bulldog
| | Subject: Re: Hello Tue May 27, 2008 6:41 am | |
| Welcome to BOB. Looking forward to reading your posts.
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Arizona, where the temperature is always warm but the pipe smoking is always cool. Mikem
I highly recommend Scott Bundy at www.piperestore.com for all of your pipe cleaning and restoration work. |
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Muddler
Age : 52
Joined : 22 May 2008
Posts : 105
Location : South Africa
| | Subject: Re: Hello Tue May 27, 2008 8:52 am | |
| | Smart move - buying your first pipe on honeymoon. Good wife you've got there - hang on to her. Welcome Grant. And here I was thinking the only pipes of interest to Scotsmen were bagpipes. Ok, I guess all the Scottish jibes will end soon - guess you're used to it. |
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GarWood
Age : 50
Joined : 07 May 2008
Posts : 76
Location : Hockeytown!
| | Subject: Re: Hello Tue May 27, 2008 10:24 am | |
| | Muddler wrote: | | ... Ok, I guess all the Scottish jibes will end soon - guess you're used to it. |
Are you kidding? We haven't even gotten to "kilt" jibes yet! 
Welcome, PG  |
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Purple Grant
Joined : 26 May 2008
Posts : 4
Location : Cumbernauld, Scotland
| | Subject: Re: Hello Tue May 27, 2008 11:39 am | |
| | puros_bran wrote: | Care to tell us a bit about the pipe scene over there???
Prices,availability, favored brands..etc etc |
Terrible! Glasgow had one great proper old-world pipe and cigar shop "Herbert Love" and that shut down on new years day after being there for decades (Got a calabash in the closing down sale as a minor consolation though)
Now, basically all you can get in stores is Clan, Condor or occasionally St. Bruno or Gold Block. None of which are very nice at all.
There's one small newsagent that's got a few Kendal and Peterson tobaccos and a couple of pipes. But it's not a pipe shop (They've no knowledge or interest, just stock a few things.)
A sad state of affairs I think you'll agree. So I'm online for my pipe needs now. (Eagerly awaiting my first couple of pipes I've ordered from Frenchy, after hearing so many good things.)
Pipe smoking is pretty rare here these days (not historically though). To the extent that I always make a big impression when I'm out with my pipe because it's so rare to see a young(ish) man with one.
Thank god for the internet! |
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Highstump
Age : 56
Joined : 25 Apr 2008
Posts : 188
Location : Willamette Valley, Oregon
| | Subject: Re: Hello Tue May 27, 2008 6:29 pm | |
| Hello Grant. It's rare to see anyone with a pipe in my neck of the woods. It really seems odd to me. When I was kid you couldn't throw a rock without hitting someone smoking a pipe. 
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Jim
"People are entitled to their own opinions, they are not entitled to their own facts." (Vincent Bugliosi) |
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scottyb
Joined : 07 Apr 2008
Posts : 89
Location : Fort Gratiot, MI
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puros_bran
Nightrider
Joined : 10 Dec 2007
Posts : 1840
Location : Lower 48
Tobacco : half burned out cob
Pipe : yard clippings
| | Subject: Re: Hello Wed May 28, 2008 3:48 am | |
| Piping in the States has seen a small surge over the past few years, mostly Cigar smokers making the switch. Granted it isn't anything like the glory days but I occasionally pass someone smoking.
Keep up the good fight.
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For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. - Paul |
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jeepernick
Mud Flaps
Age : 34
Joined : 13 Dec 2007
Posts : 348
Location : Good o'l Kantuk
| | Subject: Re: Hello Wed May 28, 2008 5:37 am | |
| Welcome!
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Trooper Island
When a person puts "Unknown" at the end of a quote, that means they probably don't know how to spell anonymous - Unknown. |
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Slow Puffs
Resident Sportscaster
Age : 60
Joined : 10 Dec 2007
Posts : 2546
Location : Alberta. Canada
Tobacco : GLP Telegraph Hill
Pipe : Dunhill Tanshell Liverpool
| | Subject: Re: Hello Wed May 28, 2008 6:20 am | |
| A warm welcome Grant.
 Paul |
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simmich
Joined : 30 Apr 2008
Posts : 37
Location : Palm Springs, CA
| | Subject: Re: Hello Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:54 am | |
| | Hi Grant...welcome to the forum. |
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