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    Refilling your lighter with butane

    (ORIGINAL URL NO LONGER VALID http://www.ebay.com/gds/Quick-Tips-on-Getting-Your-Lighters-Working-Again-/10000000055683047/g.html ) Here are some quick tips to repairing butane lighters and flint lighters that are not working or sparking. These suggestions work about 95% of the time. If they...
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    Boswell Tobaccos

    My Secret Santa brought me 2 oz. each of Boswell’s Best, Piper’s. Pleasure, Honey Roast, and Christmas Cookie. All four are excellent. Boswell’s aromatics are more like certain European aros; Rattray’s for example.
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    Lets Talk Boswell

    My Secret Santa gifted me four two ounce pouches of Boswell’s aromatics: Boswell’s Best, Piper’s Pleasure, Honey Roast,and Christmas Cookie. The latter two are excellent by themselves, but I prefer the first two mixed 50/50. Best is a Virginia blend; Pleasure is is a Burley blend. Mix’em for...
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    Letter by Holmes?

    This century-old letter fragment is part of the Indiana University's Lilly LIbrary's collection of Sherlockiana:
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    What blends to give someone who wants to try Pipe Smoking?

    Friends do not let friends smoke Mixture #79
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    What blends to give someone who wants to try Pipe Smoking?

    S’okay. I do it, too. All-the-time. Sometimes I get congratulative mail for resurrecting a thread.
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    Has anyone tried the new Sutliff Moroccan Spice?

    Sounds (perhaps) similar to the HU product reviewed by JimInks Could someone offer a review?
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    Sasquatch Video

    What do you mean, “They don’t wear clothes.”
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    See what happens?!?!

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    Am I 'old school' and, if so, is that a bad thing?

    Total agreement on cellphones. I carried a Samsung Convoy flip phone for almost a decade. Charged it once or twice a week. Now, I have a freakin’ iPhone….. nuff said. I hate it.
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    EGG NOG

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    EGG NOG

    Probably not, but who knows? Meanwhile, might I interest you in some “Tobacco Caramel Buttermilk Soap?” https://www.countrycharmcandlecompany.com/products/tobacco-caramel-buttermilk-soap
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    Pipe smokers handbook

    Here are some publications, attached, which may interest you.....
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    EGG NOG

    I tried the H&H Egg Nog pipe tobacco. Very nice; a Christmas-spice type blend. But when someone asks, "What are you smoking?" how do you answer "Egg Nog" with a straight face?
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    Desert Island Smokes...

    I have long enjoyed ressurrecting old threads…….
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