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Yep. Several other GLP blends as well, I noticed.

I've seen that, too. Fortunately, you can still sort by date. I hope that setting is the default for new users.

As do I.  And Bear's "pay it forward" program: a marvel of effort and generosity.  Or how about A Sophisticate Like Myself, and his imitators?  ASP was a great place in the late 90s and early 2000s.

Curious -- how did the Mephisto fare, re-hydrated? Surely some of its prized character was lost -- but was it still recognizable?

:) Two links might be of interest: 1) the 376 TR reviews of Penzance 2) LMGTFY

For a new smoker, yes. But we're talking about building a cellar here, and that is squarely in the domain of the enthusiast! Although not squarely related, I would consider the question along the lines of the "depth vs. breadth" cellar debate. If you are the type of person who is very set in...

Well, don't forget that SF let posts age out.  Their archives only ever went back a number of months.  I had a number of conversations with the admins about this, but they never budged, indicating that data retention was neither very important to the community, nor a technical priority. Mind...

Welcome from San Jose!

Are you sure you are going to the right site, e.g. no typos, not "https", no ":$portnumber" or anything? Try googling for "pipes magazine" and clicking the link that Google gives you. Does this link work, or generate the same error? http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/ If you're still errored...

http://pipesmagazine.com/ has been working non-stop for me for as long as I've had it bookmarked.

My tastes have changed, too. I cellared some Latakia blends early on, despite not being deeply interested in them. Now I find myself interested in things more cyclically (though I don't smoke very much at all, because of the kids), so I am glad to have a fairly broad cellar. If you're the...

This whole thing of going out in the morning and finding some kind of ice or frost on my car? Completely outrageous and uncivilized. When will it end??

As reported on another forum, McCranie's has Red Ribbon back in stock. It's the first shipment of their new 2008 vintage (only the fourth vintage in the history of the blend). Its sister blend, Red Flake, is still available with tobacco from the 2000 vintage.

I've long thought that as societies embrace national health care, in which the government has an increased stake in the health care costs of its people, that it will begin to penalize and prohibit behaviors which increase health care costs. In general, smoking makes people less healthy than...

I just watched Season 1 and Season 2, in the last two weeks or so. It's very good! There was a marked uptick of melodrama in season 2, but it didn't seem terribly out of place -- at least, not in the way that I watched the show, on blu-rays, two episodes per night. There's a whole lot to...