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...to unregistered "guests?" Can't see anything but the framework and ads around the main section. All topics are blank. Have no intention of joining another #@!%ing forum. This time-suck is bad enough.

And if so, in what way? Not knocking Castellos; I have two. Or is it three? Anyhow, I just wondered, since they cost about twice as much and I don't have a Radice. (I personally have a fondness for Il Ceppos, as an Italian marque, but that's another subject. Sort of.)

You know, his monthly costs, lease payment, payroll, fixtures and fittings, electric, insurance, etc.  I have done business with the company, but I pictured some guy working out of a closet. Apparently I need to revise my image of the current market in pens and ink. How many pens does he need to...

Fans of no longer available Floid Blue aftershave (which allegedly has a cult following) might be interested in this near-exact replacement, also from Spain. Love the scent, which has been described as Aqua Velva with a college degree. Perfect amount of menthol, perfect amount of residual...

I was looking around at my pipe collection this morning and suddenly realized that I hate stem/shank enhancements of any kind. And weird shapes. Even Italian "classic" shapes look wrong. Have been in denial about this for years. Think I'd be better off sticking to Dunhills and other old Brits...

I'm an inexperienced pipe smoker, having only been smoking a pipe since 1962, so I'll ask: Anyone know if "alcohol causes mini-fissures" on acrylic bits, as I just read on another site? Might be good to know, as I'm just starting to use full-strength Everclear to clean my pipes--and it works...

I don't understand this; are they suggesting that this is something revolutionary, something that required "passionate research"...

On my watch list just for the hell of it. It's good, but not that good. My last couple of ounces got tossed because a weird off-flavor had developed. Would buy another tin at close to normal prices, but I'm pretty much done with it. Call it sour grapes. Call me biased. But don't call me. :lol...

Will trade two Falcons in good shape for one 100g tin of McClelland Blackwoods Flake.

Death Rides a Horse. He sure did like smoking pipes in his roles--wonder what this particular pipe was? (21:08 and 21:19). And he must have had a collection of some sort. Wonder where they went with his passing? <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/n1DgmyB8MIA"...

Interesting obit. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?n=charles-a-normand&pid=189284799&fhid=4412

Just bought a bottle. Allegedly it's been sold here for the last five years or so. Shows how alert I am. Hardly ground-breaking news to guys in less repressive states, but I think there are three or four characters here that dwell in the Empire State. Excelsior!...and no swilling.

Nah, I just made up the "Ultra" business; there is no Savinelli Ultra. Pretty pipe, though. I'd love to have it, except for the price. What I find interesting--and I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this--is that this premium pipe among others has neither a bowl coating nor a filter. Nor do...

First it was cigarettes. Throw 'em under the bus, we're pipe smokers. Or cigar smokers. Judging by the way the manufacture and use of tobacco products has been defended for the last few decades, it was only a matter of time before some appeaser made another concession to our masters, in this...

Rhapsodizing on a theme suggested by some Beckers, a marque I have admired for some time, though I own exactly none.  I was going to title this post "Outdoing Becker." What better way to spend $500+? Food, clothing, mortgage, or other tomfoolery? I don't know, maybe Becker does it better--more...

Ever been in a quandary over what to wear at your next board meeting? I have. I cry in my pillow all night, wondering if my attire will make a good impression at the next meeting, and aid in the illusion that I know what I'm doing there. Rising to speak one time, I remember, I had hardly got a...

Heh.  :joker:

I bid a C-note for this cute little feller on ebay then forgot about it, thinking I had it covered unless some psycho showed up. It's a chubby 999 Peterson Shamrock, which I believe is a second. It had a couple of small fills and was in need of cosmetic restoration. So I should have had it...

...are in Missouri Meerschaum Company's museum. Recent acquisitions for same, sent to company by daughter of prior owner, apparently deceased. (I use the term "best" capriciously--current production I'm sure smokes just as well as these, maybe better. But these look so cool.)

Apparently the signature study that spurred legislative spasms leading to public smoking bans is bogus, to put it briefly. Shocking. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2017/02/secondhand_smoke_isn_t_as_bad_as_we_thought.html