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  1. HCraven

    ESCUDO ewe!!!!!

    I hate to hear about this. I've got a tin back in my cellar that I fairly recently purchased from my local shop. Hope it's not the nasty stuff. :no: 
  2. HCraven

    I am officially a "real" pipe smoker now

    Hey, if it wasn't for relights, why would anyone buy a $100 Old Boy? I love mine, and use it often.
  3. HCraven

    Hello!

    Welcome to BoB, Tate! Great to have you aboard.
  4. HCraven

    Looks like the younger Bro's gotta cut back on your Starbuck

    I might drink a lot of coffee, but let me tell you, I've never once let one of those infernal energy drinks cross my lips, so I've got to be doing better than a lot of people. Besides, I offset any highs in my blood pressure from caffeine with the zen-like experience of smoking a pipe almost...
  5. HCraven

    LEFT HANDED LIGHTER?

    I feel your pain, Ron. I actually do a lot of things right-handed myself, shooting included, which is good considering that my shotgun is a side ejector, too. I never had to force myself to learn to do anything right-handed, some things just feel more natural to me that way. I don't consider...
  6. HCraven

    LEFT HANDED LIGHTER?

    Sorry about the inconvenience, Ron, but that's one of the things I love about the Old Boy and similar lighters - the fact that FOR ONCE, left-handed use is the standard, and right-handers have to learn to adapt to OUR WORLD! BWAHAHAHA! :twisted:  Nothing personal. ;)
  7. HCraven

    Hello from Bloomington, Indiana

    Welcome back! I've got a pipe smoking buddy in school down there right now, a younger guy named Colin. Perhaps you'll run into him at the Briar and Burley someday. Tell him I said hi if so. Nice to meet you!
  8. HCraven

    First bowl of Penzance

    Penzance is a very smooth tobacco, perhaps my favorite in the full English (Lat Bomb, if we want to be crass) genre. Sounds like just the thing after weeks of being limited to Carter Hall. Welcome home, Tom!
  9. HCraven

    Drugstore tobaccos in 1921

    Nice! That's a better spread than many pipe stores have these days.
  10. HCraven

    Pipes and Beards, mostly beards: one woman's perspective

    Dag! I kinda envy you bearded guys now. I can't really do the beard myself. No matter how I take care of it, mine comes in like a worn out Brillo pad.
  11. HCraven

    Best pipe of my life, and you to thank!

    That first "Eureka!" moment is the best. Hope you have many more great smokes!
  12. HCraven

    Spilman Mixture

    Great review, Dan! I've been a little curious about both this and Distinguished Gentleman, so I might have ti give it a shot. The price is right, too: you can hardly go wrong if you buy the 7oz can, but the small tins are a little steep.
  13. HCraven

    A tale of three tobaccos

    Excellent reviews, Andy.  It's been a while since I tried EMP, too, and even then it was in bulk from Reigel's, so God knows how long it had been sitting in that big jar, losing it's flavor, while they sell Steve's Choice and Match It by the pound.  Needless to say, I found it a little flat at...
  14. HCraven

    Prices on Dunhill 'bacs

    I think it's an elaborate profit-shifting conspiracy. Seems the prices at my B&M went up by an equal amount recently. :P 
  15. HCraven

    WARNING: PIPE RUINED BY ISO ALC. !

    It could be that the pipe had a thin lacquer finish.  Many pipes are finished with wax, but some of the factory pipes are done with lacquer: it's less labor intensive to apply, dries like lightning, and does offer a decent protective coating that retains it's shine better than a waxed pipe...
  16. HCraven

    Ho Lee Fuk...

    Honestly, I don't think the humor lies in the names themselves; it's a cheap, grade school level joke. The real humor comes from the fact that so many people failed to realize it was a joke before it blew up in their faces. Kinda like how every now and again, some hapless news organization...
  17. HCraven

    Ho Lee Fuk...

    The station issued an apology today, stating that these were not actually the names of the pilots, but rather a transcript of the last 10 seconds of tape on the cockpit voice recorder. :twisted: 
  18. HCraven

    Is this the Face of True Love in 2013?

    Personally, I'm with Cenk. I've got no use for tattoos personally, though I can respect people who have them, more so if they are well done and appropriately placed, by which I mean you can hide them with normal clothing when necessary (turtleneck sweaters and burkas don't count for my...
  19. HCraven

    Dilemma: B&M or Online Retailer?

    I think in my case, selection is the main factor that drives me to the online retailers. If my B&M carried half the stuff that the big online outlets have, I'd probably never bother ordering. I don't usually exceed the free shipping threshold when I do, either, so the slightly inflated prices...
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