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  1. planetary

    Whoa, check out tobacco reviews

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

    Whoa, check out tobacco reviews

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

    Coming over from the darkside

    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.
  4. planetary

    Smoke'em, if you got 'em!

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

    Did I make a huge mistake?

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

    Cellaring and new blend trial

    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...
  7. planetary

    What's up with SF?

    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...
  8. planetary

    Hello from Northern California

    Welcome from San Jose!
  9. planetary

    Pipesmagazine.com

    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...
  10. planetary

    Pipesmagazine.com

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

    Knowing What You Like

    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...
  12. planetary

    It's COLD in California!

    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??
  13. planetary

    R.A.T.S. Rarely Available Tobacco Signal

    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.
  14. planetary

    Not allowed to show tobacco in the tobacco shop?

    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...
  15. planetary

    Downton Abbey

    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...
  16. planetary

    Reviews

    This.
  17. planetary

    Un-****ing-believable

    I tend to agree. I don't think anyone disagrees with the result of the case (that big tobacco companies lied; they really did) nor about the core facts (that smoking an immoderately large amount of cigarettes is a horrible idea). But it's an interesting judicial trend that may or not be new...
  18. planetary

    Seven Essentials

    Just seven is really hard. Take a look at this list of tobacco touchstones. (I used to maintain a similar list in the old Tobacco Aging FAQ.) If the intent is to pick blends that will allow you speak intelligibly with others, you might sacrifice some quality and go with the "good *and*...
  19. planetary

    small haul of aged GL Pease today, which should i smoke?

    Never been to Edwards, as I shop exclusively online these days, whenever I'm stocking up. Heard about it for years, though. Maybe I should go in sometime. On the tobacco, though I'm a day late... you could open either and have a very enjoyable experience. I'd open whichever you're in the...
  20. planetary

    pipetongue1's cellar

    Lots of Beantowners around these parts. Heh. Ken - This is a massive list. Wow. ...But where are the pictures??? :D Cheers, Jason
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