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<blockquote data-quote="alfredo_buscatti" data-source="post: 312282" data-attributes="member: 36"><p>I assert that the purpose of communication is to communicate, and thus the purpose of assigning a size is to communicate it to someone else in the pipe world. What good does it afford anyone, then, if Dunhill assigns size idiosyncratically? So those among the Dunhill initiates can communicate privately with each other? This issue is simply about the capacity of their pipes. It is not a trade secret. Perhaps erratically assigning size was a way to befuddle the masses and thus the Dunhill makers could think themselves privileged. </p><p></p><p>And then for the generations of later pipe smokers who are trying to be precise when alluding to capacity to still be terming it a "Dunhill group X" perpetuates the myth that this has meaning, when in fact it was a silly convention from its origin.</p><p></p><p>I think of nothing sillier than to use the words "group X" to describe the capacity for one class of pipe and the same words to describe the capacity of another simply because of shape and finish.</p><p></p><p>Such nonsense! To me the whole thing thinks and stinks of British snobbery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alfredo_buscatti, post: 312282, member: 36"] I assert that the purpose of communication is to communicate, and thus the purpose of assigning a size is to communicate it to someone else in the pipe world. What good does it afford anyone, then, if Dunhill assigns size idiosyncratically? So those among the Dunhill initiates can communicate privately with each other? This issue is simply about the capacity of their pipes. It is not a trade secret. Perhaps erratically assigning size was a way to befuddle the masses and thus the Dunhill makers could think themselves privileged. And then for the generations of later pipe smokers who are trying to be precise when alluding to capacity to still be terming it a "Dunhill group X" perpetuates the myth that this has meaning, when in fact it was a silly convention from its origin. I think of nothing sillier than to use the words "group X" to describe the capacity for one class of pipe and the same words to describe the capacity of another simply because of shape and finish. Such nonsense! To me the whole thing thinks and stinks of British snobbery. [/QUOTE]
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