PreppyHippy
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Gentlemen and all ladies:
I've been a regular reader of the forum for a long time but hesitant to join because, well, I fear becoming addicted to posting. As I'm sure many of you will acknowledge, it's fun just to be an observer for a long time, in many things in life that is, and sometimes one just doesn't want to walk onto the playing field and start feeling a part of the scrum.
I've watched the conversations here and from the stands seen the many different personalities and tastes here and certainly respect all of them and the abundant expressions of goodwill and helpful care members give each other and new members. Even from the stands, I want to say, the sportspersonship on the field of this forum looks admirable and worthy of any viewer's respect.
I've been smoking pipes for ten years, although I did so sporatically for years before that. Sometimes I don't smoke very much and sometimes I do. I smoke english blends, balkans, and the associated orientals. (And I'm aware, as you all are, of how those different terms can mean the same thing--or the flux of those terms. I use them never the less just to try to communicate the genre field of that smoke I like.) I also enjoy straight virginias and am now trying out lakeland blends (in meerschaum) because I want to know what that part of pipe tradition entails. I've smoked many but certainly not all of the often mentioned tins of the tobacco strains I enjoy.
I've gone through several phases in my pipe gathering. For a long time I was in my army mount pipe phase, and am now in a sandblasted pipe phase, I guess. Although I'm well stocked in Peterson and Savinelli pipes, and a few Stanwells, I'm certainly in an english classic pipes phase, and have been for most of my pipe smoking time. I've built a gathering of older Barlings, older Comoy's, and older Charatans. I've added several smooth and classic shaped meerschaums and a gourd calabash. I use a Corona Old Boy lighter and I'm in a phase of gathering and rotating old three-piece tools and odd old tampers. (I enjoy the gadgetry of the high maintenance that pipe smoking brings.)
I register here to be able to ask all the silly questions that I've been too embarrassed to ask. That and to say the usual, whatever comes to mind, that truly reflects my joys and my dislikes about the wonderful gourmand hobby we have of seeing our time and lives enriched because--amazing as it is--smoke itself has flavor when certain leaves are burned in certain ways. How rich it makes us to experience these flavors we would never have known exist if we didn't set up the way we have to put them across our tastebuds.
Until our later posts then, and the sharing of our thoughts on our stuff!
Very best wishes.
I've been a regular reader of the forum for a long time but hesitant to join because, well, I fear becoming addicted to posting. As I'm sure many of you will acknowledge, it's fun just to be an observer for a long time, in many things in life that is, and sometimes one just doesn't want to walk onto the playing field and start feeling a part of the scrum.
I've watched the conversations here and from the stands seen the many different personalities and tastes here and certainly respect all of them and the abundant expressions of goodwill and helpful care members give each other and new members. Even from the stands, I want to say, the sportspersonship on the field of this forum looks admirable and worthy of any viewer's respect.
I've been smoking pipes for ten years, although I did so sporatically for years before that. Sometimes I don't smoke very much and sometimes I do. I smoke english blends, balkans, and the associated orientals. (And I'm aware, as you all are, of how those different terms can mean the same thing--or the flux of those terms. I use them never the less just to try to communicate the genre field of that smoke I like.) I also enjoy straight virginias and am now trying out lakeland blends (in meerschaum) because I want to know what that part of pipe tradition entails. I've smoked many but certainly not all of the often mentioned tins of the tobacco strains I enjoy.
I've gone through several phases in my pipe gathering. For a long time I was in my army mount pipe phase, and am now in a sandblasted pipe phase, I guess. Although I'm well stocked in Peterson and Savinelli pipes, and a few Stanwells, I'm certainly in an english classic pipes phase, and have been for most of my pipe smoking time. I've built a gathering of older Barlings, older Comoy's, and older Charatans. I've added several smooth and classic shaped meerschaums and a gourd calabash. I use a Corona Old Boy lighter and I'm in a phase of gathering and rotating old three-piece tools and odd old tampers. (I enjoy the gadgetry of the high maintenance that pipe smoking brings.)
I register here to be able to ask all the silly questions that I've been too embarrassed to ask. That and to say the usual, whatever comes to mind, that truly reflects my joys and my dislikes about the wonderful gourmand hobby we have of seeing our time and lives enriched because--amazing as it is--smoke itself has flavor when certain leaves are burned in certain ways. How rich it makes us to experience these flavors we would never have known exist if we didn't set up the way we have to put them across our tastebuds.
Until our later posts then, and the sharing of our thoughts on our stuff!
Very best wishes.
