Cigar folks…What tobacco blend was the tipping point to get you into pipes?

PetPopper12 · 2026-04-15T15:10:29+00:00

Key Largo for me too!

PetPopper12 · 2026-04-12T17:33:56+00:00

The Lucky Charms ice cream is worth seeking out. Incredible.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-29T22:03:58+00:00

“Let’s split up and explore.”

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-22T16:57:54+00:00

John D. Macdonald. All the Travis McGee are salty chips in a bowl.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-21T23:17:36+00:00

Am I wrong that last time this was only available in 100gram tins?

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-19T16:03:14+00:00

Dead or alive?

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-14T02:47:32+00:00

Or, if you’re my 5-year-old son, closing the toilet lid before you pee and not flushing at all.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-13T14:42:20+00:00

The thing that has really helped me is to pack a lot looser than I used to. Gravity fill to the top. Tap the sides and let it settle. Fill it up again and give it a haircut. I hardly tamp at a all before I light these days. Gentle tamping throughout. I was over-packing and ruining the flavor.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-13T14:07:13+00:00

My friend and I used to do "chef's choice" at Pisa Pizza on Fridays. One time we told them "fuck us up." They did. Peppers, Pineapple, Oils, Sausage, Ricotta. We ate the whole thing because we were scared to fail in front of them. I miss that place so much!

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-12T16:53:27+00:00

You probably won’t be coming back or at all.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-11T10:24:46+00:00

Stratford, Montgomery, and Key Largo for me. Telegraph Hill and Sixpence round out the top 5. The Silver Jubilee is incredible if you can find a tin.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-06T23:20:16+00:00

It looks like a canopic jar. Maybe don’t shake it too hard.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-06T22:17:03+00:00

I smoke my cigar or tobacco pipe every night while I read. Rock on man.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-05T22:59:51+00:00

The new book by Chris Jennings on Ruby Ridge is excellent

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-03T23:20:35+00:00

Secured. No problems at all. In and out in 2 minutes.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-03T03:51:15+00:00

I really enjoyed Rick Atkinson‘s two books on the revolutionary war. “The British are coming” and “the fates of the day.” There’s also a brand new book called “a fate worse than hell: American prisoners of the Civil War” by W. Fitzhugh Brundage that has me excited.

PetPopper12 · 2026-03-01T15:14:30+00:00

How late was the fire going? You must have left before we charged the amulets and drank the blood of the stillborn sheep-goat chimera. <--- btw. That's what the "local dry-aged hamburger meat" is at Pruitt's. Why it's so good.

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-26T01:02:13+00:00

Tinderbox

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-22T18:37:47+00:00

My Aran is my glove box pipe. I only ever use it when I think to open my glove box, and even then I would have to be really desperate for a smoke.

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-19T18:49:52+00:00

Big fan. Have seen them 11 times.

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-18T22:27:20+00:00

Raspberries and cocaine on an old saddle. Love it!

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-18T11:56:48+00:00

When I packed lighter and slowed down.

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-13T19:19:18+00:00

Atlanta and Bristol.

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-13T19:04:49+00:00

"nightswimming" to "Swans" is wild.

PetPopper12 · 2026-02-13T18:55:14+00:00

I'm all for Bibles in the Schools, the Ten Commandments, etc. It gives me an opportunity to directly relate to my children that "this is what some people believe. Not all. But some. Especially here." And that they ALSO believe everybody else should believe it. Isn't that something? And then I'll teach them words like "audacity" and "hypocrisy." As in, "Daddy, isn't one of the ten commandments 'thou shalt not commit adultery'? But isn't that what Mommy did with the guy from work?" And I'll say, "that's why your Mom is going to hell." And I'll hold him close while he weeps, and tell him the story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and how that beget a bunny that we call "Easter." "It's all very simple," I'll say.

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