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GENERAL TOPICS => Tall Tales => Topic started by: Coloradian on June 26, 2008, 03:03:16 PM
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There's nothing I enjoy more then a good pipe full of Cherry Cavendish in a fine briar pipe while in the great outdoors! Ok in this case outside my home in Mississippi?
Is there anyone else out there that smokes a pipe?
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Dern it.
Howdy, Coloradian. Ya must be thinkin’ we’re an awful unfriendly posse. We ain’t, hell, we put up with one ‘nother.
Far is I know we only got one pipe smoker whut hangs ‘round here ‘n he ain’t available right now.
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Welcome Coloradian!
I smoke a ceegar occasionally (less now than before) and have thought I might enjoy a pipe, but have yet to try it.
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Used to smoke a pipe many many years ago and enjoyed them thouroughly, haven't smoked anything in about 30 years!
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I smoke cigars at shoots for effect. My Dad used to smoke a pipe, and I’ve thought about getting one for those times after a major shoot and everyone is laxin’ around the campfire. Other than that I’m a basic non-smoker.
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Don't ya gotta stay 20 feet away from the nearest tent entrance to smoke...? ;)
Can ya still get Bugler papers & loose 'baccy in a little draw string pouch?
BP
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My Dad had one of those cigarette rolling contraptions and used to use Bugler paper. Every so often he would get me to roll some cigarettes for him, and I used to really mess with him, Out of every batch I made there would be one or two that had so much tobacco in it I almost couldn’t pull the handle back to roll the cigarette. (Very hard to even draw enough to get it lit!). ::) Then I would add one or two that had just enough tobacco to hold the shape of the cigarette. (Draw on that and light it and the thing would burn right up to your lips) :o :o. Needless to say my Dad did have me make his cigarettes very often! ;D ;D ;D
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Bull Durham was one of the brands in a cloth bag If I remember correctly Bugler came in a foil pack blue with a silotte of the Bugler on the front.
Rusty I believed my Dad had one of them contraptions also
good to see some others posting in here at Tall Tales welcome Coloradian and Black Powder
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good to see some others posting in here at Tall Tales welcome Coloradian and Black Powder
Thank you kindly.
I just recently went to a smoke shop lookin' for papers cuz I wanted to try rolling cartirdges for my c&b. I never smoked much and my wife just quit after way too many years. But some flick I saw recently had an exchange between two pards, the one borrowing the other's pouch, trying to put it back into his own vest pocket. I bet it's been written into more than one western movie. Anyway, it got me to thinkin' about maybe just for the Saturday shoots...
I know that Fall Creek sells a bunch of haversack stuffers, including a basic clay pipe and cigars, but nothing for cigarettes. Time for more on-line research.
BP
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I'd like to know what you learn. I know that pipes were in common use, and that cigars were also, but have wondered just how widespread. The prevailing "wisdom" is that cigarettes were deemed effeminate and not yet in widespread use. That blows all those Louis L'Amour books away. :( :D
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Hi ya'll!
I live in the tobacco capital of the US! The Tarheel State, North Carolina and I have smoked for 30+ yrs and am not ashamed of it neither! I've smoked a good briar packed with Captain Black and I've smoked great dominican cigars and I've smoked some awful tasting Clint Eastwood cheroots and I've rolled my own from Bull Durham, which is still available in that little pouch and bugler too. I learned to roll in my younger days in the early 70's when the stuff we put in them made you feel funny. I still smoke salems and don't intend to quit no matter how much my kids nag at me. But I can't in the house cause the boss don't like it. Hard to get it lit when its pouring buckets.
Try JOB papers for BP paper cartridges! It's real thin and lights up great with little residue.
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Hooo Boy....heres' a great thread. Let's discuss smoking. Blackpowder, sure. But this is a little nuts, whether you smoke or not.
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BP, fore ya run on-line look to the seedier convenience stores/gas stations. Those ‘round here carry papers for the dopers.
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Seedier convenience stores? What, on my side of town, in these 'burbs? Perish the thought. I felt weird enough calling that smoke shop asking if they sold cigarette papers cuz I wanted to try re-enacting. Heck, he probably thought I had glaucoma or was on chemo.
Didn't know that cigarettes were considered fruity in the day. Guess Hollywood wasn't gonna tell Duke that.
Bull Durham. Good flick, probably a good smoke. A pouch'd last me all season. "Smells grand, smokes right,Tastes sweet, can't bite..."
BP
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I wouldn't worry none BP. All the heads around here don't use papers no more. They take a blunt cigar, usually flavored with some kind a fruity somethin' like peach or gingerbread or cranberry, take a razor blade and cut it open some, and then load it with weed. Nobody but the really sophisticated smokers like the politicians uses cigarette papers. But they don't inhale. ;)
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Sorry. Mistakes happen when ya don’t know where folks are.
The gang bangers are ‘bout the only ones these parts doin’ blunts. Been doin’ ‘em for years. Kindah low rent.
The suburbanites wantin’ ta relive their college days on the weekends still roll.
When ya see ‘em in the stores I described, if they’re clean they’re buyin’ papers. If they look like Bob Marley ‘n stink they’re buyin’ cigars.
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Ain't that profilin' ? ;)
BP
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Reckon that couldah been argued when I was a cop ‘n a defense attorney didn’t have anythin’ else. Retired now. Call ‘em as I see ‘em.
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I've rolled Top off n on over the years, no machine. Once ya get the trick down ya don need one.
Ya can always tell a pot smoker when they try ta roll one. They turn out this pathetic toothpick with the ends all twisted up. Cant get a good drag cause the tobbacco is packed too tight.
Dad smoked a pipe when I was a baby. Took it up maself when I was about 17. Captain Black vanilla. Could never keep the damn thing lit, but boy did I stand out from the crowd ;D The girls who didn't smoke loved the smell of it an didn't mind me puffin on it. It threw my boss at the burger joint off kilter ta see a teen boy drawin on a pipe at the staff meetings. I started havin a problem with the resin buildin up in the stem an stickin ta ma teeth--yuk. I gave it up an went back ta coffin nails.
As far as ciggarettes bein effeminent, that started with the filters as far as I know. That's why there's a Marlboro Man. Filtered smokes were desiged ta keep a ladies teeth and fingers clean, not fer health. Phillip Morris wanted ta expand their market an put a tough cowbow in the adds ta let us know it was OK ta be a man an smoke em.
Leo
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Arcey, you're probably right. I only mention it 'cause awhile back I needed somethin' to fund my cigarette, bourbon, and .45 colt cartridge habit and I took a part-time at a corner store and the wanna be's were buyin' 'em. My town ain't got but 1400 people in it and they wouldn't know a real gangbanger if he walked up and slapped 'em. They'd be cleanin' their britches. 'bout a year ago back a wanna be broke into a 82 year old ladies house here in town and she shot him in the leg with a beretta .25, then put him on the sofa 'til the law showed up. The no good sued her and we here in the neighborhood threw her a party and took up enough to cover her legal expenses. Man, that old lady could shoot AND cook!
BP, what is it that Ron White said? "Turns out they were arresting every person driving on that particular sidewalk, and that's profiling, and profiling is WRONG!
Leo, sounds like you're my kind of fella. My dad had a pipe stand on the coffee table when I was a kid but I never saw him light one. He smoked Kool non-filters and then switched to Salems and I used to steal 'em from him. I never will forget the day I turned 16 he offered me a cigarette and I thought I was a MAN. Turns out he knew all along I was smokin' and takin' his and he told me I could buy my own from then on. I never got it until I became a dad and had the same problem for a while.
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Reckon that couldah been argued when I was a cop ‘n a defense attorney didn’t have anythin’ else. Retired now. Call ‘em as I see ‘em.
Knew you were a LEO. Not questioning at all the observations you made. Seem pretty astute to me.
BP
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Soooo, what happened to Coloradian? ??? :D
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Mebbe you skeered im Trinity!
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Pipe? Captain Black? YUM!!!
Nothin' like a good briar...
Reminds me so much of Boston John, God rest his soul, he sent me one of the best I ever smoked.
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Pipe? Captain Black? YUM!!!
Nothin' like a good briar...
Reminds me so much of Boston John, God rest his soul, he sent me one of the best I ever smoked.
It makes me sad to know that Boston John is no longer with us. Somehow I missed the news of him passing away.
Count me in as a pipe smoker also.
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I've been known to light up a pipe once in a while--there's nothing quite so relaxing as sitting around a campfire puffing a pipe after dark... I always felt that pipe tobacco smells best when someone else is smoking it, though.
CC Griff
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Thanks for the answers guys and I'm sorry about that.
I just plumb lost this post? Still getting use to the forum I guess?
Nice to see I'm not alone. Ya'll scared me at first. Made me think... Hummmm that might not be the thing to ask!! haha... Still not sure how we went down the weed smoking in flavored blunt wrappers road with that question though? ;)
And what was that movie that the one cowboy kept taking the tobacco pouch from the other?
I'm thinking John Wayne was one of the two and everytime he'd roll a good smoke he'd end up giving it to Dean Martin cause he couldn't roll worth a hoot. I'm sure it will show on TCM again for the month is over!
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Ho, Coloradian.
The weed stuff is just a l’il thing known as ‘thread drift’. Even happens on respectable boards. Ain’t no thing.
Nothin’ ta be scared of. Look ‘round in Tall Tales might find ya like it here. Watch out fer that moderator Slim fellah. He’s a tough one. Wants ta outlaw Velveeta.
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Ho, Coloradian. Watch out fer that moderator Slim fellah. Hes a tough one. Wants ta outlaw Velveeta.
But it melts so nice. Like magic ::)
Leo
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Yeah sort of thought so Arcey.
Pretty funny all the same. My grandfather use to speak of smoking skunk weed that grew in the ditches when he couldn't get any baccy? No wonder he got along with my grandmother so well. haha...
And I'll keep an out out for that Slim fella! ;)
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When I still smoked, my favorite load was a self-made blend of 3-star Royal and 3-star Blue, from Iwan Riese in Chicago. After I left the Windy City Capt Black (gold or royal are outstanding) served me quite well, in one of several well-broken in briars, or my favorite, a Sherlock Holmes style Meerschaum Calabash. There is nothing smoother than good Cavendish tobacco in a well-made meerschaum. Gave up recerational tobacco, still have the pipe collection. Probably just as well... the older I get the more absent-minded, and black powder and a lit pipe don't mix LOL...
"A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to stick in his mouth".
your humble servant
Prof Marvel
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Does anybody here remember the episode of "Leave it to Beaver" where the Beave and his pal smoked old coffee grounds through Wards new Meerschaum?
They got sick as dogs and turned the color on the virgin pipe. Don't know what brought that ta mind, haven't seen the show in ages. I need TV Land.
Leo
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Yeah I remember the beave and Larry Mondello that smoking coffee in dads new pipe. haha... ;D
The things we remember.
Love that statement
"A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to stick in his mouth".
That's a good one!
Who was the western star who always smoked a pipe in the movies? He teamed up with Clint as bounty hunters, in one movie I remember. Always had this one pipe with an orange stem it seemed??? Hummmm Anyone know?
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That was Lee Van Cleef as Col. Douglas Mortimer, in For a Few Dollars More.
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Nothin’ ta be scared of. Look ‘round in Tall Tales might find ya like it here. Watch out fer that moderator Slim fellah. He’s a tough one. Wants ta outlaw Velveeta.
That's fer sure. ;)
Slim
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That was Lee Van Cleef as Col. Douglas Mortimer, in For a Few Dollars More.
That had ta be the darkest of the Leone films. The music from that pocket watch was hypnotizing. Lee Van Cleef always played his parts ta the hilt.
Leo
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Yeah I remember the beave and Larry Mondello that smoking coffee in dads new pipe. haha... ;D
The things we remember.
Love that statement
"A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to stick in his mouth".
That's a good one!
Who was the western star who always smoked a pipe in the movies? He teamed up with Clint as bounty hunters, in one movie I remember. Always had this one pipe with an orange stem it seemed??? Hummmm Anyone know?
Take a good look at my Avatar ;D
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This thread made me fire up my briar over the weekend. Sittin' outside, enjoying a western novel with the cows out in the field in front of me, enjoying a good smoke (me, not the cows)... It helped make my weekend.
Griff
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Yeah, I think it's sad they're sort of goin away. I remeber when all the liquer stores had pipe cleaners and filters at the counter. Don't see that anymore, no call fer em. A pipe sure does smell better than any other smoke (ceptin for a Backwoods ceegar).
There's something extra relaxing about it ya don't get from a Marlboro.
Leo
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Ho, Coloradian.
The weed stuff is just a l’il thing known as ‘thread drift’. Even happens on respectable boards. Ain’t no thing.
Nothin’ ta be scared of. Look ‘round in Tall Tales might find ya like it here. Watch out fer that moderator Slim fellah. He’s a tough one. Wants ta outlaw Velveeta.
Any respectable thread in Tall Tales will drift. If it doesn't it ain' no good to begin with. 8)
Around here, all conversations will eventually either turn to weed or poop. ;D
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You fellas remember that store that was always in every mall you went to? The Tinder Box I think it was. Place smelled SO GOOD! They had some really neat stuff there and some great pipe tobacco blends. It was the only pipe tobacco other Captain Black that didn't burn my tongue.
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‘Round here it was To-Bac. Fine pipe blends. All cigars in humidors. Pipes of all descriptions and prices. Some of the prettiest chess sets ya ever wanted to see, I have two from there. The stores are long gone.
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Around here, all conversations will eventually either turn to weed or poop. ;D
Yup! I'm too pooped to weed my garden! ;D
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You fellas remember that store that was always in every mall you went to? The Tinder Box I think it was. Place smelled SO GOOD! They had some really neat stuff there and some great pipe tobacco blends. It was the only pipe tobacco other Captain Black that didn't burn my tongue.
We had a Tinder Box. Bought a ciggarette case there an thought I was the cat's pj's. They sold knives an stuff in there too. An yeah, it smelled like heaven.
Leo
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We had a Tinder Box. Bought a ciggarette case there an thought I was the cat's pj's. They sold knives an stuff in there too. An yeah, it smelled like heaven.
Leo
Me too, in a real tortoise shell with matching lighter. Made by Collibri, I think. I wonder where that thing has gone? Made ya' feel like you were Bond, James Bond. Course it didn't help I was ugly, but I thought I had class.
Arcey, I remember those chess sets, I could never afford them then and didn't have anywhere to put them. Now I collect them and have over 12 sets but none as nice as some of the ones in there.
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‘Round here it was To-Bac. Fine pipe blends. All cigars in humidors. Pipes of all descriptions and prices. Some of the prettiest chess sets ya ever wanted to see, I have two from there. The stores are long gone.
"To-Bac" wasn't he a Vulcan on Star Trek Voyager? ??? ??? (Talk about 'thread drift’) ::) ::) ;D
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I thought he was that rapper guy that got shot dead in Vegas but then kep mysteriously puttin out albums ;D
(drifting off the shore line now...)
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I think that was Tu Poc the non-life saving cousin of Ka Poc. ??? ::) (I think we’d better quit before someone thinks this thread isn’t just adrift, but may have been hijacked ! ;D ;D ;D
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(I think we’d better quit before someone thinks this thread isn’t just adrift, but may have been hijacked ! ;D ;D ;D
Pipes are good. I like to smoke them ;)
(There ya go, back on track)
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I may still have to look around for the right pipe. My wife used to like the smell of pipe smoke, (I'll have to go on a fishing trip to see what blend it was).
(That should get the other set of wheels back on the other rail!!
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Well, hell, boys, I was just gettin' ready to put my canoe in the water! "Drifting aloooong, with the tumbling tumbleweed."
There, now we have drift AND weed. Speaking of tumbling.....never mind. I'm paddling back to shore now.
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I have a couple of period-looking briars that I occasionally fill up with Half & Half and fire up. Twain said, "A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to put in his mouth." When I'm at an event and don't want to smoke filtered cigarettes, it's nice to have something to put in my mouth ;D
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For those who wish to enhance their persona, Period Correct pipes will include straight or bent stems and bowls of almost any hardwood - briar (of course) and the fruit trees: apple, cherry, even pear. Folks have tried almost any wood, with varying results. Oily woods are to be avoided. Do not overlook the southern favorite, the corncob! Clay pipes, whilst popular with Voyageurs, Rondy-types, and early 1800's taverns, grew out of popular favor after the Civil War. Possibly due to the fragile nature. Meerschaum pipes ( Sea Stone) are a wonderful smoke and highly prized.
Smoking mixtures of the era might be a cavendish, burly, turkish or Virginia tobacco, or any blend. Aromatics like cherry and vanilla ought to be avoided, but whiskey and rum had been used in curing amongst the non-indians for quite a while.
Speaking of our Native Brethren, the so-called Kinnikinnick or 'Bear-berry' was widely smoked by Voyageurs and Native Americans during the Fur-Trade eras . Technically a blend of native herbs ( no wacky weed!) it usually included Bear-berry, tobacco, red willow bark, and others. Native-grown tobacco was usually only air-dried (not fermented or cured) and was often higher in nicotine content.
My Lahkota brothers have taught me Tobacco has always been considered one the the Four Sacred Herbs by Native Americans. An "everyday" smoking mixture and pipe should not be confused with sacred ceremonial Canupa (or Chanupa or Calumet) (pipes made from red pipestone) and the sacred Chansasha tobacco.
Aho Mitakuye Oyasin
Prof Marvel
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Thank you, Professor. Can't imagine what it'd've taken for me to deliberately set out to learn so much detail. And the tuition is free!
This belongs in CASCity Historical Society.
Nice work.
BP
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Ok folks I found this in my archives, I guess a pipe was part of my formative years. Me, our dog Casey, my pipe and my Dad’s hammer. Alas, the only thing I still have is that same hammer. Lost the dog and pipe many years ago!
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Howdoo Coloradian ,
I smokum a pipe , and cigarettes too , double fisted too if I could firgure out how not to spill my coffee doing them both at the same time , loves my Bacco ! ;D
I smoke some of the fienst money can buy , Flying Dutchman and shoot it out of my straight shaft Dr. Grabo "Aristocrat" Brierwood smoke pole with Grabo filters too . Matter of factly my Dad bought me two pounds of that fine stuff in April for my Birthday again in this year. I love my Dad ! He knows what I like and at $70 a can , that's a great gift for my enjoyment whilst gunsmitthing my revolvers . I only smoke pipe when I work on my guns . So I try to work on guns allot ! ;D Smooth and relaxing , unlike me ;D
Pipe smokers are a dying breed , hee hee , but were few and far between nowadays . I useually get " Oooohh that smells good " when I light up if anyones around . Only if they really knew how enjoying it is ;D
Sincerely, ALabama