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Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed...

The chill is gone outside, so I'm out on the patio smoking Straus Sleepy Hollow in a Jansen's bent volcano with vulcanite saddle stem...

That's too bad, because they make some attractive and affordable pipes. That's just another benefit of participating in BoB: learning...

I have an old pipe (a sav as well) that the finish is starting to fail. The pipe is 50 years old and has always been a favorite. You...

Another beautiful Fall day with increasing leaf color, so celebrating that with a bowl of Bluff Blend in a Savinelli Trevi 320EX. I...

Another good morning BoB, This morning I mixed some Sutliff Chocolate Mousse into my Lane Hazelnut to make it more palatable while I...

My beard grows in patchy and uneven. Plus wife doesn't like beards. Never tried to grow a full beard. Now that I'm retired I've settled...

I keep my beard somewhat trimmed short. My whiskers are gray and don’t want to cooperate.

I shave once or twice a week, whether I need to or not 🤣.

I'm between a saint and a professor per the beard chart on exhibit 1. Always keep beard trimmed to 1/8-1/4" or 4-6mm. Only shaved it off...

I just remembered I went to this barber once. He lite a match and waved around my ears to burn the hair off, I almost shit myself. He...

That’s hilarious and disturbing at the same time. 😂😂

Got a Turkish barber for my local one and he does the match/lighter trick for ear hair too. He also does a weird threading thing with...

I'm one of the few who has no facial foliage. My sons have experimented off and on, and my sons-in-law sport them; but at my advanced...

I like duck eggs too, I find they have more flavor and a bit gamey. I like gamey, its a good thing I reckon.(y)