Guess the pipe smoker -

[12toneman]

i've got one for you:

 

[Kashmir]

Hey tonerman, you gotta answer one before you post another! Rule is rules.

C'mon adventure, crystal skull, Harrison Ford ... Jungle.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Well, not exactly. See in my man cave / garage or cold smokin den I'm surrounded by some dozens of famous pipe smokers. When I pipe I like to look over them, read their biographies, and late at night I've even been known to have extended conversations with them. The dead make for fine company.

This whole post made my day.

 

[Kashmir]

Thanks Kyle! My kids call the garage The Mortuary. On account all 88 pics are of dead pipe smokers. I'm quick to point out most died in their 80s. Happy pipers one and all. That's the thing. Back then folks would pipe all day. No work interruptions cause you can smoke at work. Ten to fifteen bowls a day from my readings. Yet all sturdy chaps. Fit enough to die in the trenches of WWI and fit enough to fight through Normandy all the way to Berlin. The pipe was part & parcel to that experience. Those fortunate to make it back home often lived well into their 80s pipin thru the day. That's the purpose of this thread. To honor and find inspiration on those men. And you all thought it was a board game. Jeeze.

 

[12toneman]

Hey tonerman, you gotta answer one before you post another! Rule is rules.

C'mon adventure, crystal skull, Harrison Ford ... Jungle.

oh, shucks, I got Jacques Tati...just didn't want to ruin it for the boys!

looks like a monsieur on vacation.

 

[Kashmir]

OK. My bad. Carry on!

 

[monbla256]

This one's for all the Mystery/Detective lovers:

 

[Trifecta13]

That appears to be Raymond Chandler. One of my favorite noir mystery writers. I highly recommend Farewell, My Lovely for those interested.

 

[monbla256]

Yeah trifecta13 :cheers: Now another of the classic literati:

 

[Vito]

I just found this thread. Way cool! 8)

I recognized Tom Crean right away, but I have an unfair advantage, having read nearly every book about Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition. It's one of the most amazing stories of all time. What a shame that most of Frank Hurley's photos were lost.

Yep. I just love that photo. The man himself!
Boy, these are too easy. Then again, if they're too hard the thread dies prematurely. Hmmmm. OK, let's try this one. Think Adventure.

F. A. Mitchell-Hedges.

This one's for all the Mystery/Detective lovers:

Raymond Chandler.

So, if I understand the rules, I get to post one now, right? Here's one...and this guy most definitely was NOT a hero. In fact, he was a lying sleaze bag, vastly admired in his own time, but since then has become notorious by anyone who knows anything about history. (HINT: A famous pipe mixture is associated with this jerk.)

:joker:

p.s. I didn't see Trifecta13's post before I posted this.

 

[Vito]

Yeah trifecta13 :cheers: Now another of the classic literati:

Kipling.

"And a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a Smoke."

:joker:

 

[Kashmir]

Yes, yes, yes Mr. Vito! Good going man on F. A. Mitchell-Hedges. Hey Vito - is that Neville Chamberlain?

 

[Vito]

Yes, yes, yes Mr. Vito! Good going man on F. A. Mitchell-Hedges. Hey Vito - is that Neville Chamberlain?

You're very close, Brothah Kashmir...but no.

This is Chamberlain, with his "friend"...another criminal:

Chamberlain was a pipe smoker, but photos of him with a pipe are rare. Here's one:

:joker:

 

[Kashmir]

They both look fit enough to face the firing squad.

 

[lowflyingpenguin]

Earl Stephen Baldwin

 

[Vito]

They both look fit enough to face the firing squad.

Chamberlain's enablement of Hitler's murderous rampage into Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938 would easily have qualified him for the firing squad under Mosaic law (an eye for an eye). His refusal to acknowledge the crimes Hitler had been committing extended back before he became Prime Minister, when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, and refused any budget request that included rearmament...even to match Hitler's illegal rearmament, let alone exceed it.

The other pipe smoker (depicted earlier) was no less criminally irresponsible than Chamberlain (another hint). He had pledged (on the record, in the House of Commons), never to let Germany's air force surpass that of Great Britain. In March 1935 he insisted that the RAF had a superiority of 50% over the Luftwaffe. He lied. At the time he made that pledge, the Luftwaffe already surpassed the RAF by a factor of at least three.

Neither one of them were men with whom I would have enjoyed sharing a bowl. :no:

:joker:

 

[Vito]

Earl Stephen Baldwin

Close enough. It was Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1924-1929, and again from 1935-1937, although he actually became de facto Prime Minister in 1931 when Ramsay MacDonald (Labour Party...code for "socialist") was nominally the P.M., but was actually Baldwin's puppet. Baldwin was Chamberlain's immediate predecessor at 10 Downing Street.

Baldwin was a staunch advocate of appeasement. Perhaps his most notorious accomplishment was allowing Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland—a Nazi bluff that easily could have been stopped with virtually no bloodshed. Had the Brits (...and the French, who were equally complicit in their cowardice in the name of "peace") done so, Hitler (according to his own generals' testimony after WW 2) would have been toppled from power then and there, and the war likely never would have happened.

The "Earl" thing was a title after his retirement, when the king named him Earl Baldwin of Bewdley and Viscount of Corvedale. The Brits used to do that with their famous retired political hacks. I dunno whether they still do...perhaps one of our Brit brethren can enlighten us on that point.

Oh...and the weedular blend associated with Mr. Baldwin is Presbyterian Mixture. One can't be sure it's the same now as it was then, but if so, at least he had good taste in pipeweed. :mrgreen:

:joker:

 

[Kashmir]

Wow! Vito you know your history! I've recently been plowing through William L. Shirer's magnum opus The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

 

[monbla256]

They were as one in their work:

 

[Vito]

...I've recently been plowing through William L. Shirer's magnum opus The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

Yup...I know it well—a superb work. In fact, I plan to read it again soon.

I'm currently devouring William Manchester's The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill...my second time for the first two volumes, which is why much of this stuff is fresh in my mind. The third and final volume (completed by Paul Reid at the request of his mentor, Mr. Manchester, who was unable to finish the work before his death) wasn't published until 2012. November. So, I'm going back to the beginning to get the full flavor of the work before I dive into Volume 3 for the first time.

I swear...the doggone book reads like a novel, and it's all the more gripping because it's actual history. It whitewashes nothing, revealing Churchill and his contemporaries with all their warts, as well as their more positive attributes. The author's research is unimpeachable. In fact, in Volume 2 (Alone 1932-1940) he often cites William L. Shirer, who was a correspondent for Universal News Service and CBS in the prewar years. and remained a CBS correspondent throughout the war.

I must say that it is always a pleasure to find a weed brothah who appreciates the value and importance of history. As George Santayana wrote, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Alas, I haven't found any evidence that Santayana was a pipe smoker. :mrgreen:

:joker: