The 1st Annual Ken Collins Exchange.

[clueless]

I am totally overwhelmed! The box was here when I got home today. Wow! I will finally have to get mycam working to show everybody this treasure trove! Here's the list:

Great new Peterson bent. Great looking bent with silver band. Already being christened with it's first bowl.

3 CAO Premium Cigars - 2 Gold and 1 Italia

Pipe tool

Custom handmade tamper

9 (THAT'S RIGHT NINE) tins of tobacco

Petersons Sherlock Holmes - now opened and in the new Pete

Dunhill Royal Yacht

Butera Pelican

C&D Exhausted Rooster

GLP Charing Cross

Ashton Artisans Blend

Captain Earle Ten Russians

GLP Quiet Nights

GLP Chelsea Morning

And I thought we decided not to have a box pass. This is Great! Thanks, whoever you are. Sure made my month!

 

[Frost]

Excellent haul there, o clueless one. The Ken Collins appreciation society has performed quite admirably. Bravo.

 

[Centurian 803]

Got my package today before going to work on night shift. Turned an otherwise really bad day into a great one.
As you can see, quite a haul. Two 50g tins of Dunhill mixtures I have been wanting to try, a tin of Escudo, two Peterson offerings (Irish Flake and Peterson's Perfect Plug) and a tin of McBaren's Navy Flake. Fluffy and Bristly pipe cleaners and a wonderful Johs pipe, the bowl of which easily swallows my entire thumb. That should make a great flake pipe!

I am :shock: and ! The only problem is I prolly won't get much sleep today. I'll be too busy trying out that new pipe and one of those wonderful flakes. Good thing I have the rest of the night to decide which one.

Thank you seems so inadequate for such a generous gift! :cheers:

Long live Ken's spirit of generosity and caring.

 

[Carlos]

More great bombs. I see all these tins and wonder if I have any of that open. I need to clean the cellar really good.

 

[Blackhorse]

A beautiful pipe and an excellent lineup to smoke in it. You're right...that would turn a bad day into a good one.

 

[MisterE]

Mmmmmm, Irish Flake!! :cheers: :cheers:

 

[Blackhorse]

So - is that all of the packages? Is this 'glory days' event over? What a fantastic series of blockbusters this has been. major kudos to one and all. Makes me humble and proud at the same time!

 

[Carlos]

I think we need some more pics, if possible. Something to drool over.

 

[Blackhorse]

How about a '71 426 Hemi Cuda Convertible?

 

[Centurian 803]

:drool: :drool: :drool:

 

[Carlos]

Nice. But that's not a 1971 Hemi Cuda. Has a lot of the styling. Recent concept car I suppose. No doubt more affordable than an original in any kind of running condition, seeing as how there were 7 convertibles that year and two of those were 4 speeds.

 

[MisterE]

Hey, Happy May Day, guys!!!

´Tis Ken Collins Day officially I believe....

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

 

[Blackhorse]

See - you can't trust Google...but you CAN trust a BoB!

 

[Carlos]

Hey, Happy May Day, guys!!!

´Tis Ken Collins Day officially I believe....

:cheers: :cheers: :cheers: :cheers:

WOOHOO!!!

 

[puros_bran]

Guys, I want to personally thank each and every one of you that participated and made this something special...

I haven't been home for more than a couple hours in over a month but things will start slowing down shortly.. When they do I will go back through and try to determine a winner.

 

[mark]

Looks like they're all winners,,,a very generous group indeed,,,

 

[Blackhorse]

Little footnote here:

I took the lovely little Erik (what I'll call 'nosedive grain') panel as my pipe of choice to an event my wife's company puts on at Lake Tahoe, NV. A number of folks commented on it (this has happened very rarely) and of course many of the ladies made comments about the pipe smoking thing in general (never had a lady tell me she didn't like pipes, etc.). So overall it was a solid hit, and of course it smoked like a CHAMP!

I took GLP's jackKnife Plug, Gawaith Sweet Whiskey Twist and Brown Twist Sliced as my 'weeds of choice'. I was not hurtin' for goodness!

 

[puros_bran]

I think I actually get to go home today guys..
Woohoo!

Review and box out ASAP after that.

 

[puros_bran]

And the winner is??????

As stated earlier, we are all winners for having got to spend eTime with Ken, and ALL the packages were awesome in a box (literally) .. but For cheerleading over and above the call of duty... BLACKHORSE!!!!

Be watching your mailbox bro.. theres a lil something going out tonight.

 

[Carlos]

WOOHOO!! 8)​