What are you smoking?

[JimInks]

Off to run some errands with Jim’s B Blend in a smooth 1998 Parker 489 three quarter bend Billiard with a black vulcanite stem. Probably have more than one bowl of this.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Mac Baren Black Ambrosia - Savinelli [modified].

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of HU Old Fredder’s Broken Flake in a smooth straight early 1960s Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Simply Lemonade is my drink on this hot and humid day.

 

[JimInks]

About half way through this bowl of MacBaren Burley London Blend in a three quarter bend 1983 Jobey Danski 2 straight grain freehand rough top sitter with a pearl amber acrylic stem. Ice water and bergs is my evening drink on this hot and humid day. Had some Neapolitan ice cream during smokes.

 

[SourMilk]

SPC Mississippi River w/ iced tea

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking MacBaren Golden Extra in a 1983 medium bend, mostly smooth, bottom rusticated Butz-Choquin Maitre Pipier 3 Fait Main with pearl brown acrylic stem.

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Rotary Superior in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic stem. This will get me to dinner time. Braves-Yankees game is on. ESPN had the Red Sox-Nats.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful chicken parmesan dinner with a bowl of Newminster #403 Superior Round Sliced in a 1970s slight bend poker-like Caminetto business 134 with a pearl gold acrylic stem. About an hour from now, I'll have a freshly baked chocolate meringe pie, which is m'lady's present to me on our 29th wedding anniversary.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Amphora Virginia in a black sand blasted straight 1998 XXX Ashton lovat with a black acrylic stem. Had two slices of pie!

 

[PeterD]

...earlier...Sutliff J4 Burley...now,HH WhiteKnight in a Radice rind Bulldog...coffee on the side...

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of G&H Bright CR Flake Coconut in a 2013 bent MM Missouri Pride Legend with a yellow stem. Watching the Pirates-Dodgers game. All Dodgers so far.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2011 MacBaren Norwood in a 1981 Ascorti Black Billiard Business with a military bit and pearl gray acrylic stem.

 

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking D&R Two Timer Gold in a smooth full bend 1977 Crown Coachman 215 egg with a black vulcanite stem.

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is D&R Raccoon’s Delight in a smooth 1976 Canadian GBD Seventy Six 256 with a black vulcanite stem.

 

[PeterD]

...lots of errands this AM...earlier...Sutliff J4 Burley...then, SG 1792 Flake...now, WhiteKnight in a '13 gp.4 Dunhill Bruyere billiard...still coffee...

 

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking 2011 Villiger Virginia No. 444 in a smooth straight pre-transition Barling 313 T.V.F. EXEXEL pot with a black ebonite stem. Welch's Red Grape Juice is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem. Getting ready to run a few errands today.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Ancient Greece had the "State" and the "2 party in the Parliament" political system thousand years before other countries adopt it so back in 6th BC an "A" party man the Cleisthenes invented a way to "get rid off" his political opponents of the "B" party. According to the new system a complain even anonymous [!] by a citizen to another was enough for the Parliament and the Municipal Assembly to have a meeting to decide if "the regime was threatened by that man's activity and strength" and could contemned him to 10 years of exile without interrogation or apology [!] even if the man had no prior criminal record. Was enough for the procedure if 6000 votes were collected otherwise the meeting was over and the man was free to return back home. The votes were shells on which the citizen wrote the name of the man that was a candidate for an exile.
Thus the majority of the brilliant minds of Atheneans died in exile or in prison cause of that "system" with all the possessions to be pledged.
One day Aristides "the Just" was called and informed that was under a vote for an exile and as he got out from the building a poor man approach him and asked for a help, Aristides replied positive and the poor man gave him an empty shell and a graphida to engrave a name.

"Which name you want from me to engrave?"
"Aristides"
"Do you know this man?"
"No"
"So why you want for this person to be exiled?"
"Because i am tired to hear from all the other people to call him as: The Just"
"So this is the reason that you want to vote against him?"
"Yes"
Aristides shook his head with skepticism and have the shell to the poor man which went into the building to vote happy that he did his duty as a civilian and for the next 10 years he wouldn't hear anything for that "The Just" guy.


I am smoking Dan Pipe Jubilee 30 in a Design Berlin that what happened that day was the epitome of the word "Ingratitude".

 

[SourMilk]

SPC Mississippi River w/ a lime La Croix

 

[Richard Burley]

Smoking an old Charatan 2nd (I'm told) Canadian, refurbished by Walker Briar Works and filled with Painter Hills, a Revelation clone with probably more flavoring "sauce" than the original. But I like it a lot. Too bad it's one of 4Noggins's newly defunct blends, judging by its absence from the website. Have about 10 oz. left, then it becomes another memory.