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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 1, 2018 16:15:49 GMT -5
I'm reasonably certain this topic has been done to death in the past on this forum, but I am by nature lazy...
So, who initially influenced/inspired you to take up the pipe?
For myself, my memory is a bit nebulous and lost to time... cinema must have played a part... Jimmy Stewart in "It's a Wonderful Life", Santa Claus and, of course, "Der Bingle" in "Holiday Inn" and it's lesser remake "White Christmas".
As a teenager, my influence was a dear friend who, in turn, was influenced by reading Tolkien. For some, it might have been a kindly grandfather or uncle (or perhaps an aunt?)
Yours?
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Post by Matthew on Feb 1, 2018 16:21:08 GMT -5
For me it was Bing,but not his movies.Now don't get me wrong,
I LOVE his movies.Especially "White Christmas".But I grew up
watching the Minute Maid commercials,and Bing kicked back in
a hammock with his pipe and drink was/is the epitomy of class.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 16:21:29 GMT -5
My Uncle Dave. A Spanish-American War veteran, he smoked cobs and Granger exclusively. As a child, it did not escape my notice that Popeye, Frosty the Snowman and Pa Kettle were fond of cobs too.
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Post by JDunbar on Feb 1, 2018 18:08:27 GMT -5
I began to get tired of how cigars more or less all tasted the same to me, tried a pipe and a few different tobacco's for the first time and have been hooked ever since.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Feb 1, 2018 18:35:38 GMT -5
my great-great-great-grandmother, Margaret Ann Kenney's photo, which I inherited since I was named after her. I just always thought it was so cool she smoked a pipe. She's infamous in the family.
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Post by username on Feb 1, 2018 19:30:21 GMT -5
Was cheaper than cigars.
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Post by zambini on Feb 1, 2018 19:39:44 GMT -5
The reason why I started pipe smoking again is that years ago I cleaned up my great uncles house after he died and kept some odds and ends I found there. After a few years of the pipes gathering dust I figured I'd either throw them out or take up smoking.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2018 19:40:49 GMT -5
Sherlock Holmes was a major influence, but I believe I started at 15 because my older brother and his political group looked so collegiate smoking theirs.
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Post by haebar on Feb 1, 2018 21:35:47 GMT -5
My dad smoked them and I was also influenced by Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by antb on Feb 2, 2018 1:43:37 GMT -5
Grandfather was a tobacco farmer and pipe smoker. Dad a pipe smoker before switching to cigs. A real Scotsman, my neighbour about 10 years ago, gifted me a pipe and some decent tobacco and I'gradually switched from cigs to pipes.
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Post by steveinny on Feb 2, 2018 5:31:24 GMT -5
Fred MacMurray puffing away on "My Three Sons".
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Post by Darin on Feb 2, 2018 6:01:04 GMT -5
My Uncle Frank and also my best friend's father who was the Scout Leader both smoked pipes. My parents both smoked cigs and I vowed to never touch those vile sticks.
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Post by colorduke on Feb 2, 2018 7:23:34 GMT -5
My dads friend Ol Jim,I have never seen him without a pipe since I can remember.In the summer months if I see him on the porch puffing I'll stop in and have a smoke with him.Jim to me is Old School ,1 pipe and 1 tobacco.When the pipe is shot he gets a new one.
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Post by danno44 on Feb 2, 2018 7:49:05 GMT -5
To stop smoking cigarettes and inhaling. It took a while, 2 years, but as of April 25th of last year, I quit the cigs completely.
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Post by briarpipenyc on Feb 2, 2018 12:44:28 GMT -5
My dad, may he rest in peace, smoked a pipe while serving in WW-ll. He was in the Coast Guard. As a kid I saw some pictures of him smoking his pipe wearing his full-dress uniform. I wanted to be that man! Years later, I fell in love with the aroma of fresh and smoldering pipe tobaccos. Back then, many guys smoked a pipe (late 50s early 60s) and sniffing great aromatic tobaccos coming from some gent's pipe was easy. Just walk on any sidewalk, and you'd get that whiff.
Turned 16 years old and begged ma and pa for permission to suck on the end of a briar pipe. Doing it since, on and off....now I'm 68 years old.
Time goes by fast.
Frank
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Post by crapgame on Feb 3, 2018 9:04:45 GMT -5
Some older gent at church was the reason why i picked up the pipe. I was 10 when I noticed Jim smoking a pipe and thought pipe smoking was something special. Jim was this older guy that was.involved in everything at church. He would always have a smile on his face and a pipe in his mouth at every church function. Jim talked way too fast and mumbled all the time,not sure if it was a medical condition or not... anyway Jim love the kids and we loved him too. After Mass you would see Jim outside the doors with a bunch of kids surrounding him laughing with him over some story he was telling that none of us understood, we just loved sitting around him and he loved story telling. I know several of us boys bought pipes when we could pass for 18 and would sit with him after church smoking out pipes.
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Post by pappyjoe on Feb 3, 2018 9:39:49 GMT -5
The only grandfather I knew smoked a pipe. His favorite blend was George Washington.
The other influences were a couple of old Chiefs on my first unit - an icebreaker. They would put their Arctic weather gear on - big green coats with fur lined hoods - and stand on deck as we broke ice in the Bering Sea. The Captain was a cigar smoker and was the only one allowed to smoke on the bridge.
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Post by Dramatwist on Feb 3, 2018 14:16:57 GMT -5
Some older gent at church was the reason why i picked up the pipe. I was 10 when I noticed Jim smoking a pipe and thought pipe smoking was something special. Jim was this older guy that was.involved in everything at church. He would always have a smile on his face and a pipe in his mouth at every church function. Jim talked way too fast and mumbled all the time,not sure if it was a medical condition or not... anyway Jim love the kids and we loved him too. After Mass you would see Jim outside the doors with a bunch of kids surrounding him laughing with him over some story he was telling that none of us understood, we just loved sitting around him and he loved story telling. I know several of us boys bought pipes when we could pass for 18 and would sit with him after church smoking out pipes. Great story. |
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Post by PhantomWolf on Feb 3, 2018 14:31:14 GMT -5
I started smoking pipe ironically. As a teen, I was in a punk band and I wore a lot of old suits from Goodwil. Flat caps, pocket watches.. Stuff like that- Pipe just seemed like the perfect, ridiculous accessory. Turned out that I really liked it and after some years hiatus, I took it back up non-ironically. haha
I should add that I have loved everything Sherlock Holmes since I was a kid and that was a big influence as well.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 8:38:30 GMT -5
My Father and Grandfather owned 1400 acres of tobacco land in Ky. In the 60's. My Grandfather smoked pipes.
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Post by flyinmanatee on Feb 4, 2018 13:46:13 GMT -5
I began to get tired of how cigars more or less all tasted the same to me, tried a pipe and a few different tobacco's for the first time and have been hooked ever since. Ha..same thing different reason..cigars being too good and too $$$..went from one on the weekend to craving two a day-high vitamin N ligeros. Figured I'd try and slow down with a bowl. |
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Post by billyklubb on Feb 4, 2018 16:19:45 GMT -5
cinema and literature probably played a big part. random folks I'd seen smoking pipe in public when I was a kid. when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade, I briefly had a friend whose mom smoked a pipe. I'm pretty sure that was the only reason I hung around. from memory, I'm pretty sure she smoked Captain Black and some cherry blend. I loved the smell and how she just sat in her chair, reading a book or the paper, smoking that pipe. I'm pretty sure that could have been a big influence.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2018 17:19:57 GMT -5
My Father and Grandfather owned 1400 acres of tobacco land in Ky. In the 60's. My Grandfather smoked pipes. I always loved driving by or riding by the tobacco fields |
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Post by trailboss on Feb 4, 2018 21:46:31 GMT -5
My grandfather on my mom’s side and my uncle Earl on my dad’s side smoked pipes, and they were generally thoughtful quiet men.... I never equated it with the pipe though until I met Indian Jim, and when I met him, all my dad’s Army buddies were loud and raucous by comparison.
Prior to meeting Jim, my dad told me “Don’t screw with Jim, he can kill you 20 ways with a shoelace”... later on I found out he was a green beret and involved in “project eldest son” behind enemy lines. He had a BAR rifle, Thompson mg, along with an armory...when I asked if the grenades he had hanging from the wall were live, he told me “everything works here” and gave a wink. While all the other GI’s were raising hell and having a good time, he drank just a few beers while smoking his pipe, and being.... the quiet man of the bunch....pretty impressionable guy. I wish I knew his last name, and could travel back in time...
It wasn’t until I stumbled into a Tinderbox in Mountain View, Ca. many years later though before I picked up my first pipe, a small figural Arabic faced meer and “North Sea” tobacco (Stokkebye nougat) that became my go to smoke for quite awhile.
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Post by Artistik on Feb 5, 2018 7:36:10 GMT -5
My grandfather. He only smoked Edgeworth and only bought drug store briar pipes. Wish I had his pipes!
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