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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 26, 2019 23:13:05 GMT -5
That's why I wear an "S" on my chest made of smoke. Honestly, I cannot tell if he is joking or being serious No one has actually seen his chest because of all the smoke. |
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Post by cthulussong on Jan 26, 2019 23:38:51 GMT -5
Saruman the Wise...I know he’s a jerk, but made things interesting
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Post by monbla256 on Jan 26, 2019 23:48:20 GMT -5
Jean Gabin as Inspector Jules Maigret. He made 4 Maigret movies in France back in the mid/late '50s. Gabin looks as Simenon describes M aigret ( and Maigrets pipe and his smoking was refered to almost 4 times as much in the books and stories probably 4 times as much as Sherlock did. 
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Post by AJ on Jan 27, 2019 0:53:23 GMT -5
Sherlock Holmes played by Jeremy Brett. I like Basil Rathbone but it’s Brett that portrayed the character as Arthur Conan Doyle described him.
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Post by Dramatwist on Jan 27, 2019 2:16:49 GMT -5
It seems to be popularly believed that Ernest Hemingway smoked a pipe. He did not. I have formally studied Hemingway since 1975. After you first time this came up I studied up on it and discovered that you are absolutely correct. Hemingway thought tobacco was for losers. Hemingway didn't smoke at all. I think most folks see photos of William Faulkner, and think it's Hemingway. I, too, am a student of Hemingway... a member of "The Hemingway Society" and have been reading him since I was 18. |
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Post by toshtego on Jan 27, 2019 10:07:13 GMT -5
Raymond Chandler was a pipe smoker, as was his character, Philip Marlowe.
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 27, 2019 10:43:54 GMT -5
Saruman the Wise...I know he’s a jerk, but made things interesting If I didn't know better I would swear that you were my son. Your handle and comment sound exactly like him. Welcome to the Patch from Humble TX. |
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Post by LSUTigersFan on Jan 27, 2019 11:14:45 GMT -5
Raymond Chandler was a pipe smoker, as was his character, Philip Marlowe.
And a cat guy, so even more respect there! Not as cool as a dog guy, but it's still pretty cool in my book. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 27, 2019 12:36:17 GMT -5
Daniel Plainview portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis in the movie There Will Be Blood. Easily one of the best movies of the 21th century. An Oscar worthy story and performance.  And the movie posters are pretty darn cool too.  Here’s the trailer. If you’re a movie buff, this is a must see. If I'm correct, he's your avatar for Instagram, dave g. I never realised it was Daniel day Lewis... I actually thought that was you. 😳 |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Jan 27, 2019 13:05:28 GMT -5
 Non-Fictional Congresswoman from NJ she was the real deal!Millicent Fenwick 
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Post by sperrytops on Jan 27, 2019 13:50:30 GMT -5
I'd have to say Sherlock, too, though most others mentioned are also appreciated. I'll give you three guesses.  Arthur Conan Doyle and H. P. Lovecraft were/are my "guilty pleasures." And as an aside, the Sherlock Holmes series which aired many years ago on A&E with Jeremy Brett was the most faithful to the original stories and novels--and particularly accurate in its depiction of Dr. Watson. The Basil Rathbone productions were much like the more recent film versions. They borrow the character names, but that is about the only similarity. HPL is more of a guilty pleasure than Doyle. I enjoy reading both very much, but Doyle was a much better writer. Did Lovecraft smoke a pipe? I don't believe Lovecraft was a pipe smoker. He was always sickly, suffering from pneumonia and various breathing conditions. He died young from these. |
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Post by skeeter456 on Jan 29, 2019 19:06:48 GMT -5
Captain ahab! Or hook
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Post by kirk13 on Jan 29, 2019 19:33:36 GMT -5
Are there any Terry Pratchett fans in the house? I think Mustrum Ridcully,archchanceller of the Unseen University is a pipe smoker,but Nanny Ogg,witch extraordinaire definitely enjoys the pipe!
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 30, 2019 4:27:52 GMT -5
Are there any Terry Pratchett fans in the house? I think Mustrum Ridcully,archchanceller of the Unseen University is a pipe smoker,but Nanny Ogg,witch extraordinaire definitely enjoys the pipe! He's one of my favourite authors. There are still many books of his that I haven't yet read. I must get on to that. |
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Post by kirk13 on Jan 30, 2019 7:13:42 GMT -5
Are there any Terry Pratchett fans in the house? I think Mustrum Ridcully,archchanceller of the Unseen University is a pipe smoker,but Nanny Ogg,witch extraordinaire definitely enjoys the pipe! He's one of my favourite authors. There are still many books of his that I haven't yet read. I must get on to that. Buggerit Buggerit! Millennium hand and shrimp,I told 'em I did! |
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Post by dave g on Jan 30, 2019 7:25:14 GMT -5
Legend LoverYes that’s DDL on my Instagram avatar. And Kramer for the Patch avatar. Although I do occasionally drench my 19th century clothing in oil and smoke a pipe. My real ugly mug is posted in the “Show us your mug” thread. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 10:13:25 GMT -5
Inspector Maigret. His creator, also, George's Simenon. Same here. |
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Post by blackmouth210 on Jan 30, 2019 19:46:16 GMT -5
There are so many good pipe-smoking fictional characters. But there's one I put above them all.
Other characters may smoke their pipe more.
Others may involve their pipe in their work more.
But none can match the pure pipe-smoking cachet as that gentleman living at 221B Baker Street, London over 100 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 2:41:32 GMT -5
Seeing that I despise fiction, my answer is "none"
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Post by jpberg on Feb 1, 2019 11:09:10 GMT -5
Richard Hannay.
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Post by Darin on Feb 1, 2019 15:47:46 GMT -5
Seeing that I despise fiction, my answer is "none" Very interesting! So ... anything not based in reality?? What do you do about imagination and creativity? Inquiring minds want to know! |
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Post by sperrytops on Feb 1, 2019 15:57:28 GMT -5
Gandalf in The Hobbit smoked a pipe. Did Dumbledore in Harry Potter smoke one? I don't remember. However, my favorite will always be Sherlock.
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Post by chebi on Apr 3, 2022 18:18:23 GMT -5
Hey guys!
How about a true classic. Moby dick |Herman Melville.
One of my fauvorite books!
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Post by mgtarheel on Apr 4, 2022 12:37:27 GMT -5
Yosemite Sam
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Post by rastewart on Apr 4, 2022 13:49:42 GMT -5
Mammy Yokum and Moonbeam McSwine.  Well, I can agree with moonbeam mcswine anyway  . You have to be older than dirt like me, to remember them. |
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Post by rastewart on Apr 4, 2022 13:52:29 GMT -5
Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett, hands down favorite portrayal of Holmes). I've got to agree with you on that one. Best portrayal of Holmes in my book too. Maybe that's because I grew up with him playing Holmes. |
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Post by rastewart on Apr 4, 2022 13:58:17 GMT -5
Anyone remember "The Moomins"?
Snufkin was a favorite character:
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Post by rastewart on Apr 4, 2022 17:24:11 GMT -5
Probably my favorite well-established fictional pipe smoker would be, as many others have said, Sherlock Holmes.
But as a lifelong reader, daydreamer, and (off and on) writer, I am of that fellowship that inhabit partly our everyday world, partly a shadowy (but sometimes more real than real) world of dreams, imaginings, half-heard songs, and stories both written and unwritten. In that world dwells a fellow of indeterminate age, sometimes a young student following curious byways of the mind, sometimes an old scholar, sometimes somewhere in between, wandering down back streets where music and talk in many languages drift out the windows, or paths through autumn forests, the piquant smoke from an old briar pipe trailing always behind. He appears in many of those dreams, songs, poems, legends, and stories, sometimes as a protagonist or antagonist, sometimes as a stranger who whispers a word that changes everything, sometimes as an unnoticed figure at a corner table, nursing a bourbon and a smoldering bowl and listening to the band. He might be Lovecraft's Dr. Armitage, slipping away from the Miskatonic library to explore the great world. He might be a visitor from the October Country, or from the imaginings of that arcane old pipeman Arthur Machen; or some survivor, not quite immortal, of Middle-Earth. He might, at times, be some version of me.
In the end, it is in our own memories and imaginations that the best stories dwell.
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Post by wayne1963 on Aug 17, 2022 19:52:00 GMT -5
Huck Finn. I was a little younger than Huck when I read the story and it was easy to vicariously drift down the river with Jim.
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Arthur Conan Doyle and H. P. Lovecraft were/are my "guilty pleasures." And as an aside, the Sherlock Holmes series which aired many years ago on A&E with Jeremy Brett was the most faithful to the original stories and novels--and particularly accurate in its depiction of Dr. Watson. The Basil Rathbone productions were much like the more recent film versions. They borrow the character names, but that is about the only similarity.
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