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Post by crapgame on Dec 24, 2016 16:09:02 GMT -5
I was going some old books and stuff trying to keep myself busy so I don't go stir crazy with this back and leg issue I have been going through and boy did I find a real treasure!!! You may ask what could be so exciting in some old boxes of books,papers,tablets and other debris? Well I found my " Smokey Pleasure Book" I started in 1985 when I was 16 and just started pipe smoking! All I can say is my taste has changed in many ways since then and I have to laugh at how I described some tobacco back then! I am going to post the "reviews" as they are written in my tablet on "Tobacco Reviews" along with a current review of the same tobacco. I see this being some good fun and also a way to view how my taste in tobacco is maturing. So look for some of the silly remarks that came from a 16 year old kid after his first time smoking "Five Brothers" when the Boy scout Leader said to me "here try some Grown-up tobacco kid ,not that candy flavored kid stuff."
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Post by papipeguy on Dec 24, 2016 16:52:42 GMT -5
I suspect that nearly all of us have changed our choices since we started pipe smoking. I know I have and I'm still learning about blends and pipes. That is the fun part of doing this.
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Post by bluesguy on Dec 24, 2016 18:05:35 GMT -5
I hope you got a merit badge for handling Five Brothers at age 16. Your Scout leader gave you some good practical advice.
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Post by crapgame on Dec 24, 2016 18:21:40 GMT -5
I hope you got a merit badge for handling Five Brothers at age 16. Your Scout leader gave you some good practical advice. Got a demerit for puking at the campfire! I saw that his son not only smoked Five Brothers as well but CHEWED the stuff as well!! |
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Post by peterd-Buffalo Spirit on Dec 25, 2016 11:24:48 GMT -5
...my first experience with the "brothers" was in '63 at 12 years old...along with Red Cap(in the cotton pouch)and still today smoke them both a few times a year...
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Post by Motto on Dec 26, 2016 12:34:11 GMT -5
G'Eve, happy days ! I missed out on tobacco in my youth & did not start until my twenties, I do not think I was ever young in a way, as an only son & elder brother to one sister, I always sided with my elders & authority figures, that's life , such is life as they say down south. But I remember well the adventures of Tom Sawyer & fun Huck' Finn, from my night time youthful reading. Bye.
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Post by Motto on Dec 26, 2016 19:01:31 GMT -5
G'day, thinking how I came to smoke a pipe, none of my local or Grammar school pals smoked at all & it was in my late teens & at University some friends of friends would smoke pot but it never caught on with my pals. Then away at college one of my Uni student pals smoked a pipe regularly which I thought was a solid and reliable as he was ,as a metallurgy student, but a lone pipe smoker. After college I came across my favourite Uncles ( from my early years who emigrated to Canada with his wife), his old pipe & empty tins of Balkan Sobranie, he was a soldier in the War, (but my Dad was a sailor in the war but never smoked), & I tried some OTC Troost tobacco in my Uncle's old pipe, & smoked regularly but lightly for years in my local pub & club, the only pipe smoker in my circle of friends, it had died out in those years,the mid 70's onwards locally, & I do not recall even seeing another pipe smoker for many years. A dying habit amongs the cigarette smokers generally. Most young people are horrified by my pipe smoking & think it most eccentric & strange & wicked even. But happy smoking guys & gals,
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Post by Baboo on Dec 26, 2016 19:09:32 GMT -5
When I was 10 years old I would smoke dried out tree stems. When I turned 13 I smoked filterless Lucky Stikes, Chesterfields, and Camels. Always loved the taste and odors of tobacco... quit cigs 30+ years ago, but cigars and pipes NOT. I don't inhale but I snorke and retro hale like a fiend.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Dec 27, 2016 12:07:15 GMT -5
I was going some old books and stuff trying to keep myself busy so I don't go stir crazy with this back and leg issue I have been going through and boy did I find a real treasure!!! You may ask what could be so exciting in some old boxes of books,papers,tablets and other debris? Well I found my " Smokey Pleasure Book" I started in 1985 when I was 16 and just started pipe smoking! All I can say is my taste has changed in many ways since then and I have to laugh at how I described some tobacco back then! I am going to post the "reviews" as they are written in my tablet on "Tobacco Reviews" along with a current review of the same tobacco. I see this being some good fun and also a way to view how my taste in tobacco is maturing. So look for some of the silly remarks that came from a 16 year old kid after his first time smoking "Five Brothers" when the Boy scout Leader said to me "here try some Grown-up tobacco kid ,not that candy flavored kid stuff."
I find this extremely interesting, as I have wanted to start a pipe smoking journal. I haven't taken the plunge yet, because I am mildly OCD and need to find the "perfect" journal book, then I'm not sure exactly how to lay it out. Would you mind sharing a couple photos of the book? I am looking forward to some of the entries you share with us.
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Post by crapgame on Jan 1, 2017 10:37:37 GMT -5
I will post some of my notes from my "Smokey Pleasure Book" and compare how I feel about the blends now.. Here is one of them!
Just a look in to my "SPB" from 1987..
"I just bought a tin of squadron leader because the can looks really cool and I can't wait to try it! YUCK!!!!!!! WHAT IS THIS CRAP? This tastes like old rotten tree bark and gonesh incense mixed together!!!! "
Just a note...I still cant stand this tobacco..I tried it again in early 2001 and it was worse than I remember!
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Post by Lady Margaret on Jan 1, 2017 12:09:45 GMT -5
I will post some of my notes from my "Smokey Pleasure Book" and compare how I feel about the blends now.. Here is one of them! Just a look in to my "SPB" from 1987.. "I just bought a tin of squadron leader because the can looks really cool and I can't wait to try it! YUCK!!!!!!! WHAT IS THIS CRAP? This tastes like old rotten tree bark and gonesh incense mixed together!!!! " Just a note...I still cant stand this tobacco..I tried it again in early 2001 and it was worse than I remember!
that is funny! some things change, some remain the same, lol.
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Post by qmechanics on Mar 9, 2019 15:09:31 GMT -5
Interesting... I wonder how many others keep a pipe journal or remember how much their habits have changed? When I first started I began with aromatics, especially enjoying cherry blends. The tongue bite was horrid until I changed my pipe smoking rhythm. Today non-aromatics dominate, though recently I have been enjoying a few automatics (Mostly lightly topped blends that allow the natural flavors to come through.) from time to time.
Generally I am not sure my 16 year old self would recognize me today. Even so a number of traits still remain the same or similar as one's personality is only so fluid.
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Post by jpberg on Mar 9, 2019 15:35:10 GMT -5
Where were you getting SL in the eighties?
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Post by Stearmandriver on Mar 9, 2019 15:41:10 GMT -5
This'll be interesting, please do share!
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Post by Cramptholomew on Mar 9, 2019 15:45:57 GMT -5
16 year old me observing me now: "who's that fat weirdo making pipes in his garage? He's eating all this nasty weird food. And, he works on computer stuff for a living? Gawsh, I hope I don't turn out like that guy..."
Yeah, this wasn't about my tobacco tastes changing, which they have, but I thought it was apropos.
Aros, to crossovers, to everything else.
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Post by jackdiamond on Mar 9, 2019 15:47:41 GMT -5
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 9, 2019 15:50:57 GMT -5
I have changed a little. I am 100 lbs heavier, I no longer have thick black hair, and I am not as nice to idiots. And at 16 I would have taken a blood oath that I would never use any kind of tobacco.
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Post by sperrytops on Mar 9, 2019 16:24:14 GMT -5
Crapgame, can't wait to read the reviews.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2019 16:30:36 GMT -5
Leave it to qmechanics👌👍👍. I have nothing to add, and won’t. But an interesting thread.
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Post by Lady Margaret on Mar 9, 2019 16:30:56 GMT -5
Interesting... I wonder how many others keep a pipe journal or remember how much their habits have changed? When I first started I began with aromatics, especially enjoying cherry blends. The tongue bite was horrid until I changed my pipe smoking rhythm. Today non-aromatics dominate, though recently I have been enjoying a few automatics (Mostly lightly topped blends that allow the natural flavors to come through.) from time to time. Generally I am not sure my 16 year old self would recognize me today. Even so a number of traits still remain the same or similar as one's personality is only so fluid. sounds a lot like how i started. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 9, 2019 16:34:07 GMT -5
My 16 year old self would say, "stop dredging up the past." 😉
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Post by qmechanics on Mar 9, 2019 16:58:25 GMT -5
My 16 year old self would say, "stop dredging up the past." 😉 Stop with the false protests, you know you love this!!😁 |
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 9, 2019 17:09:00 GMT -5
My 16 year old self would say, "stop dredging up the past." 😉 Stop with the false protests, you know you love this!!😁 I do... But I've got an image to protect. |
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Post by qmechanics on Mar 9, 2019 17:13:36 GMT -5
Stop with the false protests, you know you love this!!😁 I do... But I've got an image to protect. What image, being a ruthless moderator who cracks the whip to spread fear amongst the minions? Sorry that image was shattered long ago. 😁 |
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Post by Legend Lover on Mar 9, 2019 17:14:51 GMT -5
I do... But I've got an image to protect. What image, being a ruthless moderator who cracks the whip to spread fear amongst the minions? Sorry that image was shattered long ago. 😁 I don't think it was ever intact to begin with. |
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Post by chasingembers on Mar 9, 2019 17:47:09 GMT -5
I picked up my first pipe (Dr. Grabow Omega) and a pouch of Carter Hall at a Rite Aid in '91 to impress a clerk there named Amy. Good Lord I still remember those blue eyes.....😍 Anyway, still love and smoke Carter Hall.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2019 21:03:30 GMT -5
It's just too late to start a journal now.
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Post by unknownpipesmoker on Mar 9, 2019 21:08:41 GMT -5
That's the perfect way to describe Five Brothers. Tobacco for adults.
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Post by unknownpipesmoker on Mar 9, 2019 21:10:14 GMT -5
16 year old me observing me now: "who's that fat weirdo making pipes in his garage? He's eating all this nasty weird food. And, he works on computer stuff for a living? Gawsh, I hope I don't turn out like that guy..." Yeah, this wasn't about my tobacco tastes changing, which they have, but I thought it was apropos. Aros, to crossovers, to everything else. Aside from spiritual development, I haven't changed much since I was 16. I am not sure if that's good or bad. I'm like Dick Clark. |
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Post by Yohanan on Mar 9, 2019 21:25:19 GMT -5
When I pass wind, Bad things can happen that I can't control now...that's 16 + 40.  |
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