What Are You Smoking - January 2017

Yes, it does. I own a few Charatan's and I think this is the best of them, and Dunbar thinks so, too!  When I finish the last ounce or more of this Dunbar, Director's Cut will be next.

Listing this a few minutes early: D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank Canadian Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 with a black vulcanite stem.

Now smoking Uhle’s Perfection Plug Burley in my old reliable 1986 smooth Peterson Kildare 999 Rhodesian with a black vulcanite p-lip stem. I'll likely finish my smoking day with this pipe. Suzy and Molly are sleeping after a hard day of doing nothing, so it's nice and quiet here.

Stan, my english are not good because i learn them by myself from books so i can't completely understand long posts especially with complex meaning.
Ancient Greeks had nothing to do for what the Romans did to the Christians. Keep in mind that the Francs and the Latins steal many treasures from Constantinople and later transferred back home and now the tourists pay to visit them without to know who's created them.
Socrates before his death said that God will send one day a man here in earth that he will speak about the love between people. Ancient Greeks conquered countries and established civilizations, the Romans ruled countries by the sword and only to collect taxes.The alphabet that you know now as "Latin" is the ancient alphabet of Kymi [Evia island] from 800 BC when the Greeks established colonies in South Italy.
Greeks knew and were using the sign of Cross much-much more earlier than the Christians and keep in mind that Christianity spread whole over the world via Greece.

Greek God Dionysus with a Cross
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Greek Holy infant [330 BC]
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Greek Crucified [320 BC]
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Keep in mind that Christ knew Greek language and spoke Greek when he was on Cross, his last word was the ancient Greek "τετελεσθαι" which still use it in our daily conversations here.

The Xstian Empire before Caesar & before Alexander, was the British Empire of the triune races, of Celtic (Briton), Gallic ( Europe) & Illyrian (Russia), ruled by the great wooden & stone cities of Britain on the Atlantic North, who fought with the Americas & Africa by sea & land, the little club med of the RAJ ( Rome, Athens & Jerusalem)grew powerful on the slaves of the Briton triune Empire.
Celtic Briton, before Caesar torched the wooden cities, in betrayal , & was bigger than Japan at its ancient Imperial height, & Gallic llyria as mighty as China, RAJ propaganda tells lies. If you read Caesar Gallic wars & read between the lies, you may appreciate some facts rather than propaganda & myth, but Ottoman lies keep you in the dark. But petty nationalism veils the international reality.
PS what remains of Aztec, Inca, Maya Empires , some ruins that will be recycled in a number of years ?
The Christian West of the triune Great Britain, Great Europe & Great Russia, should unite with our allies in America, in peace Britannia, for world peace. In harmony with Afro-Asia & the Americas. Let the tourists visit the RAJ & put their coins in their ancestors fountains, pax.

Couldn't sleep, so I'm smoking SWRA in a 1979 straight smooth Dr. Grabow Grand Duke 45 pot with a black stem. Simply Orange is my drink. Watching Have Gun, Will Travel.

Will be glad to see the end of this work day. Sturks' Nutty Unscented in MM Legend. Last of a liter of still water. Then home to a stiff Scotch and some CONDOR...

Just finished 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.

Good luck, Stan.

Now smoking Granger in the third pipe I ever bought ($1.95), a 1974 smooth straight French briar Hadley Apple with a black vulcanite stem. A bottle of Cheerwine is my drink.

Golden Days of Yore in a Peterson Silver Army Mount 999.

Just finished smoking Jim's Va/Bur in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, aluminum band and black ebonite stem.

Celts came to Greece 2 times, the won one battle only and lost the 2 Wars, especially the second was a disaster for them.They tried another 3 time in Ionia (Pergamos) but lost too. We celebrate those victories making statues but we depict them far more civilized [no bears, long hairs etc].
Here is one, it's a roman copy from the Greece but can get an idea:
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In Aitolia was the final battle, we call the place Kokkalia means Bones because is still full from bones from the dead Celts which in purpose kept them unburied. Women fought too that's why we make a statue with a woman sitting in Celt's shields. Vrennos their king commit suicide because was a desperate and humiliated loser.
Alexander the Great met Celts in Danube and they just talk, nothing else happened.
As a native Greek i don't think i own nothing to Celts, they didn't taught us anything at all and we don't copy from them anything in a contrary they commit terrible crimes in unarmed civilians [old people, women, babies] and we know those crimes with full details.
Please don't tell me now that they taught us Mathematics,Physics,Algebra,Architectonic,Philosophy,War techniques,how to built a ship etc! Tell me that they built Acropolis too and had two floor houses from marble as we had, tell me that they built a stadium and had Olympics before 776 BC that we invent them....

The earliest known reference to the inhabitants of Britain seems to come from 4th century BC records of the voyage of Pytheas, a Greek geographer who made a voyage of exploration around the British Isles between 330 and 320 BC. Although none of his own writings remain, writers during the time of the Roman Empire made much reference to them.
Pytheas called the islands collectively αἱ Βρεττανίαι (hai Brettaniai), which has been translated as the Brittanic Isles, and the peoples of these islands of Prettanike were called the Πρεττανοί (Prettanoi), Priteni, Pritani or Pretani. The group included Ireland, which was referred to as Ierne (Insula sacra "sacred island" as the Greeks interpreted it) "inhabited by the race of Hiberni" (gens hibernorum), and Britain as insula Albionum, "island of the Albions".The term Pritani may have reached Pytheas from the Gauls, who possibly used it as their term for the inhabitants of the islands.

As for the Illyrians check their coinage:
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Look how many Greek names are on the coins.

Ottomans had nothing to do with our ancient history, their first Caliphate begins at 1300 AD, they don't have any BC history! Ottomans never said anything about Celts to us, still they never mention them in their books.
I really don't understand what are you trying to tell me? That Celts had civilization older than ours? My village built at 3000 BC and still has the same name and there is absolutely nothing relative with Celts there.We already have propaganda from albanians, skopjans, turks, bulgarians and i don't need more.
The names Greek and Hellinas are about 10000 BC old.

As for the topic: ' Sperra from Greece, some W.O. Larsen Signature from me for tonight.


PS: we abuse this topic with history, i don't want to continue this, already i have many hostile anti-Hellenic posts from anglosaxons in other forum.

Feck it! Smoking Bell's Three Nuns 1990's vintage (VaPer)... never know when one is gonna die... do it now!!!

Now smoking the last of this pouch of SWRA in a 1979 straight smooth Dr. Grabow Grand Duke 45 pot with a black stem. Luckily, I have more here, so I'll revisit it sometime in the future.

Hit the gym a bit ago then grabbed a nice bottle of oak cask aged Belgian Ale that we just cracked open. Mark is cooking up some chicken and rice for supper and it will be a nice relaxing evening.

Loaded up a Scottie Bing with some Cube & Cav mixture.