prototypicalDave
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Favorite Pipe: New straight Falcon with a smooth billiard bowl
Favorite Tobacco: Newminster 403? Maybe ODF
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Post by prototypicalDave on Sept 12, 2020 16:59:15 GMT -5
I spent childhood summers running around beneath drying tobacco hanging in the barns of our ancestral farm in eastern NC. Four generations of my family has grown tobacco on that farm. My Grandmother is full of stories of her and her 12 (!) older siblings walking through the fields, picking off the worms and dropping them into old soup cans full of kerosene. I remember when the smell of downtown Durham NC was entirely dominated by the aroma of curing tobacco. So it's not terribly surprising that I'm a cig smoker of 30 years. I have tried pipes off and on over the years to no avail, but a couple of months ago it finally clicked with a serendipitous bowl of Peterson Flake. The smell and taste of that stuff is a nuclear nostalgia bomb and thus I was hooked. I write software for a living in Charlotte NC. I've played drums for longer than I've smoked. A slice of my current life is illustrated by the following photo, which displays an appropriate number of cobs and a brand-new and burgeoning tobacco horde as they begin to dominate my home office/studio. As I make this post, I'm watching the replay of qualifying for the "FORMULA 1 PIRELLI GRAN PREMIO DELLA TOSCANA FERRARI 1000 2020" race that's happening tomorrow. I don't care who wins as long as George Russell out qualifies Latifi again.  So far I have discovered that: - I love VAs despite the damage that they do to the lining of my mouth.
- I want to eat Perique.
- Burley is a warm bed.
- Latakia I can take or leave.
- I REALLY love pipe smoking.
- I am destined for codgerdom. A destiny that I will gladly accept.
- Pipe folks seem to be among the better variety of folks.
Thanks for welcoming me into the fold.
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Post by Darin on Sept 12, 2020 17:49:57 GMT -5
A warm welcome from AZ!  |
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Post by kxg on Sept 12, 2020 18:12:29 GMT -5
Welcome to the Patch, from the High Plains. My ancestors on my mother's side were from middle Tennessee and I remember visiting a huge tobacco barn near Sparta. It was mostly empty at that time of year, but oh the aroma!
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Post by pepesdad1 on Sept 12, 2020 18:17:56 GMT -5
Welcome from central north Florida...hopefully not the destination of the tropical depression heading into the Gulf. I pray it doesn't visit the folks who have already suffered through Hurricane Laura.
Sounds like you have started a well trod road to bliss!
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Post by lizardonarock on Sept 12, 2020 18:49:20 GMT -5
Looks like fun Dave.
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Post by Ronv69 on Sept 12, 2020 20:06:28 GMT -5
Welcome to the Patch from Linden Texas! 😁 🤠
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Post by puffy on Sept 12, 2020 21:20:45 GMT -5
Welcome Aboard..I have memories of the smell of tobacco barns from my young days..Long ago.
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Post by Gandalf on Sept 12, 2020 21:34:50 GMT -5
Welcome to the patch from central Illinois.
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Post by CrustyCat on Sept 12, 2020 22:57:57 GMT -5
Hello and welcome from Nevada.
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Post by mgtarheel on Sept 12, 2020 23:00:07 GMT -5
Welcome from "The Tarheel State"
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Post by mrlunting on Sept 13, 2020 1:54:31 GMT -5
A kind welcome from Ontario Canada.
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 13, 2020 3:58:51 GMT -5
Welcome Dave!!
I hope you enjoy your stay here. Have fun.
Based on your list of discoveries, you need help. We're a bunch of enablers here, though, so we can only help you get worse.
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Post by just ol ed on Sept 13, 2020 9:01:02 GMT -5
adding my welcome/greets from 50miles East of Buffalo, NY. Long timer at forums, chatrooms etc. am a long time lata-holic. Being born learning disabled, fergit anything hi-tech, just some basics
Obviously you not about to take my "seniority" (27.5 yrs on the railroad before getting Reaganized). Seniority was everything. Step-family in Dunn, NC
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
pipe/cigar since '62
12/29/40
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Post by Yohanan on Sept 13, 2020 13:22:00 GMT -5
Hello prototypicalDave, and Welcome to the Forum!!!
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Post by CrustyCat on Sept 14, 2020 1:39:25 GMT -5
adding my welcome/greets from 50miles East of Buffalo, NY. Long timer at forums, chatrooms etc. am a long time lata-holic. Being born learning disabled, fergit anything hi-tech, just some basics Obviously you not about to take my "seniority" (27.5 yrs on the railroad before getting Reaganized). Seniority was everything. Step-family in Dunn, NC Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY pipe/cigar since '62 12/29/40 my grandfather was an engineer way back when. Out of Iowa. My uncle was a lineman. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2020 3:30:29 GMT -5
That's a great intro, Dave!
Welcome from Atlantic Canada.
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Post by Low and Slow on Sept 18, 2020 13:29:38 GMT -5
Welcome to the patch Dave!
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Post by Waldron on Oct 14, 2020 18:07:25 GMT -5
Cool story, Dave. That feeling of nostalgia is something that makes pipe smoking so satisfying. I’m new myself, but have enjoyed my time immensely so far.
Good to meet a fellow F1 fan!
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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 15, 2020 5:58:16 GMT -5
Welcome, Dave….you've learned a lot in a short time, Keep up the good work!
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Post by sperrytops on Oct 15, 2020 16:57:54 GMT -5
Welcome from Northern California.
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Post by bonanzadriver on Oct 15, 2020 21:49:08 GMT -5
Another welcome from NC.
I live just east of you a bit in Pinehurst.
When we get through this bout of woohan flu and things get back to normal, I'm hoping things will pick back up for some of the pipe meetings @ JR's Cigar shop in Mooresville. When that happens I'll try to meet you and the others there.
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 16, 2020 6:40:04 GMT -5
 Hello from Cajun Country. It’s Cane cutting time here. 
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 16, 2020 8:20:37 GMT -5
I’m an FNG, too, but just had to chime in a welcome and compliment you on your introduction. I found it very interesting, and well done. So far I have found this place to be friendly and helpful with lots of very knowledgeable folks willing to answer any question you might have. I’m enjoying my visits here and am sure you will too.
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Post by papipeguy on Oct 16, 2020 11:22:42 GMT -5
Thanks for joining us. I'm sure you'll have fun with this group,
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 16, 2020 11:33:24 GMT -5
Hello from Cajun Country. It’s Cane cutting time here. It's been 160 years since my ancestors harvested cane in Louisiana and they did it a LOT differently. My mom and grandmother both had to cut cane by hand in the 1920s. They didn't recommend it. |
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Post by oldcajun123 on Oct 16, 2020 11:46:38 GMT -5
My mother a Granger, was in a family of 15,great grandfather came from England, cut cane with a cane knife with her other 12 brothers. Her father had her cooking at 8, standing on a milk crate to stir the pot, life was hard back then.
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Post by Ronv69 on Oct 18, 2020 21:16:40 GMT -5
We've got it so good.
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Post by briarpipenyc on Oct 20, 2020 6:43:02 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum. You'll enjoy it, here. Lots to learn. Stop here and get schooled by those who've been there and done it.
Boy! do you have an interesting background. I would just love to sit and talk a while with you, and "revisit" your earlier days.
Have fun. The learning curve is long, and flavorful, and filled with fragrant smoke.
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Post by taiguy66 on Oct 21, 2020 13:47:34 GMT -5
From one newbie to another, welcome! Hope your journey on all things pipe is fruitful and enjoyable.
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Post by zambini on Oct 21, 2020 14:46:45 GMT -5
Welcome, from Guadalajara.
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Hello from Cajun Country. It’s Cane cutting time here.
