Questions You Thought Were Too Dumb to Ask (Pipes Edition)

[Tobias Lutz]

Hey did you ever post an after pic of that rope you home made?

I restarted the thread, but it won't be ready for about 6 weeks

[Smoke rings]

Where do you guys buy "forever" stems for cobbs?
Thanks

[tmoran]

Where do you guys buy "forever" stems for cobbs?
Thanks

This one I can help with!

Walker Briar Works

[BryGuySC]

Where do you guys buy "forever" stems for cobbs?
Thanks

http://www.walkerbriarworks.com/html...er-_stems.html

[BryGuySC]

This one I can help with!

Walker Briar Works

Dang it, Tim! You beat me!

[Mister Moo]

If Russ Ouelette is the greastest pipe tobacco blender now alive then why does his Black Mountain/Balkan Sobranie challenge leave me unmoved?
Aside: Russ is a top drawer guy - nothing I could ever say to take away from his great work and supreme generosity.

If pipestud now has 1,000 reviews on tobaccoreviews.com, why do I not agree with 80% of his ratings?

When everyone thinks GL Pease's Union Square is the most wonderful VA tobacco ever put in a can, why does it leave me cold as winter in Saskatoon?

So, I am asking, please please please what isWRONG with me, anyhow?

[Branzig]

So, I am asking, please please please what isWRONG with me, anyhow?

Wooooow, what do you think we are here, made of time? I could take a week's vacation and still not have enough time to tell you everything that is wrong with you!

I would imagine you've had FVF, HOW, and OG....so that would explain why you , like I, are not so hot on the Union Square thing.

[Mister Moo]

I would imagine you've had FVF, HOW, and OG....so that would explain why you , like I, are not so hot on the Union Square thing.

So, I imagine it is dull and flavorless compared to, yes, you nailed it, some of my preferred VA tobaccos. OK, that answers 33% of what is wrong with me. Thank you.

[Tobias Lutz]

If Russ Ouelette is the greastest pipe tobacco blender now alive then why does his Black Mountain/Balkan Sobranie challenge leave me unmoved?
Aside: Russ is a top drawer guy - nothing I could ever say to take away from his great work and supreme generosity.

If pipestud now has 1,000 reviews on tobaccoreviews.com, why do I not agree with 80% of his ratings?

So, I am asking, please please please what isWRONG with me, anyhow?

I'll take on the other two...

I imagine Black Mountain/Balkan Sobranie doesn't do it for you for the same reason Joyce's Ulysses doesn't do it for me. It doesn't matter how good the blender(author) is, or how much people rave about something, there is a subversive side of my unconscious that refuses to go along with what all arrows point to as being a good thing.

As for the reviews...I will never trust anything that comes from someone who assigns themselves a moniker including the word "stud"

[Mister Moo]

I'll take on the other two...

I imagine Black Mountain/Balkan Sobranie doesn't do it for you for the same reason Joyce's Ulysses doesn't do it for me. It doesn't matter how good the blender(author) is, or how much people rave about something, there is a subversive side of my unconscious that refuses to go along with what all arrows point to as being a good thing.

D'oh, I really like Russ and respect his efforts. The jury that judged Black Mountain gave it top marks. I still don't know what's wrog with me. Maybe I have too many dirty pipes.

As for the reviews...I will never trust anything that comes from someone who assigns themselves a moniker including the word "stud"

I go with that. Thank you - I am down to 33% unexplained wrongness.