Newbies Beware!!!!!
Capt' Salty
How true! BTW, seen that CASTELLO OOM Paul @ebay?? <g>
--
Steve Scherrer {:{]=o~~~
Reply to Flatpick<at>teleport<dot>com
__________________________________
Ceryx wrote in message <19990224010909...@ng-fw1.aol.com>...
> It's been a couple of years since I found this group and
started
>reading and posting. When I started reading this newsgroup, I was pretty
much a
>novice at pipe smoking, never having smoked anything more than a $30 pipe,
and
>nothing more than bulk aromatics. Since I found this group, I have spent
at
>least $3000 on pipes and hundreds more on tobacco. Reading this newsgroup
can
>lead to curiosity, and we all know that old adage "Curiosity killed the
cat".
> Oh, it started innocently enough. Questions about tobaccos.
>Questions about pipes. What's a good latakia blend? What's the deal with
>expensive pipes? You mean people *collect* pipes? And the answers to those
>questions can slowly, quietly, unobtrusively drag you into the depths. Oh
yeah,
>you think you're alright, at first. Nah! I'll never spend more than $ x for
a
>pipe, or more than $ y per ounce for tobacco. Those guys must be snobs or
>something!
> And then one day you have some extra money and say.... ok,
>I'll spend a few extra bucks and then see what happens.
> And then it begins. You're hooked. You find that you are
>overcome with an overpowering desire to procure as many high grade pipes as
you
>can. And then you find a particular maker that you favor over all others,
and
>start buying his pipes, whenever possible. And accompanying your descent
into
>the pit, you are smoking myriads of blends, finding that you like the more
>expensive stuff more than the other tobaccos that come in plastic bags. Oh
my,
>the wonder of tins. And you start to "cellar" tobaccos, especially blends
on
>the way out of the US of late "What do you mean, you only have ten tins of
the
>stuff ?!?!?!?!???".
> Recent threads have mentioned PAD (Pipe Acquisition
>Disorder). I too suffer from PAD. I have also, thanks to ASP, acquired TAD
>(Tobacco Acquisition Disorder). Both diseases are expensive to maintain,
and
>the sufferer rarely ever wants to give up these disorders, and doesn't see
the
>need in paying a psychiatrist for treatment when that money could be better
>spent on pipes and tobaccos.
> So, Newbies Beware!!!!!!!! This newsgroup can be
costly!!!
>
>
>
Ceryx
RSprin1104
Damn! Now I'm really paranoid!!! When did you sneak up and peer through my
window??? My experience exactly!!
Ron Springer
Dana Robitille
as I'm currently wrestling with my conscience about spending $45.00 for a
pipe! Ah well....
Melissa Robitille
Ceryx wrote in message <19990224010909...@ng-fw1.aol.com>...
> It's been a couple of years since I found this group and
Howard M. Rensin
Ceryx wrote:
> Since I found this group, I have spent at
> least $3000 on pipes and hundreds more on tobacco.
Don't worry. As soon as the stock market crashes and the economy
turns south, your expensive pipe habit will go the way of all
those Porsches and BMWs in 1987.
--
Howard M. Rensin, (Ham Radio Call Sign: KC3D)
Glenwood,MD,21738
[mailto:hre...@erols.com]
Searching: RENSIN,RENZIN,KALLET,KALETZKY,KLIAZKO
Robert Crim
this devilish group. I have acquired not only the dreaded PAD, *and
*the TAD, but also the ATBDTAD(about to be discontinued tobacco
acquisition disorder). I have 20 100gm tins of Three Nuns and 10 50gm
tins of Capstan stashed in my new "smoking room". The smoking room is
another thing I picked up from this evil assembly.
I checked with the shrink, and figured out that I could buy quite a
bit more Escudo and *old* Balkan Sobranie #10 for what it would cost
to just *try* to defeat this devil. So I've decided to surrender.
Robert
On 24 Feb 1999 06:09:09 GMT, ce...@aol.com (Ceryx) wrote:
> It's been a couple of years since I found this group and started
>reading and posting. When I started reading this newsgroup, I was pretty much a
>novice at pipe smoking, never having smoked anything more than a $30 pipe, and
>nothing more than bulk aromatics. Since I found this group, I have spent at
Pipeguy35
What are great post!! Makes you take a look of just how deep we've dug
ourselves into this hobby. Then again, it's a very enjoyable way to spend some
hard earned dollars, so I think I'll stick with it for a while....
Tom.
J. Galloway Co./Pipe Friendly Magazine
> It's been a couple of years since I found this group and started
> reading and posting. When I started reading this newsgroup...
I have no thoughts on TADm but perhaps there is an answer for PAD...
Spend $1000 on a single pipe just once and one of two things will probably
happen... 1) SWMBO will shake you into a mind numbing stupor - thus preventing
future purchases ... or 2) you'll continue to buy pipes, but every future purchase
will seem like a step toward recovery.
--
Joel Farr - gal...@flash.net
PIPE FRIENDLY MAGAZINE
http://www.flash.net/~gallow/pipes.html
Contest for Pipe Smokers
http://www.flash.net/~gallow/contest.html
Online Tobacco Linkz
http://www.flash.net/~gallow/linkz.html
Roger B Bergman
etc. ago. Now I have the pipes and cellered tobacco, sometimes my mouth
burns, I have neglected the ski machine, my house smells like pipe tobacco,
and everything that goes with it. But I get up every morning and do an hour
of excercises before going to work. That is something I did not do when I
smoked cigarettes. I do not find myself running out of breath and I am
feeling like I can enjoy the same pleasures as a millionaire. Not a bad
trade off, or maybe just a defense mechanism for my addicted behavior
pattern.(PS I am a psychiatrist ).
Good Smoking
Roger
M. Crane
rpe...@mindspring.com wrote:
> In the opinion of the officers of the Cheap Pipe Club, anyone who
> would spend 1000 bucks on a pipe should be hanged by his neck until he
> is dead, dead, dead.
>
> We, the membership of the CPC, that the only pump that you get out of
> smoking pipes that expensive is an ego boost. Why pay a grand for a
> new pipe. I can buy Charatan Executives, brand new for 25 bucks
> (bought two of them, and they were pre Lane Charatans), and beautiful
> Savinelli Autographs for 10 (very slightly used), I also bought two
> of them. I get excellent Dunhills for 40 and feel that I overpaid for
> them. I managed to get two Savinelli Anniversary pipes, one smoked
> once or probably only lit and no smoked further, and the other
> unsmoked , for similar prices.
>
> It is, of course, Paulist, but if you seek, you will find.
I pronam to my paramguru.
Martin
Michael Brock
> I too, must confess to having led astray of the straight and narrow by
> this devilish group. I have acquired not only the dreaded PAD, *and
> *the TAD, but also the ATBDTAD(about to be discontinued tobacco
> acquisition disorder). I have 20 100gm tins of Three Nuns and 10 50gm
> tins of Capstan stashed in my new "smoking room". The smoking room is
> another thing I picked up from this evil assembly.
>
> I checked with the shrink, and figured out that I could buy quite a
> bit more Escudo and *old* Balkan Sobranie #10 for what it would cost
> to just *try* to defeat this devil. So I've decided to surrender.
>
> Robert
>
When rape is inevitable, lay back and enjoy it.
--
Michael Brock
Reg Vet Tech
ATLS Coordinator
"We only needed to be asked." - Neil Gaimen
from 'We Can Get Them For You Wholesale'
Stephen Cox
rspri...@aol.com (RSprin1104) wrote:
> >t's been a couple of years since I found this group and started
> >reading and posting. When I started reading this newsgroup, I was pretty much
> >a
> >novice at pipe smoking, never having smoked anything more than a $30 pipe,
> >and
> >nothing more than bulk aromatics. Since I found this group, I have spent at
> >least $3000 on pipes and hundreds more on tobacco. Reading this newsgroup can
> >lead to curiosity, and we all know that old adage "Curiosity killed the cat".
> > Oh, it started innocently enough. Questions about tobaccos.
> >Questions about pipes. What's a good latakia blend? What's the deal with
< snip >
> >
>
> Damn! Now I'm really paranoid!!! When did you sneak up and peer through my
> window??? My experience exactly!!
> Ron Springer
I really don't know what the big deal is. I just don't understand PAD at
all! Some people must be weak willed or something. I, for one, could
quit buying pipes and tobacco anytime I wanted to. No, really, I could!
BTW, ummm, uhhh, errr... could someone please tell me where to acquire
some Friedman and Pease tobacs. Also, have you seen the 'tanshell'
finishes Tinsky has been making lately? I bet a special order with a
...... ;)
But, I could quit whenever I wanted to, honest!
[grinning]
Stephen
--
Stephen B. Cox Program in Ecology and Conservation Biology
sc...@ttu.edu Department of Biological Sciences
Texas Tech University
Lubbock TX 794098-3131
rpe...@mindspring.com
In the opinion of the officers of the Cheap Pipe Club, anyone who
Scott Curtis
>>
>>
>
>In the opinion of the officers of the Cheap Pipe Club, anyone who
>would spend 1000 bucks on a pipe should be hanged by his neck until he
>is dead, dead, dead.
>
>We, the membership of the CPC, that the only pump that you get out of
>smoking pipes that expensive is an ego boost. Why pay a grand for a
>new pipe. I can buy Charatan Executives, brand new for 25 bucks
>(bought two of them, and they were pre Lane Charatans), and beautiful
>Savinelli Autographs for 10 (very slightly used), I also bought two
>of them. I get excellent Dunhills for 40 and feel that I overpaid for
>them. I managed to get two Savinelli Anniversary pipes, one smoked
>once or probably only lit and no smoked further, and the other
>unsmoked , for similar prices.
>
>It is, of course, Paulist, but if you seek, you will find.
You're singing my song! So how do I get an application for membership
to the CPC? As to my TAD; I think I'm beyond help.
God is coming.........Look busy!
Scott
Michael D. Lindner
Michael Brock wrote in message <36D4DC5C...@sprintmail.com>...
>When rape is inevitable, lay back and enjoy it.
Well, now, that just puts a whole new twist on that "It's all your point of
view" thing, now doesn't it?
Regards,
Michael Lindner
return path is full of lies and deception. try this one instead:
sasieni<at>pobox<dot>com
"Highly intelligent people are the world's foremost experts at squashing
good ideas. That's because intelligent people have one absolute favorite
use for their formidable intelligence: Telling other people, with total
conviction and logic, why other people's ideas will not work."
-Harry Beckwith, "Selling The Invisible"
rpe...@mindspring.com
You send me a nickle scotch taped on the back of a post card and if it
gets here, you are a member.
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 03:31:49 GMT, sjcu...@datacruz.com (Scott Curtis)
wrote:
Christopher M. Carden
Hey Neil, allow me this opportunity to say as I have said before; "If
buying pipes is wrong......then I dont want to be right!"
Christopher M. Carden
"We're holding our own" Cpt. Ernest M. Mcsorley, S.S. Edmund
Fitzgerald, 11/10/75
Dana Robitille
Melissa Robitille
rpe...@mindspring.com wrote in message
<36d4954a...@news.mindspring.com>...
>On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 23:25:45 GMT, "J. Galloway Co./Pipe Friendly
>Magazine" <gal...@pop.flash.net> wrote:
>
>>Ceryx,
>>
>>> It's been a couple of years since I found this group and
started
>>> reading and posting. When I started reading this newsgroup...
>>
>> I have no thoughts on TADm but perhaps there is an answer for
PAD...
>>
>> Spend $1000 on a single pipe just once and one of two things will
probably
>>happen... 1) SWMBO will shake you into a mind numbing stupor - thus
preventing
>>future purchases ... or 2) you'll continue to buy pipes, but every future
purchase
>>will seem like a step toward recovery.
>>--
>>Joel Farr - gal...@flash.net
>>PIPE FRIENDLY MAGAZINE
>>http://www.flash.net/~gallow/pipes.html
>>Contest for Pipe Smokers
>>http://www.flash.net/~gallow/contest.html
>>Online Tobacco Linkz
>>http://www.flash.net/~gallow/linkz.html
>>
>>
>
rpe...@mindspring.com
I don't buy often, I buy well.
Ceryx
> Lol, very funny! Of course, I'm likely in the category to be warned
>as I'm currently wrestling with my conscience about spending $45.00 for a
>pipe! Ah well....
>Melissa Robitille
Well, I believe this group is what got you into latakia, right??? You
just wait..... <VBEG>
richard bies
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Scott Curtis wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:38:30 GMT, rpe...@mindspring.com wrote:
>
> >
> >You send me a nickle scotch taped on the back of a post card and if it
> >gets here, you are a member.
> >
> A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
> embroidered patch? I'm gonna need some more information before I just
> throw away a nickle.
>
Perry, I'd say he has |ipso-facto| qualified. |Res ipsa loquitor|
r.m.bies
Andy Chase
richard bies wrote:
>
> > A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
> > embroidered patch? I'm gonna need some more information before I just
> > throw away a nickle.
> >
> Perry, I'd say he has |ipso-facto| qualified. |Res ipsa loquitor|
What if I tape 5 one-cent stamps to the postcard instead? I've got some left over
from the recent US postal rate hike. I'd tape them face down so nobody could
see'em.
-Andy
--------------------------------------------------
andychase(AT)yahoo.com
http://www.anet.net/~andyc
The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the
color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven
written in green, but you learn not to expect this. - Garrison Keillor
rpe...@mindspring.com
Ah, Latakia. Drops from the north end of a south bound camel.
And Dana, if you are interested in very good pipes for less than 45
bucks, email me and we will discuss the ones I am divesting myself of.
My smoking has had to drop way off because of health problems. A
couple of them are brand new, never smoked. Some are slightly smoked.
All are quality.
Walter L. De Visser, Sr
overpricing membership to CPC we would have more members. The treasurer
said four cents, Bill, not five!
--
Walt
http://www.defendyourprivacy.com
Scott Curtis
>
>You send me a nickle scotch taped on the back of a post card and if it
>gets here, you are a member.
>
A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
embroidered patch? I'm gonna need some more information before I just
throw away a nickle.
rpe...@mindspring.com
My property taxes are due. I have nothing more to say about that.
rpe...@mindspring.com
wrote:
>On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:38:30 GMT, rpe...@mindspring.com wrote:
The cheapest case of pride that you ever bought.
rpe...@mindspring.com
<bi...@infobahn.icubed.com> wrote:
>
>
>On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Scott Curtis wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:38:30 GMT, rpe...@mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >You send me a nickle scotch taped on the back of a post card and if it
>> >gets here, you are a member.
>> >
>> A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
>> embroidered patch? I'm gonna need some more information before I just
>> throw away a nickle.
>>
>Perry, I'd say he has |ipso-facto| qualified. |Res ipsa loquitor|
>
>r.m.bies
>
bies has opened up his Latin Quotations book again. I guess I will
have to get into it with him.
rpe...@mindspring.com
<"andychase"@(AT)yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>richard bies wrote:
>>
>> > A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
>> > embroidered patch? I'm gonna need some more information before I just
>> > throw away a nickle.
>> >
>> Perry, I'd say he has |ipso-facto| qualified. |Res ipsa loquitor|
>
>What if I tape 5 one-cent stamps to the postcard instead? I've got some left over
>from the recent US postal rate hike. I'd tape them face down so nobody could
>see'em.
>
>-Andy
>
>--------------------------------------------------
>andychase(AT)yahoo.com
>http://www.anet.net/~andyc
>
>The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the
>color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven
>written in green, but you learn not to expect this. - Garrison Keillor
I mail everything postage due, a habit I picked up from bies who
should be President of the Cheap Pipe Club. This man scours the curbs
in the nether regions of Pittsburg hunting for cigarette butts with
any tobacco left in them at all, takes them home , gets the tobacco,
and smokes it in his pipes.
For evening dinner, he goes behind a restaurant and barks with the
dogs, waiting for the cooks and scullery people to throw him
something.
To keep his car going, he steals parts at night from a salvage yard.
He occupies the dogs with a bag or so of the scullery throw-outs that
he was too full to eat.
Stephen P. Smith
> So, Newbies Beware!!!!!!!! This newsgroup can be costly!!!
Long ago I was corrupted by an equally insidious institution, the pipe
club. By the time I discovered ASP, there was nothing left *to*
corrupt.
The easiest way to deal with tempation is to wallow in it.
Steve Smith
^
~~ ~~ ^
@ ~ @~~ ^
^
\/ ^
~~ ~~ ^
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-A portrait of the pipe smoker as a young man-
"taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the
long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was
in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood" -- Dr. John H. Watson
rfo...@mindspring.com
Stephen Cox wrote in message ...
Stephen P. Smith
>A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
>embroidered patch?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You get the warm feeling that comes with knowing that you are one with
the Right Reverend Bill Perry the Parsimonious, Oracle of Buford,
Vicar of the Church of the Black Spot, ASP's very own anti-Christ. <G>
rpe...@mindspring.com
Steven Smith is trying to cast dispersion on me.
Envy is a horrible thing, I guess.
johnwpe...@my-dejanews.com
Does that mean Steven is trying to make like Mr. Scott, the engineer of the
starship USS Enterprise, and beam you into outer space?
ROFL, John
In article <36dae443....@news.mindspring.com>,
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Jim Beard
> Thus spake sjcu...@datacruz.com (Scott Curtis):
> >A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
> >embroidered patch?
>
wrote ...> HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> You get the warm feeling that comes with knowing that you are one with
> the Right Reverend Bill Perry the Parsimonious, Oracle of Buford,
> Vicar of the Church of the Black Spot, ASP's very own anti-Christ. <G>
Steve,
Are you trying to say it is a little like peeing your pants in a dark
suit? You get a warm feeling, but nobody notices.
Cheers!
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rpe...@mindspring.com
though I was old and ugly, I had girls around me all the time, he got
jealous and has envied me every since.
And when he found out for sure that my claim that I could out lie
Satan was better than a simple truth, his envy increased 10 fold.
The poor man has lived with this increasing envy for 18 months or
better and I don't know what can be done to help him out.
On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 21:21:09 GMT, johnwpe...@my-dejanews.com
wrote:
>Cast dispersions ...
>
>Does that mean Steven is trying to make like Mr. Scott, the engineer of the
>starship USS Enterprise, and beam you into outer space?
>
>ROFL, John
>
>In article <36dae443....@news.mindspring.com>,
> rpe...@mindspring.com wrote:
>>
>> Steven Smith is trying to cast dispersion on me.
>>
>> Envy is a horrible thing, I guess.
>>
>> On Mon, 01 Mar 1999 18:29:13 GMT, fourdotsR...@ma.ultranet.com
>> (Stephen P. Smith) wrote:
>>
>> >Thus spake sjcu...@datacruz.com (Scott Curtis):
>> >
>> >>A nickle huh? So what do I get for my nickle? A newletter? An
>> >>embroidered patch?
>> >
>> >HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>> >
>> >You get the warm feeling that comes with knowing that you are one with
>> >the Right Reverend Bill Perry the Parsimonious, Oracle of Buford,
>> >Vicar of the Church of the Black Spot, ASP's very own anti-Christ. <G>
>> >
Stephen P. Smith
>Steven Smith is trying to cast dispersion on me.
That's Stephen Smith to you, bub.
>Envy is a horrible thing, I guess.
Actually, I'm delighted to see you posting again. This NG just ain't
the same without you.
Stephen P. Smith
>When 4 Dots met me at Richmond some 18 months ago and saw that even
>though I was old and ugly, I had girls around me all the time, he got
>jealous and has envied me every since.
>
>And when he found out for sure that my claim that I could out lie
>Satan was better than a simple truth, his envy increased 10 fold.
Well, Bill, I don't know about the girls, but you *are* the only guy
I've ever met who will lie just to stay in practice. <g>
rpe...@mindspring.com
Lying is an art, generally a lost art. An accomplished liar has to
stay active in the field of he will lose the grace and style of good
lying.
Bill Clinton failed the follow some of the basic rules of lying, and
thus got caught. If you lie, you have to live the lie and you have to
repeat the lie time after time as you develop the skill of lying
without giving it away in facial expressions. You have to lie until
you believe the lie yourself. It works.