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James Beebe

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Sep 20, 2001, 9:25:13 PM9/20/01
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Is there such a thing? Who would you nominate?

Besides the obvious Holmes, Heffner, Bing Crosby, Popeye ....

Who was the bass player in the Blues Brothers movie, was it Donald "Duck"
something? I nominate him.

and should we honor Tolkien by nominating him, or one of his characters?
Bilbo or Gandolf?


Bob Threeton

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Sep 20, 2001, 9:32:38 PM9/20/01
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Mark Twain and Shelby Foote.


Bob
www.threetonpipes.com

Ronald Ward

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Sep 20, 2001, 9:38:14 PM9/20/01
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Dunn. Donald "Duck" Dunn is the pipe smoking guitar player of the Blues
Brothers.
>Who was the bass player in the Blues Brothers
movie, was it Donald "Duck"
>something? I nominate him.


"It is through history that we learn Hope." Gen. Robert E. Lee

Brian J. Geiger

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Sep 20, 2001, 9:45:40 PM9/20/01
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In article <tql5mts...@corp.supernews.com>, James Beebe
<jbee...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Who would you nominate?

> and should we honor Tolkien by nominating him, or one of his characters?
> Bilbo or Gandolf?

I nominate General Douglas MacArthur, and I would also honor Tolkein
rather than one of his characters, since pipes were throughout the
books rather than featured with one character.

Barry S. Ephraim

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Sep 20, 2001, 10:02:48 PM9/20/01
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I would nominate Albert Einstein and Bear Graves.

Pleasant Puffs!!

Barry.

http://hometown.aol.com/bcoinshooter/mypipecollection.html

"Give a man a pipe he can smoke,
Give a man a book he can read,
And his home is bright with a calm delight,
Though the room be poor indeed."


Cgeedee

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Sep 20, 2001, 10:22:55 PM9/20/01
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No doubt -- Edward G Robinson.

chas.

Calabashed

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Sep 20, 2001, 10:51:08 PM9/20/01
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Before we get too smug, should probably include Stalin. Sorry about that.
Rich

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Mike Jacobs

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Sep 20, 2001, 10:57:31 PM9/20/01
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I think we'd need a big ASP group photo, right up there on the main wall in
Bright Lights.

mpj

Sal Sauco

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Sep 20, 2001, 11:00:16 PM9/20/01
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What about Fred McMurray?
Sal :-)_y~

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Kendal Franceschi

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Sep 20, 2001, 11:14:18 PM9/20/01
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Norman Rockwell. I love his self portrait which was the Saturday Evening
Post cover, a drawing of himself with a pipe in his mouth drawing himself
with a pipe in his mouth while looking at himself in the mirror with a pipe
in his mouth. Wonderful.
Frenchy
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HoyoD

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Sep 20, 2001, 11:44:04 PM9/20/01
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How about Dan Rowan of Rowan and Martin? He seemed to like billiards I
think.

chris


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Yellowdog530

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Sep 21, 2001, 12:12:06 AM9/21/01
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Rene Magritte and Vincent Van Gogh, let us not forget the painters!
Tom T.

Bear Graves

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Sep 21, 2001, 12:17:35 AM9/21/01
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Capt. Sir Richard Francis Burton

Sir Ernest Shackleton


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Runowski

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Sep 21, 2001, 2:01:02 AM9/21/01
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> Pipe Smokers Hall of Fame

Clearly, CS Lewis, Robert Oppenheimer, and Christopher Morley.

David Mustoe

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Sep 21, 2001, 2:18:29 AM9/21/01
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Robert Oppenheimer, Jean Paul Sartre (Sartre loved smoking in general and
smoked both pipes and Boyard cigarettes), Segovia and even Anwar Sadat.
Sadat was smoking his pipe on the day he was assassinated. I can't seem to
remember the shape, that I saw him smoking in the news film, but I remember
that I had a pipe of that same shape at the time.
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Steve Thomas

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Sep 21, 2001, 4:01:53 AM9/21/01
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On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:25:13 -0400, "James Beebe"
<jbee...@hotmail.com> (the poor thing) wrote:

>Is there such a thing? Who would you nominate?

I nominate Kendal Franceschi.

Common Steve

Tdavey

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Sep 21, 2001, 7:47:36 AM9/21/01
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okay so I am a big MacDonalds Coffee fan and while I am at it, I guess I
kinda love walmart and Disney World for me is and was the ultimate vacation
so I kinda go with old Walt Disney. They had a documentary on him the other
night and there was shots with him with a pipe in his mouth....C.S. Lewis of
course and J.R.R. Tolkein....go without saying

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Wes Doughty

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Sep 21, 2001, 8:36:08 AM9/21/01
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I nominate Miles from Risky Business.

Wes Doughty

Earl Needham

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Sep 21, 2001, 9:34:59 AM9/21/01
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"James Beebe" <jbee...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there such a thing? Who would you nominate?
>
> Besides the obvious Holmes, Heffner, Bing Crosby, Popeye ....

Chesty Puller! See http://www.mishalov.com/LeeWilliam.html for a fair
picture.

Earl
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Gary in VA

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Sep 21, 2001, 9:56:53 AM9/21/01
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Earl Needham wrote:

> > Is there such a thing? Who would you nominate?
> >
> > Besides the obvious Holmes, Heffner, Bing Crosby, Popeye ....
>
> Chesty Puller! See http://www.mishalov.com/LeeWilliam.html for a fair
> picture.

Brings back memories of bootcamp, "Goodnight Chesty Puller, where ever
you are!" Got to visit his grave a couple years back, very moving for a
jarhead.

Gary in VA

Gary in VA

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Sep 21, 2001, 10:01:49 AM9/21/01
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Who would you nominate?
> >

Derek Smalls from Spinal Tap. Gotta love a bass player who smokes a Oom
Paul.

Gary in VA

Robbie

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Sep 21, 2001, 11:00:38 AM9/21/01
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> Who would you nominate?

Steve Earle.

Robbie


Tony Coronado

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Sep 21, 2001, 11:28:00 AM9/21/01
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Add Lou Holtz to that list,

Tony.

Dave Crehore

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Sep 21, 2001, 12:04:41 PM9/21/01
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Pablo Casals, the great Spanish cellist. He smoked while playing, and I
always wondered: did he smoke a pipe because he could play the cello at the
same time, or vice versa?

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Robert Blair

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Sep 21, 2001, 1:48:09 PM9/21/01
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How about Gerald Ford? Tennesee Ernie Ford, Ernie Pyle,
Chester Nimitz, Dean Rusk?

Bob

Mike Jacobs

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Sep 21, 2001, 6:37:18 PM9/21/01
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Hah, not gonna happen. He's somehow managed to piss the committe off.
Something about being a pipe snob.

mpj


"Steve Thomas"...
>
> I nominate Kendal Franceschi.
>


Bear Graves

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Sep 21, 2001, 8:01:50 PM9/21/01
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Uh, Mike, I think the exact phrase they used was "Pipe Snot". Seems he
had one hell of a head cold when he was interviewed....

<gotta teach that boy to use a hanky>

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Kendal Franceschi

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Sep 21, 2001, 11:17:54 PM9/21/01
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sunza...eh, what's the use?

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Kendal Franceschi

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Sep 21, 2001, 11:23:57 PM9/21/01
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I already know how my other "friends" replied to this most honorable, and,
I might add, well-deserved, nomination, the buncha' lowlife bastids. But
thank you Common Steve for your insight, respect and devotion, you are,
indeed, a gentleman of rare taste. A big ol' Bronx Cheer to da' rest a' yiz,
ya' uncouth louts.
Frenchy
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Bear Graves

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Sep 21, 2001, 11:31:24 PM9/21/01
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Oh ya saw that? I wuz just repeating what Sykes said. Ya know he talks about
ya behind your back. Yep, sure does. The other day he was saying "That
Frenchy was caught with in a pasture with a sheep and rubber galoshes". Says
I "I'll have ya know that he was wearin' Hip Boots!"

Gotcher back, Pal!!!!

flatulent1

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Sep 22, 2001, 1:42:51 AM9/22/01
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James Beebe, fully enshrouded in a cloud of smoldering camel poop, wrote...

>Is there such a thing? Who would you nominate?
>

>Besides the obvious Holmes, Heffner, Bing Crosby, Popeye ....
>

If you're gonna nominate Popeye, I nominate Mammy Yokum.
Cherrywood poker (or was it a corncob?) in a mouth with no teeth.


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Seattle, WA

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were ever to break wind in the echo chamber
he would never hear the end of it."

Kendal Franceschi

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Sep 22, 2001, 2:49:36 AM9/22/01
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HA! Now I gotcha', just so happens I don't own a pair of freakin' hip boots
ya' wisenheimer, they were destroyed durin' the barnyard uprisin' in '94.
Common Steve borrowed 'em when he was tryin' cleanin' out the stalls durin'
a lull in the fighting and they got chewed off his feet by a skinny mare
named Lily who thought Common Steve's legs looked like a couple a' hot
Italian Sausages in them boots.When she realized her mistake she spit out
the boots and bit Common Steve on his buttocks for tryin' to fool her. I
still hear Common Steve mention her from time to time with a trace of
nostalgia in his voice, but then, he's got that nostalgic kinda' voice
anyway.
Frenchy
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Steve Thomas

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Sep 22, 2001, 4:45:01 AM9/22/01
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Kendal,

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 03:23:57 GMT, "Kendal Franceschi"
<song...@NOSPAMhome.com> (the poor thing) wrote:

you are,
>indeed, a gentleman of rare taste.

That's what the skinny mare Lily said.

Common Steve

Robert Crim

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Sep 22, 2001, 11:18:34 AM9/22/01
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:42:51 GMT, flatulent1 <ngt...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>If you're gonna nominate Popeye, I nominate Mammy Yokum.
>Cherrywood poker (or was it a corncob?) in a mouth with no teeth.

Mammy Yokum was the stereotypical poker fan. She appreciated the "cob
like" simplicity.


Batmang

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Sep 22, 2001, 12:58:13 PM9/22/01
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In article <tql5mts...@corp.supernews.com>, "James Beebe"
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SNIP


> Who was the bass player in the Blues Brothers movie, was it Donald "Duck"
> something? I nominate him.
>

SNIP

Donald "Duck" Dunn...one of the original MG's (as in Booker T and the MG's).

Batmang

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teichnology

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Sep 22, 2001, 5:41:17 PM9/22/01
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BB King


MikeHuston

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Sep 22, 2001, 11:38:41 PM9/22/01
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>
> If you're gonna nominate Popeye, I nominate Mammy Yokum.
> Cherrywood poker (or was it a corncob?) in a mouth with no teeth.
>

> Dwight ain't gonna preciate you talkin bout his mama like that!

Ronald Ward

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Sep 23, 2001, 1:03:18 AM9/23/01
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BB King is a pipe smoker? Well, Allright!
"It is through history that we learn Hope." Gen. Robert E. Lee

Mike Jacobs

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Sep 23, 2001, 11:36:43 AM9/23/01
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I think he means Albert King...

mpj

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Brian J. Geiger

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Sep 23, 2001, 12:02:46 PM9/23/01
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Don't you mean Prince Albert? Ha!

=Brian

teichnology

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> I think he means Albert King...

I have video of BB with a pipe in the 1970's.

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Mike Jacobs

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Sep 23, 2001, 1:36:32 PM9/23/01
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Cool! Thanks for the info. I often see him here in town. We share the same
clothier, and he shops just like he performs. One of these days I'm going to
go see his show on 42nd Street.

mpj


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teichnology

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"Mike Jacobs" <m...@SPAMSUXpobox.com> wrote in message
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> Cool! Thanks for the info. I often see him here in town. We share the same
> clothier, and he shops just like he performs. One of these days I'm going
to
> go see his show on 42nd Street.

"BB King Live in Africa" is available on DVD. 1974 Zaire. If you like BB you
will love it. Has some backstage footage with BB and his pipe.

It is his full set, a piece of which was featured in "When We were Kings",
a documentary about the "Rumble in the Jungle" that I also enjoyed very
much.

J RUBLE

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Sep 25, 2001, 4:42:15 PM9/25/01
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Heard him once in Chattanooga. Great talent.

SCOTTY

Geoff

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Sep 26, 2001, 5:49:11 AM9/26/01
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How about Eric Morecambe?
Geoff

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:25:13 -0400, "James Beebe"
<jbee...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Is there such a thing? Who would you nominate?
>

>Besides the obvious Holmes, Heffner, Bing Crosby, Popeye ....
>

>Who was the bass player in the Blues Brothers movie, was it Donald "Duck"
>something? I nominate him.
>

Paul Campbell

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> How about Eric Morecambe?
> Geoff
>

How about him indeed Geoff. One of the funniest men who ever lived. I
remember one scene where Eric was on the couch with Harold Wilson. Harold
got his pipe out and began to fill it. Eric said, "Oh, I smoke a pipe" and
Harold said "would you like a fill of mine", and passed him his pouch. Eric
produced the HUGE pipe and proceeded to empty the P.M.'s pouch into its
bowl.

And that reminds me, how about Sid James?

May they all rest in peace,
Best,
Paul.


flatulent1

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Sep 26, 2001, 5:11:32 PM9/26/01
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Paul Campbell, fully enshrouded in a cloud of smoldering camel poop, wrote...

Or, for that matter, Graham Chapman?


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Seattle WA

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it did not keep her from eeking out a living
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