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  1. bobomatic

    Vintage Lighters

    I would love to own one of these:
  2. bobomatic

    Earthquake

    So I'm sitting here on my balcony this morning smoking my pipe with some nice mellow coffee to get the day going. I start to feel dizzy and thought I had an unusually high nicotine hit. Then the sliding glass door starting to shake and the plants were dancing more than usual. It was the first...
  3. bobomatic

    Federal Taxes on Cigars & Pipe Tobacco

    Maybe this has been posted before, but I just now read this. Sen. Dick Durbin introduced new legislation in Sep 2023 to increase taxes on pipe and cigar tobacco. A 16x increase on pipe tobacco and doubling the tax on small cigars and a massive tax hike for premium cigars. Luckily, according to...
  4. bobomatic

    The Mark Twain Method

    Read this earlier today. Apologies if it's been discussed before but I thought it was interesting. Notes from a reporter: "I was much impressed by the ingenuity with which Mark Twain fills his corn-cob pipe. The humorist is an inspired Idler. He is a lazy man, and likes to do things with the...
  5. bobomatic

    Cigarillo Recommendation

    Not much experience with cigarillos, but want to give'em a soild try, for those days when I want a short smoke outside on a cold winter day. I was looking at Erin Go Bragh Cigarillos but wanted to get some recommendations from you guys for a soild well made, mellow cigarillo. Thanks
  6. bobomatic

    What A Treat

    One of my wifes brothers found an old pipe of their father and recently gave it to us. Her father passed away in 1975 when she was just a teenager. He was a gold miner here in Colombia back in the day and she said she always remembered him smoking this pipe while loading his mules. This...
  7. bobomatic

    Hola from Colombia!

    Hi everyone... having taken a hiatus from pipe smoking for a number of years, I've decided to jump back in. I'm retired and been living in the coffee region of Colombia for the last five years. I occasionally go home to see my family but I'm really happy and feel fortunate to be living in such a...