Comments on: Still smoking, and proud of it

By: A paean to smoking « the spike

A paean to smoking « the spike — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:41:52 +0000

[...] a great post over at Murder of Ravens: Whenever I fill my pipe – perhaps a Sasieni made back in the 1920’s out of briar that was 100 [...]

By: Lolly

Lolly — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:53:13 +0000

I read your Sasieni article! The whole thing! Makes me want to go garage-saling to see if I can find a rare Sasieni. To tell you the truth, after reading your article, if I came across ANY Sasieni at a garage sale, I’d have to buy it, just so I could bring it home and try to date it, per your article. I’d love to tell you that I picked up a beauty of a pre-transition Sasieni for a dollar!

Wow. The whole thing? I’m impressed! If you do find any Sasienis, make sure you give me right of first refusal!

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:30:55 +0000

Not sure I ever told you this, but I found your site because of the pictures you posted of Gerald Ford smoking his pipe. I was looking on Google for an avatar to use for a pipe-smoking forum I had recently joined, and I found your site through the picture. Can’t believe I never told you that before.

See? Even now Gerald Ford remains a force for goodness.

Anyway, great post. I need to check out your pipe articles. You are a true hero of mine, if maybe a small part because of your stand on smoking. Keep it strong my brother. I’m off to pack a bowl myself. I think it will be Frog Morton On The Town tonight. Yes, that sounds excellent.

FMOTT is always a good choice! Thanks for the kind words.

By: Spaz

Spaz — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:29:47 +0000

Hey there,
this day started out well and then somehow it got to be one of these days where smoking a pipe and drinking whiskey just seems to make way more sense.

It usually does.

As the sun is getting ready to leave today I’m left feeling a little empty. Not because there’s nothing going on but because there’s too much. Up for drink?

With you? Anytime.

By: 1poet4man

1poet4man — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:33:30 +0000

Thanks for your post…in just a bit, I will light an Opus X in your honor…

A high honor, indeed! Thank you.

By: Red

Red — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:00:41 +0000

May I stand next to you while you enjoy that pipe .. ?

Red, you can stand next to me any time you want to. 8)

By: Billy (A Liberal Disabled Vet)

Billy (A Liberal Disabled Vet) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:12:41 +0000

I still smoke. I began smoking at age 15. I was quickly up to two packs a day (apparently I have an addictive personality (which is one reason I don’t want to try any hard drugs, or even marijuana)). Anyway, I tried to quit, but couldn’t. So I switched to smoking a pipe (luckily, in the part of the country I was in at the time, a teenager smoking a pipe was odd, but not strange). I still smoke a pipe (my favorite is a hand-carved meerchaum (carved by a guy from Georgia I met at a forest fire) and an occasional cigar. I do not smoke in the house (my wife and kids are non-smokers). The only car I smoke in is my commuter car (the one my wife calls ‘the pigmobile’). During the winter I really slow down. But I really enjoy smoking about four or five times a week.

As part of my job, I am fire militia. I get sent to forest fires (usually out west) where I staff roadblocks and such. I smoke heavily at fires. When I am working seventeen hours a day (or night) and sleeping in the back of an SUV or in a tent, smoking keeps me awake without the caffeine crash. I tell you all that so I can tell you this:

Last year I was at a fire in Northern California along the Klamath River. The terrain there is steep. It is hot and, for the west, humid. There are bad inversions (smoke trapped in the valleys) and the smoke includes resins from poison oak which causes eye and throat irritation. I was at a roadblock in a town called Forks of Salmon (100 people). Visibility was down to less than 50 yards. A county sherrif pulled up. I was smoking a cigar (I was not in a government vehicle and was standing on a paved road with no combustibles within 10 feet, so I was legal). He got out of the vehicle and asked if I had had any trouble. No trouble. Then he asked how I can smoke a cigar in all this smoke. My reply? “It’s the closest I can get to fresh air around here.” He laughed.

Anyway. It’s good to here someone who is not only willing to admit to smoking, but will tell why they like it.

Everything in moderation.

Always a pleasure to meet a fellow pipe smoker. Thanks for stopping by.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:59:58 +0000

Well, I was going to respond here, but just as always, I had to get lengthy. So, I tracked my latest entry back to here. Enjoy and great post!

Just read your post. Well done, my friend.

By: Response to Still Smoking, and Proud of it « The Bootleg Bon Vivant

Response to Still Smoking, and Proud of it « The Bootleg Bon Vivant — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:58:36 +0000

[...] 16, 2007 by Shaun I couldn’t help myself. After reading Murder of Raven’s recent post, I felt a strong desire to respond, but my words started getting lengthy and I haven’t posted [...]

By: John Evo

John Evo — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 04:19:41 +0000

Smith said: “Sadly, though, you’re probably right.”

HEY! HEY! HEY! etc.

Ummmm, yeah, whatever you say.