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  1. BriarWolf

    Snuff

    It depends. If you mean 'dip', can't stand the stuff. Nasal snuff however, the refined habit of poets and emperors, is one of my happy vices (and likely the least unhealthy). I've tried a number of the the locally available American dry snuffs, all by Swisher, including Railroad Mills and...
  2. BriarWolf

    Loungers In Print!

    My turn for some shameless self promotion! Like a number of my fellow loungers, I'm an old school pulp nut. The dark fantasy, sword and sorcery, and just plain strange stories pioneered by Lovecraft, Smith, Howard, and their contemporaries remain some of my favourite fiction. So awhile back I...
  3. BriarWolf

    Edgar Rice Burroughs

    As a pulp nut, the John Carter stories have a special place in my heart. I've read some Tarzan and Pellucidar as well, but they never grabbed hold of my heart the way Barsoom did. I did enjoy the film, which surprised me; I honestly felt Disney's Carter was a bit too angsty compared to the...
  4. BriarWolf

    What are you Writing?

    I was in the EMS field for a little while, and mostly just muscle, but from what I've seen it would depend on her signs and symptoms, the hospital, the individual staff treating her - it may be something as simple as checking for proper fluid levels (an IV if severely dehydrated), a little time...
  5. BriarWolf

    A Meerschaum Issue - Any Advice?

    So today I received a long awaited calabash pipe, brand new. In my enthusiasm, I immediately dove in and smoked four bowls out of the thing, allowing it to cool to the touch first each time. I have since noticed a hairline crack has appeared on the lip of the Meerschaum bowl insert; its purely...
  7. BriarWolf

    Smoking Jackets

    Has anyone had any experience with the synthetic smoking jackets sold by Gentlemen's Emporium?
  8. BriarWolf

    Leather Buttons

    We see them all the time, the folded leather buttons often seen on tweed and other sport coats. But just how old are they? What's the earliest we see this sort of button? Does it go back to the 19th century or merely the 20th?
  9. BriarWolf

    Your signature cocktail.

    Myself along with a friend of mine of Irish and Polish extraction, created a little Slavic homage to the classic Johnny Jump Up that we've christened the Pilsudski Jump Up, after the famous Polish national leader. Its simply 50/50 Luksusowa wodka and Zywiec beer.
  10. BriarWolf

    Of Sheep-Dip, Rot-Gut, and Furniture Polish. The worst of the worst.

    There's a particular pair of local antiseptics out of Baltimore, Rikaloff and Black Watch, both grain 'vodka'. They've acquired, among the circle, the affectionate nicknames of 'Kommissar Rikaloff' and 'The Sergeant Major', seeing as both will knock you on your arse and possibly kill you...
  11. BriarWolf

    What coffee or tea did you drink today?

    Bigelow bagged English Breakfast. The loose leaf Darjeeling ran out a week ago.
  13. BriarWolf

    What is your biggest vice?

    Food. My lizard brain is rather too fond of eating. The alcohol habit would kill me first and the tobacco habit would quickly bankrupt me, but I'd gladly take both over food.
  14. BriarWolf

    What Did You Drink Last Night?

    Luksusowa vodka, first in a martini and later straight. Sadly its the only potato vodka one can get around here, but its quite good for the price and a nice break from the grain stuff.
  15. BriarWolf

    Snuff

    Right, well after several weeks of research and pondering, I took the plunge and picked up a small container of Railroad Mills Sweet Scotch snuff from my local purveyor (Food Lion grocery, whom in my area carries a decent variety of American snuffs, but only, I'm quite sure, because of the...
  16. BriarWolf

    What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?

    Packed my saddle bit bulldog with a bowl of Carter Hall, which has become my go to these days. For a drugstore tobacco, its decent stuff, with the added benefit of not offending the household.
  17. BriarWolf

    Favorite time of day to smoke a cigar?

    Same. My grandfather, from whom I learned the habit, was always a morning smoker, no matter how cold the PA winters got. Myself, I'm an evening smoker. Started off that way out of habit; when I was new behind the wheel and gas was cheaper I loved to go for an evening drive and 'chase the...
  19. BriarWolf

    What's In Your Bathroom Library?

    Now there's a fun read! (Long time Zorro nut here) Currently the throne room boasts a copy of Hoyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, a Redwall novel (Rakkety Tam), and the Star Wars Thrawn Trilogy.
  20. BriarWolf

    Do Men Hate Women's Hats?

    I for one am borderline ecstatic when I see a woman in a hat, and lament their disappearance among the fairer sex even moreso than among us men. Skin cancer isn't sexy, ya know. :p
  21. BriarWolf

    Snuff

    Having grown up thick among many a proud self-described redneck, I've been long familiar with 'dip', and its really the only tobacco habit I have a prejudice against. Even as far cigarettes, which I care little for as far as the odour goes, I posses at least sympathy for conscientious cigarette...
  22. BriarWolf

    Balmorals, Tams, Glengarrys too!

    I think there were a few mentions amid the berets, but I felt they deserved their own thread. So lads, those of us who where the good ol' Balmoral bonnet, the Tam O'shanter, and even the Glengarry or Kilmarnock, show yer colours!
  23. BriarWolf

    Opera Fans In The FL?

    Easily my favourite from Mozart. Commendatore gives me chills every time and must be seen, not just heard. Its inclusion in Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows was one of the most gratifying parts of the film.

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