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| Real Name | Gary Cook |
|---|---|
| Joined | 2004-10 |
| Last Visited | 2021-03 |
| Location | SW Michigan, USA |
I began smoking pipes back in Nixon's interrupted second term of office. I remember this because I nearly immolated myself with hot embers spilled from a pipe while rejoicing and cheering at his resignation. Since that time, I went between pipe and cigars until the early 1990's when cigars became trendy and tripled in price and my beloved Jamaicans began to be made elsewhere. I relearned the gentle, if inconvenient art of pipes if only to save money. A tin of Amphora brown could be had for the price of one cigar and last me a hundred smokes.
Then the internet started and suddenly the availability of tobacco and that damned eBay enticed me to bury myself in endless varieties of pipeweed and pipes I never needed. You know the rest. Until I discovered this site, I had little guidance on the characteristics of tobaccos, so a lot got thrown away. Or should have been. I probably still have it.
I began writing reviews in 2004 for my own use as a backup to crashing computers. You can find them helpful or not (I hope you do) but I don't really care; I write what I think, even if it is critical of a Pease blend. This site is for opinions. Like anuses, everybody has one. Unlike anuses, I value your opinions, especially once you've written enough to display your biases. I can always tell time by a clock that is always 8 hours off.
Since that time, a seemingly helpful "helpfuness" field was started but has since been co-opted by like-thinking people to congratulate each other in their agreement on a tobacco and to manipulate their own and other's apparent popularity apparently independent of review quality. Remember high school? Yeah. That.
That said, I do think more about what I say and how others, including older-me might interpret them, and that's a good thing. I don't go back and edit them unless I find glaring errors or have new information, no matter how badly I wrote it.
Keep your pipes clean.
Gary
| Savant | Has voted at least 100 times. |
| Neutralist | Has rated between 50% to 80% of their reviews with 2 or 3 stars. |
| Veteran | Has posted reviews in at least 5 different years. |
| Connoisseur | Has reviewed at least 50 tobaccos from at least 10 brands. |
| Mentor | Has voted for reviews spanning at least 100 different tobaccos. |
| Motivator | Has upvoted at least 80% of the time. |
| Date | Blend | Reviews | Avg Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-05-16 | Ashton - Celebrated Sovereign | 32 |   3.3 |
| 2015-02-27 | Chonowitsch - T 17 | 15 | 3.3 |
| 2014-08-26 | Mac Baren - HH Vintage Syrian | 232 | 3.3 |
| 2015-02-08 | Mac Baren - Solent Mixture | 54 | 3.1 |
| 2015-02-08 | Mac Baren - Plumcake | 294 | 2.9 |
| 2014-05-16 | McClelland - Classic Samsun (Grand Orientals) | 76 | 3.6 |
| 2014-05-13 | McClelland - Orient 996 (Collector Series) | 20 | 3.3 |
| 2014-05-13 | McClelland - Frog Morton Across the Pond (Craftsbury Series) | 155 | 2.8 |
| 2014-05-13 | McClelland - Frog Morton's Cellar (Craftsbury Series) | 202 | 3.5 |
| 2015-07-31 | McClelland - Yenidje Supreme (Grand Orientals) | 62 | 3.1 |
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110 reviews 252 helpful votes |
4 star: 27 Strongly Recommended 3 star: 46 Recommended 2 star: 30 Somewhat Recommended 1 star: 7 Not Recommended |
Preferences: Latakia 3.4, Burley 3.4, Virginia 3.4, Oriental/Turkish 3.4, Black Cavendish 3.3, Perique 3.3, Kentucky 3.1, Cavendish 3.1
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