Thread: Pipe of the Day

Today a Vauen

Originally Posted by eTom

Today a Vauen

Tomorrow the WORLD !!!

Nice pipe, Thomas. Btw, what brand are your binoculars?

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Tomorrow the WORLD !!!

Why not?
I think the "world" means for all of us the world of social network.
All of us met a lot of people around the world because of facebook and several forums.
...and sometimes we meet this new friends in the real world too.

Originally Posted by Sailor

Nice pipe, Thomas. Btw, what brand are your binoculars?

thx Tomi. It is a EDF 7x40
Zeiss Jena, former German Democratic Republic.
I used it in the Army and as a Police Officer.

It works very well. Over the years I only changed the rubber-parts.

Some haunted bookshop in my Roma for the ride in today. Great pics etom and sailor. It's always cool to see events and military hardware around the world.

Hello Everyone!
I know that many of us are in search of good books to read while smoking a pipe, and I've just found a gem. It's called Pipe and Pouch, The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry. I found it in iTunes while searching for books and have added it to my collection on my iPad. It is a collection of poetry and stories about the appreciation of our hobby, compiled by a fellow pipe smoker named Joseph Knight. I'm not sure if it's on Kindle (too lazy to check right now), but it seems like a very enjoyable read. I'll list a few of the names of the poems in this almost 300 page collection.

Ashes - De Witt Sterry
Brief Puff of Smoke - A Selim
Choosing a wife by a Pipe of Tobacco - Gentleman's Magazine
Confession of a Cigar Smoker - Anon
Dreamer's Pipe - The New Orleans Times Democrat
Farmer's Pipe - The George Cooper
Geordie to his Tobacco Pipe - George S. Phillips
Invocation to Tobacco - Henry James Mellen
Last Pipe - The London Spectator
Latakia - T.B. Aldrich

and so on, and so on.....

If someone has already posted on this book, I'm sorry for the repeat. I just thought you all might be interested in enjoying a book like this, since I know I would.

I'll leave you with the first poem in the book.

With Pipe and Book

With Pipe and Book at close of day,
Oh, what is sweeter, mortal, say?
It matters not what book on knee,
Old Izaak or the Odyssey,
It matters not meerschaum or clay.

And though one's eyes will dream astray,
And lips forget to sue or sway,
It is "enough to merely be,"
With Pipe and Book.

What though our modern skies be gray,
As bards aver, I will not pray
For "soothing Death" to succor me,
But ask this much, O Fate, of thee,
A little longer yet to stay
With Pipe and Book

-Richard Le Gallienne

Nice find! For us who do not use iTunes the book can be found from Project Gutenberg

If anyone would like, I've created a PDF of the book. This should allow anyone with an e-reader (iPad, nook, kindle, etc.) to read the book. PM me and I'll send you a copy.

My Saturday.