Thread: Pipe of the Day

Looks nice,but I'm saving up for another pipe. So.......what's up with the upside down Pics ??? Oh and nice pipe also.

Got meer? Smoke 'em in March. Show your love for the white lady.

I am kicking off March Meer Madness 2014 with a Yanik cabbage floral monster pipe + University Flake. You in? Show your clay and smoke the piss out of it in March.

MrMoo. That's a hell of a pipe. I mean the size. Looks very nice!

Just spending a lazy late friday eve with pipe, book & beer. About to smoke JF Germain's Rich Dark #2 from Barling meer.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

Pardon my ignorance, but what's the story behind the payouts ?

You'd about have to live in a tobacco-producing state to know that the jig is up. A short answer is not easy but I try:

Over 50 years NC went from poverty to wealth on the strength of controlled tobacco prices and artifically limited tobacco acres.
Wealth (for certain tobacco growers) followed when a system of tobacco acreage quotas and price supports were enacted.
If you had quota assigned (in acres) you could grow only that much tobacco and it WOULD be bought.
If you didn't use your quota to produce you could rent it (and do nothing except collect a check) or sell it.*
10 years ago price controls were phased out along with the associated auction system.
The quota system was eliminated so, now, whoever wants to grow tobacco can.
Without the auction system you cannot necessarily sell your crop or sell it at a profit.
Growers generally now contract directly with processors.
To transition from known sale of a crop (or income from quota rental, etc.) NC "bought out" quota from farmers over 10 years.
Farmers with quota have been getting money for the past decade whether they produce a bale, a leaf or nothing at all.
Smart guys are trying out new crops (like spuds for booze) but nothing much except dope gives a return per acre like tobacco did.
NC now has a burgeoning organic farming community, vineyards, specialty crops, etc. to try to replace tobacco.
I think big farmers will come out OK and small farmers are screwed if they're not lucky, efficient, hard-working and creative.

I hope I explained this correctly, in brief. Any growers out there who know better, please criticize my summary without reservations.


*It has been said a Carolina tobacco growers most profitable piece of farm equipment was his mailbox. A tobacco season was usually profitable, very hard work and short. Farmers used to work their butts off, sell their crop, make a bundle and go on welfare until the next spring. The only thing farmers have for sure now is working their butts off.

I knew someone would have already had my great idea.

Would You Drink Tobacco Flavored Vodka? -- Fusion.

Originally Posted by MisterMoo

Got meer? Smoke 'em in March. Show your love for the white lady.

I am kicking off March Meer Madness 2014 with a Yanik cabbage floral monster pipe + University Flake. You in? Show your clay and smoke the piss out of it in March.

Watch the road! You wouldn't want the airbags to go off with that in your mouth.

Originally Posted by 32t

I knew someone would have already had my great idea.

Would You Drink Tobacco Flavored Vodka? -- Fusion.

No offense but, BLeeeccchhh ! I like smoking my tobacco not drinking it. Sorry.

So a thanks to Spacemonkey Jon out there for the little lat bomb sampler he just sent me. I do like these English blends. maybe the folks around me may not ha ha. I like how they don't bite hardly at all. At least so far anyway. Smoking some Rattrays accountants mixture right now in the Viking sitter. Oh and by the way @Jon..really liking that packing method,it's been workin out pretty good for me..thanks again.

Next up a bowl of Sutliff private stock,Mans best friend in another Viking ...No bad at'all .Sutliff Private Stock Man's Best Friend - PipesandCigars.com

Originally Posted by Sailor

I've been in most of those European countries and they are surely worth visiting. However i've never been in Russia, Canada or USA.
We seem to have little disagreements with wifey who liked to visit USA. While she liked to see New York i'm more interest to see Yellowstone or route 66. Not to mention of Canada where's lot of Finnish immigrants. Would be nice to see the northern coast of Newfoundland, how the sea looks there.

My late great uncle lived as a car salesman in Ft Lauerdale Florida. Also reminds me of my grandfather. He travelled as a tourist to Russia at 1970 or so and when the border guards asked if he's been in Russia before he said no. To me he explained he told that he was one of those cutting the Murmansk railroad and burning the Russian recruit centers in Carelia. At the age of 17.

Sorry for the late reply. I've been out of the loop for a bit. Playing catch up now. I was the same as you Tomi, but strangely enough, I found myself liking New York in my visit to the US and many of it's states and NP's including Yellowstone etc.

Originally Posted by spacemonkeyjon

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I should try and take some photo's of the display at my local RSL (Returned Services League). We have a few military items of interest in the cabinets there, including a couple of razors. . No pipes that I know of, but if I have abetter look, I might find one or two. We're still in the middle of refurbing.

Originally Posted by MisterMoo

Got meer? Smoke 'em in March. Show your love for the white lady.

I am kicking off March Meer Madness 2014 with a Yanik cabbage floral monster pipe + University Flake. You in? Show your clay and smoke the piss out of it in March.

I don't own a meer, but I'll break out a clay later on in the month p'rap's.


Mick