Sanding is like smoking cigars

No need trying to put on airs, Gerald. We all know you started with grape vine, upgraded to rabbit tobacco, then on to sweepings from covered bridges. Store bought stogies indeed! When wings went to 14 cents a pack, it was bull durham and cigarette paper for me, but sick as I've ever been was after swallowing a Brown's mule chew. That's when I quit. :)

The Japanese use bundles of 'end grain' reed instead of sandpaper to smooth their kokechi dolls. If you saved any King Edwards stubs, you might want to try one on your next spindle. :)

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

When I was in college, I started smoking a pipe. First, it was a cheap one that came with two packs of Middleton's Cherry Blend. Then, I moved up a notch or two. Soon, I was smoking a $90.00 Preben Holm Danish free-style and a few Ben Wades and a custom blend of tobacco.

I too, ran the cigar gambit. First King Edwards, then Roi-tans, then White Owls. Then, I wandered into a small tobacco shop at lunch time and wondered who in Hell would pay $2.55 for a damned cigar? (A nice Macanudo, at that.) I bought it and never looked back. Absolutely no comparison! No more King Edwards, Roi-tans or White Owls for me. Maybe an occasional Dutch Masters in a real pinch. I never smoked very many cigars, but a good Macanudo or Partagas is mighty hard to beat. You get what you pay for, be it lathes, sandpaper or cigars!

Barry

Or beer, for that matter. I didn't get a taste for it until I was about 24, and I was hanging out with a real snooty crowd- so now I have a hard time drinking anything that comes in a big brightly-colored 30 pack. I get a lot of squintly looks from the guys after work when they're drinking a case of Busch Lite each, and I've got a six pack of Summit or Goose Island.

But it's like you say- you get what you pay for. When I have a beer, I like it to be beer- and not some kind of lightly-flavored water.

That last one I'm not familiar with. Do you mean when horses pulled the vehicles? You may have smoked dried horse apples but not me. The bridges weren't covered in South Georgia, anyway.

Prometheus, Prometheus - I bet you ride a BMW and roll your eyes at Harleys :).

TomNie Icehouse - but the house is paid for. (OK I'm sliding, maybe a Yuengling Black & Tan occasionally or some other dark beer especially at a "beer" joint)

When I was 14 I smoked a cigarette in the Gods at the Chiswick Empire, it was so bloody disgusting I never ever went near another one, and I cannot understand why anyone smokes at all.

Alan

Hi Gerald, So much for regional humor and the www. Probably some turner, somewhere is wondering if you really smoked kings and owls. :) No covered bridges in North Florida, so I haven't smoked the sweepings either. I had heard the expression in Northern Maine, meaning he'll smoke anything. No moose in N. Fl. either, but in parts of N.E. "he'll eat a moose stool if it's covered with catsup" used to have a similar connotation.

Turn to Safety, Arch Fortiter

You are a man after my own hart. I suppose you are from back east, maybe Chicago area?????? I live in California about 15 min from Disneyland. One day my wife goes into the can food store (discount outlet) and buys me some Goose Island Christmas ale, since my nickname at work has been Goose. That was the start of all my problems, ice cold after work lug, lug ahhhhh. She buys some more then there is none left and she talks with the guy that stocks the cases "no ma mm, we don't have any more I finally got rid of that stuff". I cried big tears. Now I have to wait for Christmas. I have been to their web sit and drooled over their other beers. It is a brewery in Chicago and I have not seen any other here. My youngest son has gotten into home brewing and for fathers day bought me a selection of beers. I like the Porters and the best is Young's Oatmeal Stout. Buds and MGD's have not been the same since. Like anything once you have the good stuff it is hard to go back. Next time you have a Goose Island beer think of the guy in California that is waiting for Christmas. My next Oatmeal Stout, I will toast your good health were ever you may be.

Bruce

Prometheus wrote:

Now you guys haven't come close to dying until you rolled your own cigar right out of the barn green tobacco, lit it up and had to smoke the daggone thing right in front of the big guys when you were all of 8 years old in South Georgia. When you got through pukiing up stuff you think you ate 2 months ago, coming close to going into a coma, and promising God if he would let you live you would never, never, never smoke any of that stuff again you had to go home and tell your Mama the reason you had a green hue and a little cross eyed was because you had been eating green plums. I am 64 years old, and I will remember that cigar until the day I die. No sir, no more cigars for me I smoked cigaretts when I turned about 15 until about a year ago. Glenn....breathing better but still craving Nashville, GA

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Look for some Black Butte porter. If I can find it in Spokane you shou ld be able to in L.A..

About 5 hours north of Chicago. Close enough for it to be a semi-local brand. Of course, work takes me to the Chigaco area a lot, so it'd almost be fair to say that I live there as well these days.

Ahhh... Now, if you get the chance- the Nut Brown Ale is a thing to be savored. The 312 is junk- may as well drink any given domestic lager and save some $$$. The Honker's Ale used to be really good, but I think they changed the brew- either that, or my tastes changed. Too bad they don't have it near you, it's a pretty good brewery. OTHO, if you can get Summit Extra Pale, that's even better (especially with peanuts)

Sure will. I'd offer to send you a six pack, but I don't know that it'd make the trip intact all that way.

Nah. I drive a Ford and keep a '76 Honda in my dad's basement for some future time when I get around to putting blinkers and a new chain on it. I'm actually pretty thrifty about everything but tools, sushi, and beer. Gotta splurge on some things, or else all that overtime isn't worth a damn.

See, now there ya go- I'm not familiar with the Yuengling Black and Tan, but I'm always up for a Bass (or Harp) and Guiness combo. Puts me right to sleep, though.