Two Emails I Received This Morning
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I would concur.
I would change to dysfunctional dystopian wasteland though.
Your last post is not one I can Like or Dislike.
Many of us are getting older and have more tobacco on hand than we can smoke. That is the sad truth on our mortality.
Tnx for the update. Although I understand that as a business you have to do what you have to do, it doesn't mean we have to like it.
I, like @motie2 , have more tobacco than my life will probably allow me to get through.
But I do feel disappointment for those younger than myself that have many more years of pipe smoking to look forward to.
My only advice to them is to, "fill their cellars"...
On the flip side, it does make me feel both grateful and fortunate to have over 50 years of being able to experience such a wide variety of blends.
That being said, here's what I found I have on hand of unopened tin tobaccos. It doesn't include what I currently have opened or what I have in jars.
I have 80 unopened tins of tobacco. There are a total of 63 different blends as I have multiple tins of 10 blends. (This is the result of my habit of buying two tins of a new blend, smoke one and cellaring the other.)
I was surprised to find out how few of what I have are blends affected by the decimation of MacBaren and Sutliff. I have one tin of MacBaren Black Ambrosia. I have four tins of Sutliff branded blends. I have 5 tins of Seattle Pipe Club Blends.
I guess my point is, I'm not going to really miss the MacBaren and Sutliff blends that are disappearing. I will miss Seattle Pipe Club blends if they don't find a new company to do the manufacturing. Note: I went online last night and ordered four ounces of Plum Pudding Special Reserve and two ounces of Plum Pudding Barrel Aged.)
All of us are getting older 😉
... and none of us are getting out of here alive! 😯
Youth is wasted on the young.
Wait….that ain’t funny
I got a new president - and I don't care whether you like him or not, he is our President. Keep your comments to yourself.
I have also been given extremely cold weather for south Louisiana and we are expecting from 4 to 8-inches of snow starting later tonight.
The cold and snow doesn't bother me
Your liberalness has caused you to misinterpret my comment.
My comment about him being our President is just a statement of fact. President Trump is the President of the entire nation inclusive of everyone.
It is your right as an American citizen to not like the duly elected by a majority President. (Allow me to assume that you don't like him because you are "in LAX".)
I will also admit that you may interpret the First Amendment as giving you to right to comment how you want. (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.)
However, I am not Congress nor the U.S. Government. I also know that the right of free speech is not absolute. Courts have ruled that a person cannot go into a crowded theater and yell "FIRE" when there is not a fire. And, as a Dean of Journalism once said in a lecture, "The right to free speech does not protect a journalist from being fired if his publisher doesn't like what he says."
Anyway, you have the right to make any comment you want. I have the right to not want to hear or read your comment.
As for me being in the wrong place, I am an avid contributor to discussions on this forum. I don't just occasionally pop in to make a snide remark or promote a pipe show.
Edit: You are correct though. A forum is not the place to be if I don't want comments.
Most of what I have in stock are aromatics and I've found that when I open a "new" factory sealed tin, it is still fresh and moist. It's only when it sits around after I've opened it do I notice a difference.
I do have a number of blends that I can't remember why I bought them because they are ones I don't typically smoke. That being said, I recently opened to tins that I purchased seven years ago and was surprised by how much I enjoyed them.