Rereading The Hobbit & Shire life makes me want to take up pipesmoking

Anyone else entertain that little slice of sinful habit? I can still smell the cherry and vanilla tobacco my granddad would pack in the bowel and light. He gave it up at some point in his early 60s though.

Posted: 01/15/2021 at 09:20AM

Rereading The Hobbit & Shire life makes me want to take up pipesmoking -- One4VT 01/15/2021 09:20AM

Used to hang out the windows in Cochrane smoking some Cobblestone tobacky -- 3011Cochrane 01/15/2021 2:29PM

I used to hang out the window in Cochrane and smoke... -- Hokie CPA 01/15/2021 5:58PM

I took one hit off a hookah my sophomore year. -- One4VT 01/15/2021 4:15PM

SHUN -- 3011Cochrane 01/15/2021 4:16PM

Big difference between smell and taste - same with coffee ** -- HokieMacDaddy 01/15/2021 11:59AM

I remember my mom, on long car trips, filling, tamping and lighting a pipe -- coshokie 01/15/2021 11:58AM

If ya got to do it while driving, thats a problem -- One4VT 01/15/2021 12:05PM

I only remember that happening 3-4 times my whole childhood but it stuck -- coshokie 01/15/2021 12:12PM

And to be that guy. The risks are in the Link! -- UTPr0sim 01/15/2021 11:32AM

Thanks Debbie! -- One4VT 01/15/2021 11:47AM

My old man used Middleton Cherry Blend in his pipe, and I used to love to -- Hokie CPA 01/15/2021 11:19AM

Among others, I can remember my dad smoking Borkum Riff. Not sure if it -- coshokie 01/15/2021 11:42AM

Its literally what I think of when I remember my granddad in my childhood ** -- One4VT 01/15/2021 11:27AM

Read it a few times, not sure I have one more in me. -- `lag 01/15/2021 10:59AM

This thread brings to mind one thing . . . -- RhinoVT 01/15/2021 10:50AM

Nerds don't smoke ** -- One4VT 01/15/2021 11:07AM

Why did Granddad put that stuff up his hiney? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 01/15/2021 10:25AM

To make his farts smell better? ** -- Hokerer 01/15/2021 10:29AM

I think seeing Basic Instinct 28 years ago caused my bad habits. ** -- two91hokies 01/15/2021 10:16AM

I don't think those hobbits were smoking tobacco in those pipes. -- Fatman 01/15/2021 10:08AM

That's almost certain. Tolkien based the Shire on provincial English life.. -- One4VT 01/15/2021 11:20AM

That would certainly explain second breakfast and elevensies. ** -- Tafkam Hokie 01/15/2021 10:20AM

They were not. ** -- hoosnowahokie 01/15/2021 10:13AM

Had a meerschaum pipe back in college. Carved with a face on it IIRC. -- Brown Water 01/15/2021 10:07AM

Still recall it from my grandfather too, but he died of cancer at barely 60 -- Vtskier1 01/15/2021 10:05AM

My dad smoked a pipe for many years - yep remember that cherry smell -- FfxStationHokie 01/15/2021 09:45AM

Rereading The Hobbit & Shire life makes me want to take up pipesmoking

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