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OUR PIPES - great huffing, puffing (and bluffing) machines
"Many genuine philosophers smoke pipes. The reason is probably self-evident: if you are asked a really awkward
question, or are otherwise put on the spot, all you have to do is take the pipe out of an inside pocket (you will find that
this makes the inside pocket particularly disgusting after a few days: but bluffers must suffer for their art, like everyone
else), after making some preliminary remark such as: 'Well, the really important thing about that seems to me at least to
be', and set about lighting it.
You can make this operation last five minutes with no difficulty, and much longer with practice, and, provided you
interject the occasional comment of an entirely non-committal nature as you knock, clean, scrape, blow through,
dismantle, reassemble, load, pack, tamp, light, draw on, re-light, re-tamp, draw on again, and emit large and noxious
clouds of smoke from the pipe, no one will suspect that you are playing for time. Do this well enough, and you can avoid
having to answer the question at all.
Other props and social tics... have their uses, but none of them beats the pipe, which also manages for some reason to
make whoever is smoking it look knowledgeable." - Jim Hankinson - Bluff Your Way in Philosophy (Ravette Publishing, 1985)

NAME YER POISON, MATEYS!
Then, "Stick it in yer pip 'n smok it!"

So, our breath smells like a baboon's bum. Fret not!
The advert below proves pipe smoking is the key to
attracting members of the opposite sex. (Driving a
ragtop doesn't hurt either, aye Bridgette?)

"I believe that pipe smoking
contributes to a somewhat
calm and objective judgement
in all human affairs."

- Albert Einstein, 1950

Of course we could all be totally unoriginal and rely on the folks of...
● Tobacco Reviews , but what's the fun in that? To boot,
they've sometimes steered me terribly wrong.
So? Lend us your wisdom!

● History of Tobacco - by Gene Boria - 150 pages
from Toltecs to Tobacco Bans. (.pdf - 650 KB)

● Mac Baren Flake - History, Manufacture & use

Really, let's get some of that hog... er, wisdom, we
hear at Club meetings in print!

E-mail your Tabak-Wisdom to the Webmaster.

"Diplomacy is entirely a question of the weed. I can
always settle a quarrel if I know beforehand whether
the plenipotentiarysmokes Cavendish, Latakia, or Shag."
-Lord Clarendon (English Foreign Secretary)

CHURCHILLS OF NORWICH
Fine pipe tobaccos
32 St Andrew's Street, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4AF
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To order:
1. Phone or Fax Keith on +44 (0)1603 626437
2. Or e-mail keith.garrard@ntlworld.com