A GOOD SOLID FLAKE

Got out of the house late. Early dinner at the place with the pregnant woman. Who looks ready to pop any moment now. No, I have not said anything about that. Life is hard enough already, then you give birth. And you're stuck with what came out of your stomach till it's college age. With a bit of luck it will learn to wipe it's own bottom very fast.

Over the weekend someone commented that the lovely Chinese cigarette packs I'd showed him seemed like they were pretty enough to attract the young, but fortunately his kids (in the parked car outside) just HATED smoking and would never touch them.

I told him that they seemed to be on the right track, and had he cracked the window?

Privately I thought that they were abnormal little squidgies.


Kids, if you're going to smoke, not that you should heaven forfend, but if against all the harsh puritanical haranguing of your elders and betters who have been through the wringer and finally succeeded in quiting you start, make sure that it's classy.

Many famous authors were lifelong pipe smokers.
The list of names is endless.


Avoid cheap stogies, and aromatic cavendish.

Several of the most popular pipe tobaccos are little more than massage parlour stinkers, the kind of thing people of discernement would not be caught dead applying to their armpits or that little area behind the ears. They dominate the market, beckoning the unwary tasteless and depraved with their siren stench. Faugh.


Far better that you should smoke smuggled-in luxury fags.
That's an altogether more lovable affectation.
Did you see the lovely pack art?
Tempting, isn't it?


Unfortunately, you will need to learn how to speak Cantonese for you to have access to those. It's worth it, indeed, but entirely beyond many Anglo Americans. Sorry.
So instead acquire a few good briars and some Rattray's tobaccos.
Do not read L.O.T.R., it's longwinded jejune poofle.



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