ACTIVE KIDNEYS AND OTHER THINGS

Pipe club met today. Only eight people, but I was up to my elbows. though I did manage to clean three big pipes of good makes the size of which said that the previous owner had a miniscule manhood and was desperate to compensate. Big BIG pipes, tiny TINY manhood. People like that should really smoke mango passionfruit chocolate cavendish so that the rest of us know to stay the heck away. Look, if you were smoking those pipes in public I should be embarassed to be anywhere near you. If you smoked that tobacco in public I would be nowhere in sight.

"Oh I just love the smell of your tobacco, it reminds me of my granddad!"

Lady, your granddad was a ruddy pervert. He probably smoked clan.

On the other hand, my pipetobacco brings an Oxford man to mind. See, it's civilized. Would go well with a spot of sherry. While reading a very literate murder mystery. After tea time.

If the author was masculine, probably a Balkan blend. If she was a lady, more than likely a nice aged Virginia or a refined flake. With just a wee bit of Perique.
Ogden's Gold Block, if they're undecided.
This is just a theory.


Perhaps the pipe club would be interested in me giving a little lecture about this. Lord knows, we've happily heard about steamship races, Scottish distilleries, the Boer War, gold panning in the Sierras, small automobiles, curry, kidney stones, boat building ...

Shortly after I finished lunch miss A.A. came by to see me. We talked about Seiko watches, delightful black market Chinese cigarettes with a dried tangerine peel frangrance flavour capsule, and various things like that. So that was enjoyable. Mr. Y. was also there. My pipe expertise was needed, What kind of pipe is this? Is it Danish? Indeed, it's a Stanwell Golden Sovereign, characteristic shape, one or two letters of the stamping are still visible. And both of those GBDs are extraordinairy.


Most of the working day I was zipped to the gills on caffeine. Two cups of coffee before leaving home, about six or seven cups of tea and some more coffee while at work.
I'm home now, with a cup of coffee within arms reach.
Probably crashing soon.


Coffee, as you know, is a very efficient diuretic.
Tea far less so.



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