Re: Clenchers

Briarroot <briarroot@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charles wrote:
On Feb 9, 8:25 am, Briarroot <briarr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yep. There are holders and there are clenchers. I'm a holder too. ;-)


I balance mine in-between my teeth without chomping down. Sometimes I
clench
sometimes I hold. George Herment in his book The Pipe frowns upon the
idea of one not keeping
their hands on the pipe at all times even when in the mouth. Stating
how fops clench a pipe in their
mouth while holding a cane in one hand and gloves in the other.


Fops? FOPS, did you say? Egad! Those popinjay dandies smoke pipes?
Why the very idea... HARRUMPH!

;-)

"I don't *want* Fop, I'm a Dapper Dan man!"

--
the pipe is lit, but nobody is home.
.

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