Re: On stodgy, consistent, to some, boring posts here...

On 12/07/2011 10:27 PM, Bert Olton wrote:
This is really a minor point, but I want to say it anyway.

JtN has posited that Ed Duncan's daily postings to ASP are not
only boring, but are the reason so many members have left. I've
of course disagreed, but a thought just occurred to me. In my
brief rebuttal, I cited Sailorman Jack's postings, but I'd
forgotten another. Allen MacMillan.

Allen's posts, "...From Merry Old England" were always
exceedingly short and consistently similar, but they were
charming, warm and human, as were Sailorman Jack's, as are Ed's.

Those postings, from those folks, are something of the essence of
ASP, something of the essence of pipe smokers in general. No,
they're not the lifeblood of current trends in tobacco blending
or pipe design and architecture, but they are a bit of the life
blood of the human beings who smoke those and other (maybe
lesser) tobaccos in those and other (maybe lesser) pipes.

To the Allens, Jacks and Eds of ASP, thanks for your faithfulness
to the group.

+1

Cheers!

jim b.


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