Stumbled across this hilarious clip from Top Gear (great British show about all things automotive) where the boys are skewering Porsche Design Pipes. Funniest part I found to be when Jeremy Clarkson, being his witty self, flips the pipe around places the bowl in his mouth proclaiming that it is a 911 pipe and the “hot bit goes in the back.” Kind of backfires on him if you’ll pardon the pun.

I stumbled across the Blog of Dan Piraro, the creator of the syndicated carton “Bizarro” and though perhaps our fellow pipe smokers out there would get a kick out of this. If you don’t get “Bizarro” in your local newspaper, you should send a letter to the editor to get it added. As the title suggests, the humor in his single-panel strips could be best considered skewed and a bit out there but who else would come up with idea of a pug trying to legitimize their owner’s bad taste by adding an ascot and a pipe to complete...

Newsbiscuit.com is reporting in this posting that a recent British statistical survey has shown that  for the first time in the history of these studies, the usage of Crack Pipes is not outpacing the usage of Tobacco Pipes! The end of the civilized world is near! Of course the survey resorts to rash generalizations about the type of person who smokes a tobacco pipe: Old fashioned pipes are still popular with certain types of older bearded men; model railway enthusiasts, canal barge restorers and the like, but curiously these tend to be among the least likely people...

Planning on being in California's central valley this weekend? Why not plan on meeting up with us at the Tenth Annual Northern California Pipe and Cigar Show in Merced on Saturday, November 10th? Tom and Mike will be venturing north to exhibit (and hopefully sell) a great selection of our meerschaum and estate pipes at this venerable show. We'll also be bringing along a bunch of tobacco sampler sets as well as one of the hottest products that we're selling these days: Thunderbird Butane Lighter Inserts from Vector. This show, sponsored as always by the Fresno and Merced Pipe Clubs,...