What Pipe-pipe tobacco did you smoke today? (2026)

[Bamabaccy8a]

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2026



Here in Greece, on December 31st exactly at 12, we turn off the lights and exchange wishes-hugs-kisses among ourselves. Shortly after or the next day, on the morning of January 1st, it is customary to cut a specially made pie, the Vasilopita which has a coin inside. The name comes from Saint Basil (from Caesarea in Asia Minor, which was once a Byzantine city). First, we cut a piece for Christ, the house, the poor, the Saint and then one for each member of the family.
If the family is small, then we also cut a piece for the animal, one for the car-motorcycle, so the whole pie will finished. If the coin falls on a member of the family it brings good luck, if it falls on someone else, it is a blessing for it, this year for us it fell between the piece of Christ and our house.

PS: As you can see, the sugar powder didn't hold up well on the top of the pie, usually the top is white as snow. It doesn't matter, may we all be well and healthy this year, i wish you all health and have good smoking for all the 2026!

I see no pie here but a very belated happy new year all the same. Sid, what is the thing to the extreme left here, look like large strung beads..what purpose do those serve here?

 

[deluxestogie]

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Bob

 

[DaleB]

Sitting out the storm and tornado warning on the new covered, screened deck with some 50/50 VA and Burley in a cob… with a wee dram to go with it.

 

[TigerTom]

A late night with a little Stokkebye 702.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Salutes from Athens-Greece, we have sun and 78 'F here.

I found something relative about pipe smoking.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
At 1969, the captain in this film was pipe smoker and at least one of his crew was cigar smoker.

The Greek Archimedes (287 BC – 212 B) supposedly had a chain watch

and wore a wrist watch from an SS officer.

In real life at that time Archimedes had a today's style ''cuckoo" hydraulic watch in his house (invented by him)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8Keq2eOGEo


and as many prominent Greeks a portable disc style watch. In the square and in some public building had other style of watches (in daylight) in ancient Gr towns.
Plato had a hydraulic ''whistle sound" watch and Aristotle an hydraulic ''knock sound" watch.

I am smoking Danish Mixture Orange Coco in a Brebbia, double Greek coffee plus cool water beside me. We have sun with 78 'F here in Athens.