Your favorite pipe smoking celeb (L or D)

[BlewSmoke.com]

Originally Posted by Highstump

Not only was Disney a pipe smoker, he used to have tobacco shops in the park. Pipes stamped with the Disney logo and "Walt Disney Productions" could be purchased there along with several tinned tobacco blends with a Disneyland label. (I have no idea who made the pipes or blended the tobacco.)

Of course, that was back before we knew that second hand smoke would kill all small children within 500 feet of the smoker.

Found this interesting:

http://www.yesterland.com/tobaccoshop.html

[petewho]

Herf here: http://www.clubstogie.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=37

A herf is a gathering of BOTLs (brothers of the leaf). If all goes as planned some friends/family of mine will also be out there the same time so there may be a couple more cigar smokers. With the tri going on, it shouldn't be too tough to find a hot gal also (I always see many at these events).

Herfs seem to be a lot more common on the cigar boards. Haven't seen much mention of them here. I've been on CS since May or June and been to about four herfs so far.

Herf often

[haggis]

C.S. Lewis, definitely. Bing is a must as well.

[Art Pemberton]

Originally Posted by Phil The Thrill

Bing Crosby: Because he's Bing Crosby.

Bing Crosby is likely the person who inspired me to start smoking pipes years ago. I actually have one of his pipes he gave me back in the seventies.

[Dedalus]

Stephen Fry


Charlie Mingus


Pablo Picasso - or at least a painting of his (Garçon à la Pipe) - which fetched US$104,168,000 at Sotheby's auction in New York City in 2004.


And perhaps even Anthony Hopkins's character in Legends of the Fall


Other fictional pipe smokers I've run across in the past couple of days:
Henry Smart, from Roddy Doyle's A Star Called Henry - he uses a disguise as a traveling salesman for Kapp and Petersen to get around Dublin (he's wanted for his part in the 1916 uprising).
And Policeman MacCruiskeen in Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman

[Dedalus]

duplicate

[MedicCook]

I would have to say Sherlock Holmes.

[morefifemusicanyone]

Originally Posted by Dedalus

Charlie Mingus

Mingus is beyond us mere mortals. He is a Bass god.

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by morefifemusicanyone

Mingus is beyond us mere mortals. He is a Bass god.

In the spirit of good music (see my icon), my pipe smoking idol is saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton. I'd go broke faster collecting all his music than I would only buying Dunhill pipes! The guy has got to be one of the most prolific recording artists ever.

[Johan.Stockholm]

I would have to say Stephen Fry. Fascinating man.

/JS

[Dedalus]

Stephen Fry is still up there, but now that I see Jacques Derrida was a pipe smoker, I'll have to put him in the top three:

[Emjaysmash]

I Kinda see a theme between Bass masters and Pipes....Hmmmmm

[morefifemusicanyone]

Originally Posted by dmkerr

In the spirit of good music (see my icon), my pipe smoking idol is saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton. I'd go broke faster collecting all his music than I would only buying Dunhill pipes! The guy has got to be one of the most prolific recording artists ever.

I am not much of a Saxophone fan, but I will have to check it out.

I am assuming since he is also a composer that it is likely he is primarily Jazz (watchout for my biased stereotyped view of all saxaphonists as 80s rock ban wannabes).

I'm always up for some good Jazz.

Lately, I have been digging Andrew Hill. Good music to smoke by. Gotta go check if he smoked pipe.

-Tyler

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by morefifemusicanyone

I am not much of a Saxophone fan, but I will have to check it out.

I am assuming since he is also a composer that it is likely he is primarily Jazz (watchout for my biased stereotyped view of all saxaphonists as 80s rock ban wannabes).

I'm always up for some good Jazz.

Lately, I have been digging Andrew Hill. Good music to smoke by. Gotta go check if he smoked pipe.

-Tyler

Braxton actually did a couple of discs of Andrew Hill's music within the last few years. Yeah, he's a jazz composer but it's hard to recommend any of his CD's to someone who's taste I'm not intimately familiar with. Braxton is kinda "out there". Shoot me a PM and I'll make you a sampler CD. It might help your further explorations or it might save you some money instead!

[Dedalus]

Just found out Irish playwright Sean O'Casey smoked a pipe, so he takes over the top of my list.

Stumbled upon this famous pipe smokers blog, it's fantastic:

Famous Pipe Smokers