From: "Jacco van Muiswinkel" <??????????????????????>
Subject:       1000 Virtual Smokes 

Now what happened to the celebration of the 1000th member.

I do have an idea. I think it's mostly the work of our maintainer 
that Pipes Digest could have grown to the impressive number of 1000 
(and more) members. Moreover I think that the quality of the Digest 
also finds it origins in our moderator. His conscientious approach
to the digest is IMHO the sole reason for the chivalrous character of 
all the postings and reactions. 

I think Steve should be honoured for his efforts. Now it's hard to 
organize something material but since we're on the Internet it may be 
right to offer Steve a Virtual Smoke to endorse this statement!

Here's mine:
                                             / \ /
       ,___________                         | \ /
       ;----------__~--__                 __________
                     ~-_  ~--__          |          |
                         ~-_    ~--_     |          |
                            ~-_  /  ~--_/           |
                                ~-_                 |
                                    ~~-_            /
                                         ~~--_____--

To your health, Steve!                 
   
Jacco van Muiswinkel         | 
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[ Well, thanks, Jacco! Is that a single dot I see on the stem? My
first Dunhill! -S. ]


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