From: ?????????????????????? (Jonathon Davis)
Subject: 1000th Member Acceptance and Thanks

Steve,  first I want to apologize for this belated response to the news that
I am the 1,000th member in the Pipes Digest -- I will carry the baton well,
rest assured.  Secondly, I want to express my gratitude for your efforts in
maintaining an excellent place for all Pipe smokers from around the world to
enjoy virtual friendships and discussions on the subject of pipes and
tobaccos.  It seems strange that two disparate arenas such as technology and
tobacco can combine so well, IMHO. 

About myself,  I live in Atlanta and work for a Fortune 40 company as the
manager of a client server software development group.  I've traipsed around
the Southeast over the past 15 years from Atlanta to Tampa to Orlando where
I worked for the immortal mouse but found that I couldn't take the heat and
humidity anymore so returned to the fair city of Atlanta.  Unfortunately,
the past year was upsetting as I experienced divorce and the resulting
financial burden of an unsold house and other miscellaneous items -- alas a
good bowl has often been there to soothe me over these long months.   

My pipe collection is not extensive but improving as I just purchased a
nice slightly bent Peterson but, clumsily, managed to set myself on fire
with a christening bowl of St. Bruno.  I've since been babying it with
Dunhill's Early Morning Pipe and a rather light mellow blend from
McClelland's,  Mixture No. 8.   I mostly enjoy English blends that have a
dry crisp character and that burn well.  A bowl of  965, a glass of fine
Scotch, and the Pipes Digest have often been best friends with me over the
past few months.

Thanks again Steve for the Pipes Digest.

Jonathon Davis

[ Jonathon, we're pleased to have you as our #1000 member. Thank you!
And the 999 before you, and the others who came after. And who still
find us every day. -S. ]


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                       Today's Snappy Comeback:

(To a dog-walker in the park:) "Sure. Say, there's something on the
bottom of my shoe. Could you kind of flick it off for me?" 

                                - From "101 Ways to Answer the
                                  Question, 'Would You Please Put Out
                                  that #(!&*!$ Cigar'," Hague et. al.,
                                  1987. 

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