From: "Mnsgr. Laszlo" <?????????????????>
Subject: Uhle's, and moving the Smokelist...

Salve', all!

	Steve, please change my address from ??????????????????????? to
??????????????????  I recently received my Bachelor's in Philospphy, so
my net access must now move from that Great Mouthful of a domain to a
pleasingly mnemonic, not to mention sarcastic, domain reminiscent of the
infamous alt.foo.bar.bar.bar newsgroup naming scheme -- a delightful
transition, methinks.  Natch, the Smokelist of ratings for imported and
luxury-brand cigarets has moved with me, tho' the "finger server" idea
seems to be a bit boondoggled here; I've got the file permissions (if
not persimmons) correct, but I've been getting reports of Osterized
results coming back when someone tries to finger my account.  I'd really
appreciate it if PD subscribers could give me some feedback on how my
account is returning "finger" inquiries.  Pals?  Some help?  (Oh, I will
suggest that piping to "more" [i.e. finger ????????????????? | more] is
advisable, as the Smokelist is several screens long.)

	Now, on other matters...

[somebody, I neglected to save whom] quoth:
> I know that it's listed in the Resource Guide, but my favorite pipe shop is
> Uhle's in Milwaukee.  The first time I entered Uhle's, I knew that I would
> love it.  There were about a dozen customers inside.  Most of them were
> smoking a pipe.  As I walked in, several of them either nodded in my
> direction or murmured a greeting.  Store personnel bustled about; one of them
> was smoking a maduro-wrapped churchill.  (I have been in an increasing number
> of smoke shops that don't permit smoking in the store, not because of local
> ordinances prohibiting it, but because non-smoking coffee-customers might be
> offended.  Makes sense, huh?)

	<sigh.> Uhle's is yet another of the reasons I regret ever having
left Milwaukee.  A swell lot, the whole crew of 'em.  I'd highly recommend
a trip to Uhle's (BTW, it's pronounced "YOU-lees") for anyone breezing
through Brewtown, especially if you can make it on a Thursday evening when
the shop stays open 'til 8pm for the clientele's weekly rite of tobacco-
stoked, after-work fraternization.  The place is downtown on the main
drag, Wisconsin Avenue, next to the Riverside Theatre and across from
Marshall Field's.  My favourite guys there are Jeff, who makes me think of
a former nine-to-fiver who made a wish for his dream-job and *got* it, and
Stan, the young, somewhat-anachronistic, jovial eccentric.  Tell 'em Tyson
(the guy with the cigaret list) sent ya.

	Check out the pipes in the display cases, especially the little
case in the middle of the floor -- bulldogs the size of a *billiard ball*;
an Ueliphant (sp?) pipe which has *no bend* from stem to bowl (!), just a
sweeping flare from bit to mouth, with a slight curve upward; an ancient
Dunhill trench lighter of ingeniously simple design; and then there's the
little silver box apparatus of indeterminate purpose (it has a trough-
shaped well under the top lid, and the side lid reveals a metal bottle
under the well with a wick kept under a tethered screw-top), which they
got as a freebie in a shipment, and which they've promised to give away to
anyone who can identify it authoritatively (no speculation; you've got to
*recognize* the blasted thing).  

> Uhle's has a plentiful supply of pipes and accessories.  They operate a small
> tobacco factory, where they hand-blend their pipe tobaccos.  I have purchased
> at least eight of their blends, aromatic and non-aromatic, and there wasn't a
> beast in the bunch!  They offer over two dozen of their own blends.

	Drop in anytime from about Thanksgiving to X-mas, when Uhle's has
their annual "Christmas Blend" available -- a "festively aromatic" blend,
different every year, sold only during that month-and-a-half or so (altho'
one of these proved so popular that it made it onto the regular menu; it
became their new "Brand X (Trapper's Treat)" after the old Brand X had to
be retired owing to the unavailability of a crucial ingredient).  Those of
us on Uhle's mailing list get a holiday postcard redeemable for a 1.5-oz.
pouch of the blend, gratis.  True, it may be mere test-marketing, but they
sure do it with class, no?

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