About Naming My Pipes

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 Before I go any further, today is my son's birthday and I'll give a shout out to him this morning.  I read a blog post about a pipe smoker who named his pipes.  I never gave it a thought.  I'm not into naming my cars, nor have I given much thought to giving proper names to anything I own.  I did give it some thought however, as I was smoking my newest Nording yesterday, to having another name for it aparr from my newest Nording.  I have two Nording pipes apart from my Angel pipe that I have a difficult time distinguishing for my posts here.  I hesitate to say one of my Nording pipes is a birthday pipe, because my Angel pipe is actually my birthday pipe and the other I purchased a few weeks after my birthday.

I just refer to my pipes by manufacturer, style, and/or number, if they have one.  I thought about names for my pipes, if I were to name them, but am not so sure what those names would be.  Yesterday, I was smoking my newest Nording and I was looking at to whether Nording had a name for it.  There is a number 3 stamped on it, indicating that is a three series pipe.  And instead of my saying it is my newest Nording, I could just call it my "Number 3" pipe.

Today I decided to smoke my Sherlock Holmes pipe again.  I could just call that my Sherlock pipe since I don't have anything like that one.  I just don't know.  I am not into naming things, like cars or pipes or anything else, but I'll name a pet, of course, or my kids, or my wife, although she had a name before I knew her.  But coming up with names for a few pipes might not be too difficult. 

Since I bought my Gettysburg estate pipe with the three fingers and a thumb carved into the bowl, I could call that my "Colonel pipe."  I have a Meerschaum pioe from Turkey I could call "The Turk."  My Lee Van Cleef Meerschaum could be "Mr. Lee."  And I could go on and on.  But a Peterson System Standard 307 is a very unique description for that pipe, although, if I could just call it "Pete" or something like that, then I would at least know what it is.  

I have only one Churchwarden pipe, and that one I could call "Father O'Brien." Or "The Vicar,"or some other name related to chirch work.  I could call it "Deac," short for "Deacon."  I could go on and on through my some 35 pipes and try to figure out a name for each one, but those are my more unique pipes.  The fact is I would like to name my pipes, but I would need a cross-reference guide to remember which is which.  

Well, those are my thoughts this morning.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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