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How can something "new" be "improved" if it's "new"?

Intro:
New site, so I decided to change my name. A fresh start, clean slate, whatever (not a scary avatar).
Some of you may know me as IHT. I'm here for the pipe discussions. I still smoke cigars every so often, but 95% of the time, it's pipes. 50% of the time, it's 100% Va/Pers. 50% of the 95%, it's 100% VAs. 2% of the 100%, I get tongue bite.

Started smokin pipes in the late 90s. Switched to cigars around '02, while still smokin pipes 5% of the time. In '05, I went back to 100% pipes 95% of the time, while getting tongue bit 2% of the time.

Hello.

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Im Ho Tep Welcome!

I was thinking to myself the other day that I hadn't noticed if you had joined over here

glad you're here

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Welcome IHT, glad to have more experienced pipe smokers aboard.

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Welcome............again.

Finally another Old Fart that can help us out!!

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Welcome Greg! I'm surprised Spongy didn't join. Either way, it'll be good to have ya around. :tu

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I got sick of you bastages bombarding me with PMs to join.
Spongy is waiting for the next BBQ herf so he can spend 2 weeks within arms reach of a toilet and baby wipes, Chad.

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Al-righty you skeeter want-a-be.;)

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IHT is back to International Herald Tribune, then? Fine.

Welcome, Old Curly Fart

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Welcome here Greg, you didn't seem to happy with ****.com. This site is real nice.

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a couple reasons, Nick. I kept being invited by a handful of ppl over here in the pipe forum. old-CS has gone down the pooper now, worse than i thought it would. i still post on a # of other forums, but the reason i post on pipe forums now is to help newer smokers out, share whatever knowledge i have, and still learn a thing or two along the way. some of the other places i post at, there's hardly anyone new that needs to learn anything. we all just kinda sit there, staring at each other through the smoke.

Dan, name change cuz i didn't want to scare anyone. y'know, those animated gif's can really haunt some ppls dreams.

thx for having me and the invites, guys. i hope to contribute something worth a darn.

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Man! That's one scary amoeba thingy! It's like it has one off centered eye starring at me! I almost pissed my pants. Creepy!


I hope it doesn't light up.:D





Hi Greg! :)

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hey darien. hope all is well up there.
we were just talkin about a herf in KC soon.

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As I was making the previous post, I was thinking how good it would be to see everyone again. I wish I had more leeway to make the out of town (out of KC area) herfs. I look forward to it.

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Welcome to CA Greg. I STILL can't believe that I never met Spongy at the BBQ HERF.

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i can't either, you slept in his house and he drove you to the herf.

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I heard he was avoiding you. :r

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The curlycut avatar turned my guts to Jello when I first saw it. Totally NSFNS (not safe for non-smokers). I hope he doesn't start whipping out those extra-scary fish emoticons next.

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Gee, where did he learn that, Ultranonanswerer? :sad

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i'm thinkin the next one will be down the street from me again, in Bonner Springs - SidePockets, where you had that pipeful of Penzance.

http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/d...8/IMG_0976.jpg

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I live in one of the most metropolitan areas in the US and i have never heard of a herf around here.

what does herf stand for anyway, i never could figure it out.

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herf doesn't stand for anything, except getting together with friends and having a smoke. It is a word that was created for the event as far as I know. :pi

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Welcome to your new home (blink, blink). Looking forward to your posts! :pi

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Welcome Curly Cut! :pi

Stumbled upon this on the inter-webs, starts with Poker quoting Papa Herf:


"For all us newbies who don't spring from the head of MotheMan with a full complement of cigar knowledge and wisdom, I found the answer to a question I posed during a recent chat. DISCLAIMER - this is NOT my work, someone else put it together, I take no credit whatsoever for the truths or untruths therein. That said, here is what I found:

What Is A Herf?

Herf? What the heck IS a herf? You're new to this cigar business; you're surfing from site to site, and this word keeps cropping up- 'herf'. Lot's of people write 'herf', but nobody tells to what on earth 'herf' means. Well, we will!

It's a term coined in the alt.smokers.cigars newsgroup, way back in 1996. 'Herf' caught on, and has been part of the cigar lexicon ever since. Below is the definitive posting at ACS on the origin of 'herf'...

HERF - EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:

The un-official word of ASC is Herf. Herf is a unique part of speech. It can be correctly used as a noun, a verb, an adjective, an adverb, an infinitive, a prefix, a suffix and an explicative.

The arcane word "herf" first entered the ASC lexicon on November 21, 1996, and was quickly elevated to frenetic and common use by ASCers. The Prince of Skeeves exposed ASC to the word herf in a casual posting to the group... however it was ASCers, as a budding collective, who took the word and made it divine.

Herf is now virulently spreading to worldwide common use as hip cigar parlance.

HERF - CHRONOLOGY:

As for the origin of Herf, here's the History of Herf (it's a matter of record on DejaNews)...
The word "herf" first appeared on ASC...
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It was November 21, 1996... the elections were over, and "herf" unceremoniously beams into our lexicon... And, you were there (here's the exact post)...
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Subject: worst cigars IMHO
From: aloysius@gte.net (Prince of Skeeves)
1996/11/21
Message-ID: <571i9b$ht4@news3.gte.net>
Newsgroups: alt.smokers.cigars

I bought a Canaria d'Oro(sic?)Robusto out of curiousity
and it was really a horrible, stale,grassy smoke with a
peed-on taste. I gave it about 2 inches before I put it
out. Also, anything Macanudo...I tried several when I
first began smoking cigars and found them all to be very
bland and almost impossible to herf, they were so tightly
wrapped. I think the list of `Mediocre Smokes' for most
folks would be huge.

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And, the voices of ASCers cry out immediately... saying, "what is this _herf_ thing?" In answer... on November 23, Prince of Skeeves elucidates,

Message-ID: <5770op$cqu@news1.gte.net>:
To `herf' is to draw on a cigar.

The voices of ASC follow in chorus: "this herf thing... it is good" And, in a grand gesture, full grace is shared...

Subject: an early definition of the word...
From: aloysius@gte.net (Prince of Skeeves)
1997/07/11
Message-ID: <5q5f19$dfa$1@news12.gte.net>
Newsgroups: alt.smokers.cigars

EVERYONE MUST HERF

The first time I heard the word `herf' and recognized
it's potential for the enrichment of my vocabulary was
in junior college in Clyde, Texas in 1982 from a blueblood
derelict friend of my named Stu. In the context of the
time it was used to describe the ungainly and humorous
facial contortion required to deeply draw on a large,
hand-rolled cigarette of unknown filling while driving
a motor vehicle and keeping an eye peeled for the
Callahan County sheriff. Later I found the term `herf'
described nicely the method for getting a good mouthful
of tasty smoke from my favorite cigars.(Padron and HDM
Rothschilds)

S. delaVega
Prince of Skeeves

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So, that's the herf story... on 11/21/96 "Prince of Skeeves" (whoever he/she/it is/was) introduced our newsgroup to its very own beloved word... And, as a bonus...

HERF LEVITY:

Herf... a word which is now spreading to virtually all corners of the cigar world... thanks to the likes of the many and varied distinguished herfing enthusiasts (herfnicks)... such as:

the good Dr. Miguelit (used on his many national radio interviews),
Mr. Lew Rothman (used proudly and prominently on JR's Winter catalog issue's front cover),
ASC elder Mr. Bob Curtis (used liberally all over the ICG website),
the Hon. Steven Saka (used strategically at least four times in the course of the 1997 New Hampshire state senatorial debate and once as an invective following the debate's broadcast, which, btw, was televised on CSPAN-3 to over a half-billion viewers worldwide, including the space shuttle mission crew),
Connie Whittager, perky weatherwoman on Montgomery, Alabama's WKKG-TV (used to describe the fog which paralyzed suburban roadways for two straight days in April 1997... in an interview on the Weather Channel, she explained, "...motorists were advised to avoid the western beltway and all lakeside arteries due to a stationary fog bank thicker than a hundred hounddogs herfin' Hondurans in a hayloft", and
by Jorge Jesus Delgado, Jr., now departed, (who ardently pleaded to "herf a cigar" before his execution in the Texas death-house in October 1997)... ...just to mention a few of the notables!
PS: Remember... November 21 is World Herfing Day!!! Sorry you asked, huh?<g> Regards, ...JC

So now you know the meaning of 'herf'!

HOPE THIS HELPS - LONG LIVE GEORGE BURNS

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Aaron11-29-2005, 02:43 PM
I dabble in etymology (study of the origin of words) and have been Googling around for an authoritative answer to the origin of herf and cigar.

herf is a mutation of the word huff.

huff at Dictionary.com
c.1450, apparently imitative of exhaling. Extended sense of "bluster with indignation" is attested from 1599. Huffy "ready to take offense" is from 1680. (http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?...earchmode=none)

We tell our kids stories about the three pigs and the wolf who huffed and puffed.

A Pittsburghese (http://www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/...ittsburgh.html) website has the following:
Ignernt-Here's a word guaranteed to confuse any new arrival to Pittsburgh. To everyone else the word ignorant(whence ignernt derives) means uninformed or lacking in knowledge. But in Pittsburgh, ignernt means rude.
Recall how Archie Bunker used to pronounce words, sometimes dropping and sometimes inserting "r's" where they never were.

I think there's a strong chance that huff became herf. It sounded funnier to say herf, and so it stuck."

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Oh ok I thought it was an abbreviation, but I like this much better.

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thx ppls, for the welcome.

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Hey Greg ;)