Abbreviations Used In The Pipe Community

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Commonly Used Abbreviations found in the Pipe Smoking Community

1792= S Gawith's 1792 Flake (formerly Cob flake)
5100= McClelland's 5100, a red VA blend, sometimes preceded by the # sign
AE= Art's Endevour (Art_A's own private blend)
AFAIK= As Far As I Know
ASP= Alt-Smokers-Pipes, another pipesmokers forums
BBF= S Gawith's Best Brown Flake
BC= Butz-Choquin pipe manafacturer
BCF= G&H Bob's Choc Flake
BOB= Brother of the Briar
BFP= Baileys Front Porch, a C&D blend
B&M= Brick and Mortar, i.e. an actual tobacco store, rather than an online shop.
BTW= By The Way.
CAO= Brand of Meershaum Pipes
C&D= Cornell & Diehl tobacco manafacturers
CH= Carter Hall, a drugstore blend by Middleton
DBE= Dark Bird's Eye
DGT= Delayed Gratification Technique for more info see http://briarfiles.blogspot.dk/2008/0...technique.html
DH= or sometimes D/H=Dunhill, English pipe manafacturer
DLF= Dunhill Light Flake
DLNR= Dunhill Deluxe Navy Rolls
EMP= Dunhill Early Morning Pipe
ERR= Edgeworth Ready Rubbed- sometimes ERRd
FM= McClellands Frog Morton
FMOTB= McClelland's Frog Morton On The Bayou.
FMOTT= McClelland's Frog Morton On The Town.
FVF= S Gawith Full Virginia Flake
GFO= Gray Fox Online, another pipesmokers forum.
G&H= Gawith & Hoggarth Co.
GLP= G.L. Pease Tobbacco
HB =Haunted Bookshop, Burley based blend from C&D
HCA= Hans Christian Anderson, a line of pipes made by Stanwell, which include a long churchwarden stem and a shorter stem
HOTW= Rattray's Hal o' the Wind
HOW= House of Windsor
IIRC= If I remember correctly
IMO= In My Opinion. Variations: IMHO (In My Humble Opinion)
KB&B= Kaufman Brothers and Bondy, early makers of Kaywoodie and Yello-Bole pipes
KW= Kaywoodie, American pipe manafacturer
LBF or PSLBF= Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulls Eye Flake
LHS= Pipes made by Ludwig and Hugo Stern. Marketed under the named LHS, Sterncrest or Purex They were manufactured in NYC from 1920's to early 1960's. They were pioneers in "stinger" technology.
LNF or PSLNF= Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake
LOL= Laugh out loud/Laughing out loud
LTF or PSLTF= Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake
McB= Macbaren's Tobacco Co.
McC= McClellands Tobacco Co
MM= Missouri Meerschaum, the first and foremost corncob pipe manafacturer
MM965= Dunhill My Mixture 965 (sometimes just referred to as 965)
NAC= North American carvers (pipemakers)
N/C= Dunhill Nightcap
OG= Rattray's Old Gowrie
OGS= Orliks Golden Sliced
OJK= Old Joe Krantz, burley based blend by C&D
OT= Off-topic.
OTC= Over the Counter ie.Drugstore baccies
PA= Prince Albert tobacco, a drugstore blend by Middleton
PL= Park Lanes Tobacconist
PM= Pipes Magazine
PAD= Pipe Aquisition Disorder. An incurable affliction affecting many members
PSU= Pipe Smoker Unleashed
PS= Peter Stokkebye
P&W= Pipeworks & Wilke, a tobacco blender in Vermont run by Carole Burns
SF= Smokers Forums
SG= Samuel Gawith Co. English tobacco blenders
S/L or SL= Squadron Leader, a Samuel Gawith blend
SMS= Brand of Meershaum Pipes
SMM= Dunhill Standard Mixture Medium
SWR= Sir Walter Raleigh, drugstore tobacco
TAD= Tobacco Aquisition Disorder see PAD above.
YOW= Ye Olde Wood- The stamp used on Barling's Make pipes from the 1930s onward
YMMV= Your mileage may vary