ot: Snuff

I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a
60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during
the 60s & 70s.

One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside
the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an
antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and
snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found
that I quite liked it.

This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
says "Very Addictive"

Just what I need.

Cane wrote:
> Being the curious type I asked to try it and found
> that I quite liked it.

From the thread title I thought that you were going into movie production,
and were looking for actors.

--
serf

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:00:29 -0000, Cane <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> wrote:

>This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
>briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
>menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
>says "Very Addictive"
>
>Just what I need.

Snuff is basically fine tobacco so if you have an addictive
personality then you're going to get hooked. European snuff is dry
and normally scented whereas Merkin snuff is moist and you're supposed
to shove it up your gums.
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On 11 Jul, 19:18, BGN <nickmoo...@spamcop.net> wrote:

> Snuff is basically fine tobacco so if you have an addictive
> personality then you're going to get hooked. European snuff is dry
> and normally scented whereas Merkin snuff is moist and you're supposed
> to shove it up your gums.

nickapeadia

Cane wrote:

> This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
> briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
> menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
> says "Very Addictive"
>
> Just what I need.

We used to use it when i worked down t'pit. Back then i was a smoker, so a
hit of snuff helped. especially on 12 hour shifts.

--
Paul - xxx

On 11 Jul, 21:06, "Paul - xxx" <notcheckede...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
> > briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
> > menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
> > says "Very Addictive"
>
> > Just what I need.
>
> We used to use it when i worked down t'pit. Back then i was a smoker, so a
> hit of snuff helped. especially on 12 hour shifts.

What do you do now?

In article <1184176829.296787.173230@22g2000hsm.googlegroups. com>,
CaneUKRM@gmail.com says...

> I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a
> 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during
> the 60s & 70s.
>
> One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside
> the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an
> antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and
> snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found
> that I quite liked it.
>
> This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
> briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
> menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
> says "Very Addictive"
>
> Just what I need.

*Chuckles*
--
CBR1000 GS450 FZ1-N
BOMB#14 ibW#40 LotR#0 BOTAFOT#157 BotM#3

Cane wrote:
> I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a
> 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during
> the 60s & 70s.
>
> One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside
> the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an
> antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and
> snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found
> that I quite liked it.

He should stand around with the pipe clenched in his teeth, just not lit.

I used to do snuff in the early '80s. Many people thought it was some dodgy
illicit substance.

--
platypus

"enthusiasm and incompetence"

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Cane <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> saying
something like:

>This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
>briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
>menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
>says "Very Addictive"
>
>Just what I need.

For nose cancer? Yep.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the
river cleaned out in a day.

platypus wrote:
>
> I used to do snuff in the early '80s. Many people thought it was some
> dodgy illicit substance.

IIRC, my Dad used to use snuff to make his home-grown tobacco almost
smokable. Foul stuff, it was.

--
Eddie eddie@deguello.org

http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm

Cane wrote:
> On 11 Jul, 21:06, "Paul - xxx" <notcheckede...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
>>> briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
>>> menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
>>> says "Very Addictive"
>>
>>> Just what I need.
>>
>> We used to use it when i worked down t'pit. Back then i was a
>> smoker, so a hit of snuff helped. especially on 12 hour shifts.

>
> What do you do now?

School Caretaker, and I haven't smoked since I was 21, which was 26 years
ago.

--
Paul - xxx

"Cane" <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184176829.296787.173230@22g2000hsm.googlegro ups.com...
> I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a
> 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during
> the 60s & 70s.
>
> One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside
> the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an
> antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and
> snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found
> that I quite liked it.
>
> This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
> briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
> menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
> says "Very Addictive"
>
> Just what I need.

Does it not make you sneeze?

"Cane" <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1184176829.296787.173230@22g2000hsm.googlegro ups.com...
> I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a
> 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during
> the 60s & 70s.
>
> One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside
> the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an
> antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and
> snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found
> that I quite liked it.
>
> This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut
> briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's
> menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it
> says "Very Addictive"

My m-i-l gave me my f-i-l's snuff-box as a keepsake, having helped him to
die with as much dignity as was possible. With the imminence of the
smoking-ban, I hauled it out into the sunlight again. Even after all these
years, the tobacco was still delicious. I'd question the "Very Addictive"
as just more nanny-statism.

"BGN" <nickmooney@spamcop.net> wrote in
news:ej7a935d00qd419tj12t7b3tsnsd6tajtd@4ax.com...
>
> Snuff is basically fine tobacco so if you have an addictive
> personality then you're going to get hooked. European snuff is dry
> and normally scented whereas Merkin snuff is moist and you're supposed
> to shove it up your gums.

99.99% of Scandinavian snuff is the moist variety as well. I am
solidly addicted to nicotine and use snuff [1] because it's cheaper,
to dodge all the smoking bans and it just might be a tad less lethal.

You get much higher nicotine levels than by smoking and over here
it's generally recognised that it's more addictive.

[1] Not "real" snuff but the modern tea-bag sort, not quite as messy.

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TDM850 / WR450F FL#44 OTC#489 UKRMSBC#08
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"OH-" <olehat.holmblad@comhem.sehat> wrote in message
<SEwli.3994$ZA.1887@newsb.telia.net>:

>99.99% of Scandinavian snuff is the moist variety as well. I am
>solidly addicted to nicotine and use snuff [1] because it's cheaper,
>to dodge all the smoking bans and it just might be a tad less lethal.

Isn't that the stuff that's cut with glass so that when you place it
next to your gum the abraded gum gets the nicotine into your bloodstream
faster?
--
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I know I aint doing much,
doing nothing means a lot to me.

<deadmail@burnt.org.uk> wrote in
news:fi8d9355a420j1ca7120m4e5sbh7uubvhc@4ax.com...
> "OH-" <olehat.holmblad@comhem.sehat> wrote in message
> <SEwli.3994$ZA.1887@newsb.telia.net>:
>
>>99.99% of Scandinavian snuff is the moist variety as well. I am
>>solidly addicted to nicotine and use snuff [1] because it's cheaper,
>>to dodge all the smoking bans and it just might be a tad less lethal.
>
> Isn't that the stuff that's cut with glass so that when you place it
> next to your gum the abraded gum gets the nicotine into your bloodstream
> faster?

That's an urban myth. There is regular salt and maybe some other
salts (in some flavours) that can form clear crystals if the snuff is
not too wet. That is probably how the rumour started.

--
Ole Holmblad - Göteborgs Prima MCK / MK Pionjär
TDM850 / WR450F FL#44 OTC#489 UKRMSBC#08
SGFPTH#00 Remove hat to answer by mail

	#1
Cane	ot: Snuff I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during the 60s & 70s. One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found that I quite liked it. This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it says "Very Addictive" Just what I need.

	#2
serf	Re: Snuff Cane wrote: > Being the curious type I asked to try it and found > that I quite liked it. From the thread title I thought that you were going into movie production, and were looking for actors. -- serf

	#3
BGN	Re: ot: Snuff On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:00:29 -0000, Cane <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> wrote: >This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut >briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's >menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it >says "Very Addictive" > >Just what I need. Snuff is basically fine tobacco so if you have an addictive personality then you're going to get hooked. European snuff is dry and normally scented whereas Merkin snuff is moist and you're supposed to shove it up your gums. -- -- Nick ICQ: 9235201 EMAIL & MSN: nickmooney@spamcop.net -- LOTR#4 SKOGA#8 DS#7 BOTAFOT#159 BOTM#2 FBOTY#06 PM#11 -- GSF600n www.bgn.me.uk - Drive until you lose the road

	#4
Cane	Re: ot: Snuff On 11 Jul, 19:18, BGN <nickmoo...@spamcop.net> wrote: > Snuff is basically fine tobacco so if you have an addictive > personality then you're going to get hooked. European snuff is dry > and normally scented whereas Merkin snuff is moist and you're supposed > to shove it up your gums. nickapeadia

	#5
Paul - xxx	Re: Snuff Cane wrote: > This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut > briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's > menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it > says "Very Addictive" > > Just what I need. We used to use it when i worked down t'pit. Back then i was a smoker, so a hit of snuff helped. especially on 12 hour shifts. -- Paul - xxx

	#6
Cane	Re: Snuff On 11 Jul, 21:06, "Paul - xxx" <notcheckede...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut > > briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's > > menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it > > says "Very Addictive" > > > Just what I need. > > We used to use it when i worked down t'pit. Back then i was a smoker, so a > hit of snuff helped. especially on 12 hour shifts. What do you do now?

	#7
Whinging Courier	Re: ot: Snuff In article <1184176829.296787.173230@22g2000hsm.googlegroups. com>, CaneUKRM@gmail.com says... > I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a > 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during > the 60s & 70s. > > One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside > the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an > antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and > snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found > that I quite liked it. > > This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut > briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's > menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it > says "Very Addictive" > > Just what I need. Chuckles -- CBR1000 GS450 FZ1-N BOMB#14 ibW#40 LotR#0 BOTAFOT#157 BotM#3

	#8
platypus	Re: Snuff Cane wrote: > I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a > 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during > the 60s & 70s. > > One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside > the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an > antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and > snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found > that I quite liked it. He should stand around with the pipe clenched in his teeth, just not lit. I used to do snuff in the early '80s. Many people thought it was some dodgy illicit substance. -- platypus "enthusiasm and incompetence"

	#9
Grimly Curmudgeon	Re: ot: Snuff We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Cane <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> saying something like: >This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut >briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's >menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it >says "Very Addictive" > >Just what I need. For nose cancer? Yep. -- Dave GS850x2 XS650 SE6a Teach a man to fish and he and his pikey mates will have the river cleaned out in a day.

	#10
Eddie	Re: Snuff platypus wrote: > > I used to do snuff in the early '80s. Many people thought it was some > dodgy illicit substance. IIRC, my Dad used to use snuff to make his home-grown tobacco almost smokable. Foul stuff, it was. -- Eddie eddie@deguello.org http://www.last.fm/group/ukrm

	#11
Paul - xxx	Re: Snuff Cane wrote: > On 11 Jul, 21:06, "Paul - xxx" <notcheckede...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>> This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut >>> briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's >>> menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it >>> says "Very Addictive" >> >>> Just what I need. >> >> We used to use it when i worked down t'pit. Back then i was a >> smoker, so a hit of snuff helped. especially on 12 hour shifts. > > What do you do now? School Caretaker, and I haven't smoked since I was 21, which was 26 years ago. -- Paul - xxx

	#12
gazzafield	Re: Snuff "Cane" <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184176829.296787.173230@22g2000hsm.googlegro ups.com... > I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a > 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during > the 60s & 70s. > > One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside > the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an > antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and > snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found > that I quite liked it. > > This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut > briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's > menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it > says "Very Addictive" > > Just what I need. Does it not make you sneeze?

	#13
Charlie	Re: Snuff "Cane" <CaneUKRM@gmail.com> wrote in message news:1184176829.296787.173230@22g2000hsm.googlegro ups.com... > I've got this eccentric mate I occasionally have a beer with. He's a > 60 year old photographer who was big in advertising in London during > the 60s & 70s. > > One of his accessories is a pipe which he obviously can't use inside > the pub anymore. To combat this he took from his waistcoat pocket an > antique and rather ornate wooden box about the size of a matchbox and > snorted some snuff. Being the curious type I asked to try it and found > that I quite liked it. > > This evening I met him after work and he produced from his walnut > briefcase a red plastic box of Red Bull Strong Snuff as a gift. It's > menthol and damn near blows my head off. On the back of the box it > says "Very Addictive" My m-i-l gave me my f-i-l's snuff-box as a keepsake, having helped him to die with as much dignity as was possible. With the imminence of the smoking-ban, I hauled it out into the sunlight again. Even after all these years, the tobacco was still delicious. I'd question the "Very Addictive" as just more nanny-statism.

	#14
OH-	Re: ot: Snuff "BGN" <nickmooney@spamcop.net> wrote in news:ej7a935d00qd419tj12t7b3tsnsd6tajtd@4ax.com... > > Snuff is basically fine tobacco so if you have an addictive > personality then you're going to get hooked. European snuff is dry > and normally scented whereas Merkin snuff is moist and you're supposed > to shove it up your gums. 99.99% of Scandinavian snuff is the moist variety as well. I am solidly addicted to nicotine and use snuff [1] because it's cheaper, to dodge all the smoking bans and it just might be a tad less lethal. You get much higher nicotine levels than by smoking and over here it's generally recognised that it's more addictive. [1] Not "real" snuff but the modern tea-bag sort, not quite as messy. -- Ole Holmblad - Göteborgs Prima MCK / MK Pionjär TDM850 / WR450F FL#44 OTC#489 UKRMSBC#08 SGFPTH#00 Remove hat to answer by mail

	#15
deadmail@burnt.org.uk	Re: ot: Snuff "OH-" <olehat.holmblad@comhem.sehat> wrote in message <SEwli.3994$ZA.1887@newsb.telia.net>: >99.99% of Scandinavian snuff is the moist variety as well. I am >solidly addicted to nicotine and use snuff [1] because it's cheaper, >to dodge all the smoking bans and it just might be a tad less lethal. Isn't that the stuff that's cut with glass so that when you place it next to your gum the abraded gum gets the nicotine into your bloodstream faster? -- K75RT, K1100LT, ZXR750H1, 5TA. I know I aint doing much, doing nothing means a lot to me.

	#16
OH-	Re: ot: Snuff <deadmail@burnt.org.uk> wrote in news:fi8d9355a420j1ca7120m4e5sbh7uubvhc@4ax.com... > "OH-" <olehat.holmblad@comhem.sehat> wrote in message > <SEwli.3994$ZA.1887@newsb.telia.net>: > >>99.99% of Scandinavian snuff is the moist variety as well. I am >>solidly addicted to nicotine and use snuff [1] because it's cheaper, >>to dodge all the smoking bans and it just might be a tad less lethal. > > Isn't that the stuff that's cut with glass so that when you place it > next to your gum the abraded gum gets the nicotine into your bloodstream > faster? That's an urban myth. There is regular salt and maybe some other salts (in some flavours) that can form clear crystals if the snuff is not too wet. That is probably how the rumour started. -- Ole Holmblad - Göteborgs Prima MCK / MK Pionjär TDM850 / WR450F FL#44 OTC#489 UKRMSBC#08 SGFPTH#00 Remove hat to answer by mail