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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #30 on: October 15, 2020, 10:32:28 AM »

Good morning fellas, high praise for the MF Fonseca from Halfwheel. I've had several cuban Fonsecas and I'm definitely intrigued

https://halfwheel.com/fonseca-belicosos/382494/
Forget Halfwheel, I've tried them and I like them.  So there!
Interesting, I thought you had no interest in the line
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2020, 10:33:19 AM »

Morning Rick, Oy, Tony, Dave Mr. Bean and Fishy.
Morning HalfwheelDave
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2020, 10:38:10 AM »

Good morning fellas, high praise for the MF Fonseca from Halfwheel. I've had several cuban Fonsecas and I'm definitely intrigued

https://halfwheel.com/fonseca-belicosos/382494/
Forget Halfwheel, I've tried them and I like them.  So there!
I've tried both the Cedros and the Cosacos (corona).  Initial impression is that the larger cigar does a better job at presenting the flavors.  Not sure why they like keeping the name, it tastes absolutely nothing like the Quesada cigar (thank god), is made from Nicaraguan tobacco.  I can't compare it to the Cuban predecessor, but its a fine stand alone.
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #33 on: October 15, 2020, 10:39:16 AM »

Good morning fellas, high praise for the MF Fonseca from Halfwheel. I've had several cuban Fonsecas and I'm definitely intrigued

https://halfwheel.com/fonseca-belicosos/382494/
Forget Halfwheel, I've tried them and I like them.  So there!
Interesting, I thought you had no interest in the line
I didn't from the Quesada side of it, but was intrigued by what the Garcia's would do with it.  Glad I checked it out.
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #34 on: October 15, 2020, 10:41:40 AM »

Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 289th day of 2020.
There are 77 days left in the year.


Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 15, 1976, in the first debate of its kind between vice-presidential nominees, Democrat Walter F. Mondale and Republican Bob Dole faced off in Houston.

On this date:
In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte, the deposed Emperor of the French, arrived on the British-ruled South Atlantic island of St. Helena, where he spent the last 5 1/2 years of his life in exile.
In 1917, Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari (Margaretha ZelleGeertruida MacLeod), 41, convicted by a French military court of spying for the Germans, was executed by a firing squad outside Paris. (Maintaining her innocence to the end, Mata Hari refused a blindfold and blew a kiss to her executioners.)
In 1940, Charles Chaplin’s first all-talking comedy, “The Great Dictator,” a lampoon of Adolf Hitler, opened in New York.

In 1945, the former premier of Vichy France, Pierre Laval, was executed for treason.
In 1946, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering (GEH’-reeng) fatally poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.
In 1954, Hurricane Hazel made landfall on the Carolina coast as a Category 4 storm; Hazel was blamed for some 1,000 deaths in the Caribbean, 95 in the U.S. and 81 in Canada.

In 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the U.S. Department of Transportation. The revolutionary Black Panther Party was founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California.
In 1969, peace demonstrators staged activities across the country as part of a “moratorium” against the Vietnam War.
In 1991, despite sexual harassment allegations by Anita Hill, the Senate narrowly confirmed the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the U.S. Supreme Court, 52-48.

In 2001, Bethlehem Steel Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
In 2003, eleven people were killed when a Staten Island ferry slammed into a maintenance pier. (The ferry’s pilot, who’d blacked out at the controls, later pleaded guilty to eleven counts of manslaughter.)
In 2017, actress and activist Alyssa Milano tweeted that women who had been sexually harassed or assaulted should write “Me too” as a status; within hours, tens of thousands had taken up the (hash)MeToo hashtag (using a phrase that had been introduced 10 years earlier by social activist Tarana Burke.)
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« Reply #35 on: October 15, 2020, 10:42:51 AM »

Ten years ago: The Obama administration reported that the federal deficit had hit a near-record $1.3 trillion for the just-completed budget year. Workers hugged, cheered and set off fireworks as a huge drill broke through a last stretch of rock deep in the Swiss Alps for construction of the 35.4-mile Gotthard Base Tunnel; the railway tunnel would go into operation in 2016.


Five years ago: President Barack Obama abandoned his pledge to end America’s longest war, announcing plans to keep at least 5,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan at the end of his term in 2017 and hand the conflict off to his successor. Ken Taylor, Canada’s ambassador to Iran who’d sheltered Americans at his residence during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, died in New York at age 81.


One year ago: Elizabeth Warren, carrying a new status as a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, came under attack from rivals at a debate in Ohio; they accused her of ducking questions about the cost of Medicare for All and her signature wealth tax plan. The Washington Nationals scored seven runs in the first inning on the way to a 7-4 win and a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League Championship Series; the wild-card Nationals advanced to the World Series, where they would defeat the Houston Astros. Actor Felicity Huffman reported to a federal prison in California to start a two-week sentence for paying a college admissions consultant to have a proctor correct her daughter’s SAT answers. (She was released two days before the end of the sentence.) Newly-elected inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame included, posthumously, Whitney Houston and The Notorious B.I.G.; they were joined by Depeche Mode, the Doobie Brothers, Nine Inch Hails and T-Rex.
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #36 on: October 15, 2020, 10:45:56 AM »

Today’s Birthdays:

Singer Barry McGuire is 85.
Actor Linda Lavin is 83.
Rock musician Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) is 78.
Baseball Hall of Famer Jim Palmer is 75.
Singer-musician Richard Carpenter is 74.
Actor Victor Banerjee is 74.
Former tennis player Roscoe Tanner is 69.
Singer Tito Jackson is 67.
Actor-comedian Larry Miller is 67.
Actor Jere Burns is 66.
Movie director Mira Nair is 63.
Britain’s Duchess of York, Sarah Ferguson, is 61.
Chef Emeril Lagasse (EM’-ur-ul leh-GAH’-see) is 61.
Actor Tanya Roberts is 61.
Rock musician Mark Reznicek (REHZ’-nih-chehk) is 58.
Singer Eric Benet (beh-NAY’) is 54.
Actor Vanessa Marcil is 52.
Singer-actor-TV host Paige Davis is 51.
Country singer Kimberly Schlapman (Little Big Town) is 51.
Actor Dominic West is 51.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Ginuwine (JIHN’-yoo-wyn) is 50.
Actor Devon Gummersall is 42.
Actor Chris Olivero is 41.
Christian singer-actor Jaci (JAK’-ee) Velasquez is 41.
Actor Brandon Jay McLaren is 40.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Keyshia Cole is 39.
Actor Vincent Martella is 28.
Actor Bailee Madison is 21.
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #37 on: October 15, 2020, 10:49:58 AM »

Happy Birthday Tanya and Tony's man crush Emeril...
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #38 on: October 15, 2020, 10:50:41 AM »

Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 289th day of 2020.
In 2001, Bethlehem Steel Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
At least their site has made a fine comeback as a casino.
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #39 on: October 15, 2020, 10:52:10 AM »

Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 289th day of 2020.
In 2001, Bethlehem Steel Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
At least their site has made a fine comeback as a casino.
Another fun fact, the main building that was their headquarters was clearly visible (because it absolutely dominated the skyline) from the golf course we played on at CF last year, and a couple weeks after we were there, it was imploded.
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« Reply #40 on: October 15, 2020, 10:53:05 AM »

Happy Birthday Tanya and Tony's man crush Emeril...
I'm guessing he would be happy to say BAM! with both.
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #41 on: October 15, 2020, 10:53:47 AM »

Today is Thursday, Oct. 15, the 289th day of 2020.
In 2001, Bethlehem Steel Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
At least their site has made a fine comeback as a casino.
Not the one in WNY. Still a pile of wasted land.
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #42 on: October 15, 2020, 10:55:18 AM »

Good morning Dave and Mark. Did one of you bring Tony a coffee?
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #43 on: October 15, 2020, 10:57:20 AM »

CI having a "virtual CigarFest".  Only problem is that clicking on the links doesn't take you anywhere...
Was interested in looking at the three Southern Draw offerings....

https://www.cigarsinternational.com/shop/virtual-cigarfest-2020/2033979/?slide=3
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Re: 10/15/2020
« Reply #44 on: October 15, 2020, 10:58:36 AM »

Happy Birthday Tanya and Tony's man crush Emeril...
I'm guessing he would be happy to say BAM! with both.
I think that would be a good guess.
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