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[CigarBanter]

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!  Hopefully you'll get to start the weekend early.  Otherwise, perhaps some cigar deals will help ya get through to tomorrow.  Share what you know in this forum and perhaps learn something about cigars along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!

[Johnny]

Nice rework on the intro, Tony!

[A Friend of Charlie]

Nice rework on the intro, Tony!

LOL!  Good to see you, Johnny.

[Johnny]

Nice rework on the intro, Tony!

LOL!  Good to see you, Johnny.

Howdy Tony, about to go to bed here, see y'all tomorrow.

[LSUFAN]

Good morning guys.

[LSUFAN]

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[LSUFAN]

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[LSUFAN]

On this day in history ..
1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1599 - Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
1625 - Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne
1668 - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1709 - Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1713 - Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
1721 - France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1758 - Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1790 - The shoelace invented
1794 - US Navy forms
1802 - Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1808 - Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Sch”pfung" premieres in Vienna
1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: Gen Andrew Jackson beats Creek-indians
1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
1841 - 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1848 - John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849 - Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855 - Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 - M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1861 - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1863 - President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1866 - Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 - Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
1871 - 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1879 - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1884 - 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY

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1912 - 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1920 - Film stars Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks wed
1920 - Hermann Mller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1924 - Canada recognizes USSR
1924 - New French govt of Poincar‚ begins
1928 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
1928 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1928 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1929 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1929 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1930 - 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1931 - Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1931 - John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1932 - De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations
1933 - Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1936 - WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
1937 - Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
1939 - 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Champion: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
1940 - Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1941 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941 - Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 - Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
1942 - -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942 - Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1« hour forward
1942 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1943 - Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
1943 - Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
1944 - 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944 - 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944 - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 - Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno

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1945 - 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Okla State beats NYU 49-44
1945 - British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 - DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
1945 - Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
1945 - Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1950 - Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
1950 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 - WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
1951 - Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
1952 - Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 - Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1953 - 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1955 - 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
1955 - Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955 - WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - French commandos land in Algeria
1956 - US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1957 - 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win
1958 - CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1958 - Havana Hilton opens
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
1960 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open

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1961 - Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1962 - Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London
1962 - Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1962 - Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
1964 - 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1964 - Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
1964 - Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1964 - UN troops arrive on Cyprus
1966 - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1966 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
1968 - Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF
1968 - Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia
1969 - Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969 - Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1970 - Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1972 - Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky
1972 - Venera 8 launched to Venus
1973 - Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
1973 - Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1973 - 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1976 - Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
1976 - Washington DC underground Metro opens
1977 - 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1977 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1978 - 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
1978 - Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs
1978 - Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
1979 - Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
1980 - "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
1980 - "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 - Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
1980 - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years

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1981 - John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 perfs
1982 - Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
1982 - Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
1983 - 13th Easter Seal Telethon
1983 - Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in NYC
1984 - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres
1985 - Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1986 - Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
1987 - President Habr‚'s troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
1988 - Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1988 - Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
1988 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1988 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1988 - Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
1988 - Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
1989 - 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
1989 - Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1990 - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
1990 - NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
1991 - NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
1991 - New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1991 - Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1992 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
1994 - 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews
1994 - Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
1994 - Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
1994 - Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
1994 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN)
1994 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1994 - Radio personality Rush Limbaugh weds wife #3, Marta Fitzgerald
1995 - 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
1996 - "State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
1997 - 39 cult memebers in Calif commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1997 - Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
1998 - Soul Train Award
2134 - 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

[LSUFAN]

Driver's Permit
-------------------------

A young boy had just gotten his driver's permit and
enquired of his father, if they could discuss his use
of the car. His father said, "I'll make a deal with you.
You bring your grades up from a C to a B average,
study your Bible a little, get your hair cut and we'll
talk about the car."

Well, the boy thought about that for a moment, and
settle for the offer, and they agreed on it. After about
six weeks they went in to the study, where his father
said, "Son, I've been real proud. You've brought your
grades up, and I've observed that you have been
studying your Bible, and participating a lot more in
the Bible study groups. But, I'm real disappointed,
since you haven't gotten your hair cut."


The young man paused a moment, and then said,
"You know, Dad, I've been thinking about that, and I've
noticed in my studies of the Bible that Samson had
long hair, John the Baptist had long hair, Moses had
long hair and there's even a strong argument that
Jesus had long hair also."

To this his father replied, "Did you also notice they
all walked everywhere they went?"

[LSUFAN]

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
1554 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1665 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1710 - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
1746 - Augustin Ullinger, composer
1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1757 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
1760 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
1760 - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
1772 - Giovanni Liverati, composer
1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1785 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
1797 - Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Mo‹se, Chatterton)
1809 - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
1810 - A Glabbrenner, writer
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816 - George Elvey, composer
1818 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1823 - Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1845 - Wilhelm Konrad R”ntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1847 - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1851 - Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy, Paris, comp (Symphonie C‚venole)
1851 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
1854 - Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le Chant Gr‚gorien)
1857 - Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
1857 - Pearson, mathematician
1858 - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
1859 - George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1867 - Edyth Walker, US singer
1868 - Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
1871 - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879 - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1883 - Jan Kunc, composer
1886 - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
1889 - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
1891 - Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Arar t/Sd a nap)
1892 - Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof‚, NY, composer
1892 - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1893 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1894 - William Harrigan, NYC
1897 - ... Hartree, mathematician
1897 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Ill, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) [NS]

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1901 - Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 - Wilhelm Conrad von R”ntgen, physicist (Nobel)
1902 - Mary Armour, artist
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - ... Kalm r, mathematician
1907 - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 - Jacques [Iza„k] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912 - Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1913 - Godfrey Turner, composer
1914 - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1914 - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 - Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1921 - Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1922 - Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
1923 - Shusaku Endo, writer
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1924 - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
1924 - Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
1925 - Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1926 - Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
1927 - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 - Cecil B”dker, writer
1927 - Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
1927 - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
1928 - Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1930 - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1930 - Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Phila Phillies)
1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)