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Happy Sunday!  Any cigar deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about? Join in this discussion and perhaps learn something along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!

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Good morning guys.

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4 Montecristo Churchill Extra (7.5"x52)
          5/32.50
 3 Man O' War Robusto (5.5"x50)
         10/34.99
 2 Don Pepin Garcia Blue
          5/22.50
 1 La Historia by E.P. Carrillo
          5/29.99
 

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4 Montecristo Churchill Extra (7.5"x52)
          5/32.50
 3 Man O' War Robusto (5.5"x50)
         10/34.99
 2 Don Pepin Garcia Blue
          5/22.50
 1 La Historia by E.P. Carrillo
          5/29.99
 

The jam started off with a little steam, 2 hours now on this log jam. 

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On this day in history ..
1535 - Karel V's fleet sails under Andrea Doria to Tunis
1541 - Duke Willem van Gulik of Gelre marries Jeanne d'Albret
1565 - Catharina de Medici & Duke of Alva discuss Calvinism
1597 - At 4:30 AM Willem Barents leaves Novaya Zemlya for Netherlands
1615 - Jacques Le Maire sail to Zuidland/Terra Australis
1623 - 1st breach-of-promise lawsuit: Rev Gerville Pooley, Va files against Cicely Jordan, he loses
1634 - Russia & Poland sign Peace treaty of Polianov
1642 - 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1645 - Battle at Naseby Leicester: New Model army under Oliver Cromwell & Thomas Fairfax beats royalists
1647 - English New Model-army installed
1658 - Battle at Dunes: English & French fleet beat Spanish
1673 - Battle at Schooneveld: Michiel de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1755 - 1e edition of Dr Johnsons "Dictionary"
1775 - US Army founded
1777 - Continental Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag
1789 - Capt William Blighs reaches Timor
1800 - Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria
1834 - Hardhat diving suit patented by Leonard Norcross, Dixfield, Maine
1834 - Isaac Fischer Jr patents sandpaper
1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1839 - 1st Henley Regatta held
1841 - 1st Canadian parliament opens in Kingston, Ontario
1846 - Belgian Liberal Party forms
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma
1846 - California declares independence from Mexico
1847 - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner
1850 - Fire destroys part of SF
1861 - Harpers Ferry evacuated by rebels in face of McClellan's advance
1863 - Battle of 2nd Winchester, Virginia
1864 - Congress rules Black soldiers must receive equal pay
1864 - US Union warship USS Kearsarge appears at Cherbourg
1870 - All-pro Cincinnati Red Stockings suffer 1st loss in 130 games
1876 - 1st player to hit for cycle (George Hall, Phila Athletics)
1876 - California Street Cable Car Railroad Co gets its franchise
1880 - 14th Belmont: L Hughes aboard Grenada wins in 2:47
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1898 - France signs Niger Convention

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1900 - Hawaiian Territorial Government begins
1901 - 1st golf championship is played
1904 - Dutch troops occupies Kuto Reh, Sumatra, killing all inhabitants
1906 - Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
1907 - Govt of Transvaal sends home 50,000 Chinese day workers
1907 - Norway restricts woman's voting rights
1917 - 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1917 - Gen Pershing & his HQ staff arrived in Paris during WW I
1919 - 1st nonstop air crossing of Atlantic (Alcock & Brown) leaves Nfld
1922 - 5th PGA Championship: Gene Sarazen at Oakmont CC Oakmont Pa
1922 - Charles Hoffner wins PGA golf tournament
1922 - Pres Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicating the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore
1923 - Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1924 - Test Cricket debuts of Herbert Sutcliffe & Maurice Tate v S Africa
1924 - WOKO-AM radio begins transmitting from Albany NY
1926 - 2nd French Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Mary K Browne (61 60)
1928 - Republican Natl Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover
1929 - Prussia & Vatican sign Concord
1930 - VVGZ soccer team forms in Zwijndrecht
1931 - French "St Philbert" overturns off St Nazaire France, drowns 450
1931 - Reinhard Heydrichs 1st meeting with Himmler
1932 - German govt of von Papen forms
1933 - Lou Gehrig & Joe McCarthy thrown out of game, McCarthy suspended 3 games but Gehrig isn't, so he continues his streak at 1,249 games
1934 - Hitler & Mussolini meet in Vienna
1934 - Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City
1934 - WOQ-AM in KC Missouri goes off the air
1935 - Chaco War between Bolivia & Paraguay ends
1936 - Oranienburg Concentration Camp opens
1938 - Bradman scores 144* in 1st Test Cricket at Trent Bridge
1938 - Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1940 - German U-47 sinks airship Balmoral
1940 - German forces occupied Paris during WW II
1941 - Ground broken for Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) Wichita KS
1941 - Estonia loses 11,000 inhabitants as a consequence of mass deportations into Siberia
1942 - 1st bazooka rocket gun produced Bridgeport Ct
1942 - Anne Frank begins her diary
1942 - French govt of Reynaud resigns
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1944 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944 - General Charles de Gaulle lands at Courselles France
1946 - Canadian Library Association established
1948 - Klemens Gottwald becomes president of Czechoslovakia
1949 - State of Vietnam forms, Bao Dai installed as Emperor
1949 - WROC TV channel 8 in Rochester, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 - "Courtin' Time" opens at National Theater NYC for 37 performances
1951 - 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau
1952 - 52nd US Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Northwood Club Dallas
1952 - Boston Brave Warren Spahn strikes out 18 Cubs in 15 innings
1952 - General strike in Tunisia
1952 - Jim Peters runs world record marathon (2:20:42.2)
1952 - Keel laid for 1st nuclear powered sub Nautilus

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1952 - Braves Warren Spahn ties NL record of Jim Whitney with 18 strikeouts against the Cubs in 15-inning, 3-1 loss
1953 - Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal
1953 - Elvis Presley graduates from LC Humes High School in Memphis Tenn
1953 - Military coup by general Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in Colombia
1953 - Yanks sweep Indians 6-2, 3-0 before 74,708 win streak at 18 straight
1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
1956 - "New Faces of 1956" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 221 perfs
1957 - 42.0 cm rain falls on East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1957 - Edouard Carpentier beats Lou Thesz, to become NWA wrestling champ
1958 - 58th US Golf Open: Tommy Bolt shoots a 283 at Southern Hills in Tulsa
1958 - British parachutists lands on Cyprus
1958 - Nelson Mandela weds Winnie Madikizela
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
1961 - 106øF, hottest temperature in SF
1963 - NY Met Duke Snider hits his 400th HR
1963 - Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days
1964 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1965 - Beatles release album "Beatles VI"
1965 - Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits NY Mets but loses in 11, 1-0
1965 - John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published
1966 - Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
1966 - Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball
1967 - Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby)
1967 - Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV
1967 - USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit
1968 - Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
1969 - John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show
1969 - Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7
1970 - Cincinnati Red Stockings loses 1st game after winning 130 straight
1972 - Hurricane Agnes kills 117
1973 - 46th National Spelling Bee: Barrie Trinkle wins spelling vouchsafe
1974 - Angels' Nolan Ryan strikes out 19 Red Sox in 12 innings
1975 - 45th French Womens Tennis: Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 62 61)
1975 - Janis Ian releases "At 17"
1975 - USSR launches Venera 10 for Venus landing
1976 - "Gong Show" premieres on TV (syndication)
1976 - 12th Mayor's Trophy Game Yanks beat Mets 8-4
1978 - Down 9-7 in 10th with 2 outs, Yanks Paul Blair hits a 3 run HR
1978 - Sierra Leone adopts constitution
1979 - Canada all out 45 in Cricket World Cup v England, in 40 3 overs
1979 - NY Giants Willie McCovey 513th HR is an NL lefty record
1979 - Rock group "Little Feat" disbands
1980 - Theme From NY, NY by Frank Sinatra hits #32
1981 - 27th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1981 - No Nukes concert at Hollywood Bowl
1982 - Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Is, ends 74-day conflict

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1983 - 5 killed in a fire at a Ramada Inn in Fort Worth, Tx
1984 - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members
1985 - "Michael Nesmith In Television Parts" premieres on NBC-TV
1985 - Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles
1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim extremists hijacked TWA Flight 847
1987 - "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4« years
1987 - 41st NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Boston Celtics, 4 games to 2
1987 - 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor
1987 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1988 - Woman sues Chuck Berry for $5,000,000 alleges he hit her
1989 - Ground breaking begins in Minn on world's largest mall
1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 - Queen Elizabeth II knights Ronald Reagan
1989 - Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slaping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
1990 - 44th NBA Championship: Det Pistons beat Por Trailblazers, 4 games to 1
1990 - Date of the events in the movie Mr Destiny
1990 - NL announces plans to expand from 12 to 14 teams for 1993 season
1990 - Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional
1991 - "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves" opens
1991 - Leroy Burrell of USA sets 100m record (9.90) in NYC
1991 - Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands
1992 - 10th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Dave Stockton
1992 - 46th NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Port Trailblazers, 4 games to 2
1992 - Anne-Marie Palli wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Mona Van Duyn is named 1st female US poet laureate
1992 - Ozzie Smith breaks Roy McMillan's NL mark by taking part in his 1,305th career double play
1993 - Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 - Tansu Ciller appointed 1st female premier of Turkey
1994 - Stanley Cup: NY Rangers beat Vancouver Canucks, 4 games to 3
1995 - 49th NBA Championship: Houston Rockets sweep Orlando Magic in 4 games
1995 - Giants infielder Mike Benjamin goes 6-for-7 in 13-inning 4-3 win
1996 - "Cable Guy" starring Jim Carrey is released
1996 - Karl Krikken out handled the ball for Derbyshire v Indians
1998 - "Comic Relief" benefit comedy show
1998 - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
1998 - wins Oldsmobile Golf Classic

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Famous birthdays for this day ..

1529 - Ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia)
1657 - Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral
1691 - Jan Francisci, composer
1730 - Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer [or Jul 23 1734]
1736 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1760 - Candido Jose Ruano, composer
1763 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
1769 - Dominique Della-Maria, composer
1805 - Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1820 - John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1821 - Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
1835 - Nikolay Rubinstein, composer
1836 - Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
1854 - Frederik Rung, composer
1855 - Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
1856 - Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1864 - Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1865 - Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
1868 - Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1874 - Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1882 - Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia
1882 - Michael Zadora, composer
1883 - Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
1884 - John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
1889 - Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
1895 - Cliff Edwards, Hannibal MO, singer (When You Wish Upon a Star)
1895 - Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
1899 - Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)

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1900 - June Walker, IL, actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven)
1903 - Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1904 - Benno Ammann, composer
1906 - Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1906 - Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
1906 - Margaret Bourke-White, photographer/innovator/correspondent
1907 - Ren‚ Char, French poet/painter
1908 - John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 - Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1910 - Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72)
1912 - E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (1st to link smoking with lung cancer)
1916 - Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916 - Karl-Rudi Griesbach, composer
1917 - Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1918 - Carter Harman, composer
1918 - Dorothy McGuire, Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1918 - Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72)
1919 - Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal)
1920 - Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
1921 - Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law)
1922 - Arthur Jacobs, musicologist
1923 - Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957)
1923 - Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
1923 - Theodore Bloomfield, composer
1924 - Solouchin, writer
1925 - Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter
1925 - David Bache, designer
1925 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1926 - Hermann Kant, writer
1928 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara Serna, Arg/Cuba revolutionary (Cuba)
1929 - Alan Davidson, cricketer (mighty Australian lefty quick all-rounder)
1929 - Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1931 - Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1932 - Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
1933 - Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
1935 - Jan Nijland, cattle breeder/Dutch MP (CDA)
1939 - Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1940 - Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
1940 - Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
1940 - Jack Bannon, LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
1940 - John Mizelle, composer
1941 - John Edgar Widerman, US writer
1943 - F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin)
1943 - Muff [Mervyn] Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1943 - W J [Billy] Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980- )
1945 - Rod Argent, rocker (She's Not There-Zombies, Hold Your Head Up-Argent)
1946 - Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
1946 - Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher
1949 - Alan White, English rock drummer (Yes, Ramshackled)
1949 - Bob Frankston, programmer (VisiCalc)

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1949 - Rochelle Firestone, Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole)
1950 - Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem)
1952 - Eddie Mekka, Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley)
1952 - Jimmy Lea, England, rock bassist (Slade)
1953 - David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu)
1954 - Will Patton, Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
1955 - Kim Lankford, Montebello Calif, actress (Gingers-Knots Landing)
1955 - Larry Burrows, fictional character (Mr Destiny)
1955 - Vince Evans, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1956 - Frederick Funk, Takoma Park MD, PGA golfer (1992 Shell Houston Open)
1958 - Brian David Willis, rock drummer (Quarterflash)
1958 - Carina Persson, Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983)
1958 - Eric Heiden, Wisc, «/1/1«/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980)
1960 - Tonie Campbell, LA Calif, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 - "Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist & druggie (Culture Club)
1961 - Grace Jackson, St Ann Jamaica, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1961 - Sam Perkins, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1962 - Scott Radecic, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1963 - James Patrick, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1963 - Laurel Kean, Portland ME, LPGA golfer (1994 JAL Big Apple-17th)
1964 - Jamie Dukes, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1964 - Randall Thompson, Halifax Nova Scotia, boxer (Olympics-96)
1966 - Ricky Siglar, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs, New Orleans Saints)
1966 - Rod Stephens, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1966 - Traylor Howard, Orlando Fla, actress (Joy Byrnes-Boston Common)
1967 - Ante Mise, Yugoslav soccer player (Hajduk Split/Vitesse)
1967 - Dedrick Dodge, NFL safety (SF 49ers, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Wendy Lian Williams, St Louis Mo, US diver (Olympic-bronze-88, 92)
1968 - Brian Wiggins, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1968 - Eric Murdock, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Miami Heat)
1968 - Tony Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1968 - Yasmine Bleeth, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live, Baywatch)
1969 - Eric Desjardins, Rauyn Quebec, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Canada)
1969 - Eugene Chung, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Steffi Graf, Bruhl West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988)
1970 - Simone Fleurice Eden, Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989)
1970 - Todd Manning, fictional character (One Life to Live)
1970 - Willie Beamon, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1971 - Bruce Bowen, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1971 - Fred Baxter, NFL tight end (NY Jets)
1972 - Jeff Kysar, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Rick Brunson, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers)
1973 - Daniel Marsh, cricketer (son of Rod South Aust slow lefty since 1993)
1973 - Michael Cade, NJ, actor (Sylvester Winkle-Calif Dreams)
1973 - Sam Shade, NFL strong safety (Cin Bengals)
1973 - Sami Kapanen, Vantaa Fin, NHL left wing (Whalers, Carolina, Oly-B-98)
1973 - Stepfret Williams, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 - Rod Payne, corner (Cincinnati Bengals)
1975 - A J Mleczko, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1976 - Rita Carvalho, Miss Universe-Portugal (1996)
1994 - Nicholas Pietro Santopictro, son of Vanna White
2160 - Montgomery Edward Scott, Aberdeen Scotland, fictional eng (Star Trek)

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Late for Work
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Tom had this problem of getting up late in the morning and was always late for work.  His boss was mad at him and threatened to fire him if he didn't do something about it. 

So Tom went to his doctor who gave him a pill and told him to take it before he went to bed.  Tom slept well and in fact beat the alarm in the morning. He had a leisurely breakfast and  drove cheerfully to work. "Boss", he said, "The pill actually worked!" 

"That's all fine" said the boss, "But where were you yesterday?"

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5 Joya de Nicaragua Red Toro (6.0"x52)
         10/34.99
 4 Montecristo Churchill Extra (7.5"x52)
          5/32.50
 3 Man O' War Robusto (5.5"x50)
         10/34.99
 2 Don Pepin Garcia Blue
          5/22.50
 1 La Historia by E.P. Carrillo
          5/29.99
 

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6 Padron #2000 Maduro (Robusto) (5.0"x50)
          4/20.80
 5 Joya de Nicaragua Red Toro (6.0"x52)
         10/34.99
 4 Montecristo Churchill Extra (7.5"x52)
          5/32.50
 3 Man O' War Robusto (5.5"x50)
         10/34.99
 2 Don Pepin Garcia Blue
          5/22.50
 1 La Historia by E.P. Carrillo
          5/29.99
 

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I don't normally get to sheesh this late in the morning.