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[CigarBanter]

What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  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!

[A Friend of Charlie]

No cigar deals worth staying up for so I'm out. Good night, boys.

[South Carolina Redfish]

No cigar deals worth staying up for so I'm out. Good night, boys.

Looks like CI Joe had PUNCH Bareknickles for FREE but sold out.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Morning Snowflakes

[South Carolina Redfish]

Another day of scattered showers and thunderstorms here, 72 now and a high around 80-

Weekend forecast looks sunny and warm.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Happy Birthday to Cigar Smoking WWII Veterans  Richard Overton and My Dad (1914-2003)

Richard Overton to turn 111 with cigars, whiskey and new street name

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/richard-overton-turn-111-with-cigars-whiskey-and-new-street-name/vgHdhlQruvofdwPjtOEF7N/

[South Carolina Redfish]

Work Time, BBL

[Travellin Dave]

Morning CarolinaDave.  That IT offering at CI continues...sheesh.

[Travellin Dave]

Today is Thursday, May 11, the 131st day of 2017. There are 234 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On May 11, 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.

On this date:

In 1647, Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam to become governor of New Netherland.

In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.

In 1937, “SPAM” was registered as a trademark by Hormel Foods, producer of the canned meat product.

In 1947, the B.F. Goodrich Company of Akron, Ohio, announced the development of a tubeless tire.

In 1953, a tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming 114 lives.

In 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges, citing government misconduct.

In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a Miami hospital at age 36.

In 1985, 56 people died when a flash fire swept a jam-packed soccer stadium in Bradford, England.

In 1987, doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore transplanted the heart and lungs of an auto accident victim into a cystic fibrosis patient who gave up his own healthy heart to another recipient. (Clinton House, the nation’s first living heart donor, died 14 months later.)

In 1996, an Atlanta-bound ValuJet DC-9 caught fire shortly after takeoff from Miami and crashed into the Florida Everglades, killing all 110 people on board.

In 1997, IBM’s “Deep Blue” computer demolished an overwhelmed Garry Kasparov, winning the six-game chess re-match between man and machine in New York.

[Travellin Dave]

Ten years ago: Speaking aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf, Vice President Dick Cheney warned Iran the U.S. and its allies would keep it from restricting sea traffic as well as from developing nuclear weapons. North and South Korea adopted a military agreement, enabling the first train crossing of their border in more than half a century. (The first freight trains began running between the two Koreas in Dec. 2007, but the border was closed by North Korea almost a year later.)

Five years ago: A Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson’s former brother-in-law, William Balfour, of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew. (Balfour was sentenced to life in prison.)

One year ago: A white former South Carolina police officer already facing a state murder charge in the shooting death of unarmed black motorist Walter Scott was indicted on federal charges including depriving the victim of his civil rights. A SpaceX capsule returned to Earth with precious science samples from NASA’s one-year space station resident, Scott Kelly, who had returned to Earth the previous March. CBS News veteran Morley Safer, a “60 Minutes” correspondent for all but two of the newsmagazine’s 48-year history, announced his retirement (Safer died eight days later at age 84).

[Travellin Dave]

1888 Irving Berlin [Israel Isidore Baline], American composer and lyricist considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history (God Bless America, White Xmas), born in Tyumen, Russian Empire (d. 1989)
1888 P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council
1888 Willis A. Lee, World War II U.S. naval admiral (d. 1945)
1890 Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
1891 Henry Morgenthau Jr, US Secretary of Treasury (1934-45)
1892 Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul)
1894 Anton A Mussert, Dutch nazi leader (NSB)
1894 Florimond Cornellie, Belgium, yachting (Olympic-gold-1920)
1894 Martha Graham, Allegheny Penn, choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
1895 Jan Parandowski, writer
1895 William Grant Still, Woodville Mississippi, composer (Afro-American)
1896 Josip Slavenski, composer
1896 Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter
1897 Izak W van der Merwe, [Boerneef], South African writer (Tweetalige Woordeboek)
1897 Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1899 Paulino Masip, Spanish playwright (d. 1963)
1901 Mari Sandoz, Nebraska, author (Cheyenne Autumn)
1902 Kaarlo Sarkia, Finnish poet (Unen Kaivo)
1903 Charlie Gehringer, Detroit Tigers' 2nd baseman (1924-42)
1904 Guus Weitzel, Dutch radio-announcer
1904 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion), born in Figueres, Spain (d. 1989)
1905 Marjorie Sykes, peace campaigner
1906 Kent Taylor, [Louis Weiss], Iowa, actor (Boston Blackie, Rough Riders)
1907 Rose Ausländer, German poet (d. 1988)
1907 Rip Sewell, American baseball player, born in Decatur, Alabama (d. 1989)
1909 Herbert Murrill, composer
1909 René Bousquet, French Vichy-police chief (deported Jews), born in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne (d. 1993)
1910 Jorge Croner de Vasconcelos, Portuguese composer (d. 1974)
1911 Doodles Weaver, comedian (Spike Jones & City Slickers), born in Los Angeles, California
1911 Edgar Beck, president (John Mowlem)
1911 Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier
1911 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (d. 2004)
1912 Foster Brooks, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy), born in Louisville, Kentucky
1912 Phil Silvers, American comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show), born in Brooklyn, New York
1913 Clare Grundman, composer
1913 Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge NJ, orchestra leader (Vic Damone Show)
1913 Robert Jungk, Austrian publicist (d. 1994)
1914 Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist (d. 1998)
1916 Camilo Jose Cela, Spanish writer (Nobel Prize 1989), born in Padrón, La Coruña (d. 2002)
1917 Hon Montague Woodhouse, Greek resistance organiser
1918 Richard P Feynman, physicist (Feynman-diagrams/Nobel prize 1965)
1918 Robert Hunt, CEO (Dowty Group)
1920 Beryl Bryden, jazz singer
1920 Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day)
1921 Ian Percival, British politician (C) and Solicitor General (d. 1998)
1921 Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
1922 Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (d. 1992)
1922 Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1923 Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir (Army Nursing Services)
1923 Lord Gordon "Gordy" White, English industrialist/multi-millionaire
1923 Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, British business tycoon
1924 Antony Hewish, radio astronomer
1924 Jackie Milburn, English soccer star (Newcastle United)
1924 Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
1925 Rhodes Boyson, British politician and author (Black Papers), born in Haslingden, Lancashire (d. 2012)
1925 Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2006)
1925 William Glasser, psychiatrist (reality therapy, choice theory), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2013)
1926 Ernest Harrison, CEO (Racal Electronics)
1926 Frank Thring, Australian actor (El Cid, Ben-Hur), born in Melbourne, Victoria
1927 Anthony Hollis, British High Court Judge, (d. 2003)
1927 Mort Sahl, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party), born in Montreal, Quebec
1927 Zilpha Keatly Snyder, US, sci-fi author (Headless Cupid)
1927 Gene Savoy, American author, explorer, scholar and cleric (d. 2007)
1928 Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
1928 Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
1929 Edward Anson, British vice-admiral
1930 M J Hamlin, Principal/Vice-Chancellor (Dundee University)
1930 Stanley L Elkin, American writer/professor (Living End), born in Brooklyn, New York
1930 Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientist (d. 2002)
1930 Bud Ekins, American stuntman (d. 2007)
1930 William Carey, American businessman and philanthropist (W.P. Carey & Co. LLC) (d. 2012), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1931 Stephen Smalley, rev/dean (Chester)
1932 Henriette Santer, clinical Psychologist
1932 Valentino [Garavani], fashion designer, born in Milan, Italy
1933 Louis Farrakhan, minister (black islam nation, million man march)
1934 James M Jeffords, (Rep-R-VT, 1975- )
1935 Doug McClure, actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots), born in Glendale, California
1935 Francisco Umbral, Spanish novelist (d. 2007)
1936 Ulrich Berkes, German writer, born in Salle
1937 David Allan, cricketer (West Indian wicketkeeper 1962-66)
1938 Carla Bley [Carla Borg], American musician (Escalator Over the Hill), born in Oakland, California
1938 Harvey Sollberger, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1939 Milt Pappas, American baseball pitcher, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2016)
1939 Carlos Lyra, Brazilian musician
1940 Ronald Anthony Pellegrino, composer
1940 Juan Downey, Chilean video artist (d. 1993)
1941 Eric Burdon, Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
1941 Ian Redpath, cricketer (dependable Australian opening batsman 1964-76)
1941 Graham Miles, English snooker player
1942 Rachel Billington, British writer
1943 Arnie Satin, rocker (The Dovells), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1943 George Edwards, composer
1943 Les Chadwick, bassist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersy)
1943 Nancy Greene, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 Juliet Harmer, English actress
1944 John Benaud, cricketer (brother of Richie, Australian bat 1972-73)
1946 Plume Latraverse, Quebec singer and musician
1947 Butch Trucks, drummer (the Allman Brothers), born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 2017)
1948 Alfred Matt, Austria, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1948 Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-British politician
1948 Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
1950 Dane Iorg, baseball player (Philles, Cards)
1950 Jeremy Paxman, broadcaster
1951 Mike Sleman, rugby player
1952 Darrow Igus, comedian (Fridays, Roll Out), born in Newark, New Jersey
1952 Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian actress
1952 Frances Fisher, English-born actress
1952 Mike Lupica, American sports journalist
1952 Renaud Séchan, French composer
1952 Warren Littlefield, American television executive
1953 Boyd Gaines, actor (Mark-One Day at a Time, Sure Thing), born in Atlanta, Georgia
1953 David Gest, American television producer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)
1954 Edgar Riley Jr, rocker (Axe K)
1954 Judith Weir, English composer, Master of the Queen's Music, born in Cambridge
1954 John Gregory, English football manager
1954 Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian journalist and broadcaster
1955 Jos Haagmans, Dutch singer (Frank Boeijen Group)
1955 Mark Herndon, country drummer (Alabama-Take Me Down), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
1955 John DeStefano, Jr., American politician
1956 Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist
1956 Alex Lester, British broadcaster
1957 Luca Urbani, MD/astronaut (STS 78-alt), born in Rome, Italy
1958 Peter Antonie, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1958 Walt Terrell, baseball player
1959 Martha Quinn, MTV VJ (Tracey-Bradys), born in Albany, New York
1960 Jorgen Schult, German FR, discus thrower (world record 1986)
1961 Cecile Licad, Manila Philippines, pianist (Leventritt Award-1981)
1961 Diana Lee[-Hsu], playmate (May, 1988), born in Seattle, Washington
1962 Steve Bono, NFL quarterback (KC Chiefs, GB Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1963 Blair Piercy, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Cordova Bay Open), born in Vancouver, Canada
1963 Mark Breland, American welterweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1984), born in Brooklyn, New York
1963 Natasha Richardson, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale), born in London, England
1963 Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
1963 Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian
1963 Roark Critchlow, actor
1964 Bobby Witt, pitcher (Texas Rangers), born in Arlington, Virginia
1964 Drew Story, San Clemente California, American canoeist (alt-Olympics-96)
1964 Floyd Youmans, baseball pitcher (Expos)
1964 Jeff Sellers, baseball pitcher (Red Sox)
1964 John Parrott, snooker player
1964 Katie Wagner, daughter of Robert Wagner/model/guest VJ (MTV)
1964 Tim Blake Nelson, American actor, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1965 Greg Dulli, American musician
1965 Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor
1966 Chris Mohr, NFL punter (Buffalo Bills)
1966 Trenidad Hubbard, MBA outfielder (Colorado Rockies), born in Chicago, Illinois
1966 Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein)
1967 Eric Young, infielder (Colorado Rockies), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey
1967 Jamie Brayshaw, cricketer (son of Ian WA & SA right-handed batsman)
1967 Kenneth Gould, Welterweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988), born in Chicago, Illinois
1968 Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
1969 Amy Legacki, Terrytown NY, 10k runner
1970 Dean Capobianco, Australian 200m/400m (Olympics-92, 96)
1970 Michael Joubert, Australian 400m/800m (Olympics-96)
1970 Nicky Katt, American actor
1970 Glenn Hugill, British television presenter and producer
1971 Corey Fuller, NFL cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 Yo Murphy, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1972 Andrew Bonhomme, Australian golfer, born in Melbourne, Victoria
1972 Hicham El-Mashtoub, NFL center (Houston Oilers)
1972 Stefen Reid, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 Anita Hegh, Australian actress
1973 Dean Pullar, Cobram Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1973 Michelle Venturella, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Patrick Sapp, NFL offensive linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1973 James Haven, American actor
1974 Roger Juffing, soccer player (Fortuna Sittard
1974 Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league footballer
1974 Billy Kidman, American professional wrestler
1974 Benoît Magimel, French actor
1974 Darren Ward, Welsh footballer
1977 Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper
1977 Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
1977 Pablo García, Uruguayan footballer
1977 Victor Matfield, South African rugby union footballer
1977 Matthew Newton, Australian actor
1978 Richard Spencer, American white supremacist, born in Boston, Massachusetts
1978 Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish Cellist from the band Apocalyptica
1978 Laetitia Casta, French supermodel and actress
1979 Erin Lang, Canadian musician
1980 Matthew Lawrence, actor (Dynasty, Matthew-Brotherly Love), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1981 Austin O'Brien, actor (Apollo 13, My Girl 2, Lawnmower Man)
1981 Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1981 Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player
1982 Jonathan Jackson, actor (Lucky-General Hospital), born in Orlando Florida
1982 Andrew Walter, American football player
1982 Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (Glee, Monte Carlo), born in Calgary, Alberta (d. 2013)
1983 Matt Leinart, American football player
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1983 Holly Valance, Australian actress (Felicity "Flick" Scully-Neighbours) and singer, born in Melbourne, Victoria
1984 Andres Iniesta, Spanish football player
1985 Sifow (Shiho Fujita), Japanese pop star and business woman
1986 Abou Diaby, French footballer
1986 Ronny, Brazilian footballer
1986 Manuel "Grubby" Schenkhuizen, Dutch Professional Gamer
1987 Louis Murphy, American college football player
1987 Monica Roşu, Romanian gymnast
1987 Justin King, American football player
1989 Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1989 Ace Hood, American rapper

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning, Daves. Happy Little Friday.

[sfish]

Morning, Daves. Happy Little Friday.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Morning, Daves. Happy Little Friday.

And Scott.

[Travellin Dave]

Off to the airport, homeward!
Have a good one guys.