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Title: 2/12/2023
Post by: CigarBanter on February 12, 2023, 08:08:35 AM
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!
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:10:44 AM
JoeCigar:

Hoyo Excalibur Epicure - Natural (5.2"x50) - 10 / $37.50
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:15:54 AM
Cigar.com:

Door #1 - Historic Herf Collection - 15 / $49.99
includes:
Five premiums apiece from Cohiba, La Gloria Cubana, and Partagás.

Door #2 - Hoyo Excalibur Epicure (Robusto) (5.2"x50) - 5 / $22.50

Door #3 - Rocky Patel Vintage '03 Cameroon Robusto (5.5"x50) - 10 / $49.99
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:18:12 AM
Happy birthday, Mr. Lincoln!
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:19:20 AM


Cigar.com:


Door #2 - Hoyo Excalibur Epicure (Robusto) (5.2"x50) - 5 / $22.50


Psst. I know where you could get these a bit cheaper.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:22:16 AM


Cigar.com:

Door #1 - Historic Herf Collection - 15 / $49.99
includes:
Five premiums apiece from Cohiba, La Gloria Cubana, and Partagás.

Interesting how they're handling this one. Not sure I recall them ever telling us they'll give us 5 from each maker but not list out the specifics. Either way, I wasn't buying.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:24:02 AM
Good morning, fellas. Two games at the same time today, so the Mrs and I are dividing and conquering. She gets futsal and I get basketball.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:30:16 AM
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Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 08:32:37 AM
Happy Super Bowl Sunday!
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 08:33:05 AM
Morning Tony and Dave.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:46:49 AM
Morning Tony and Dave.
When you say, Dave... Are you referring to yourself in the third person?
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 08:50:01 AM
How goes it, ClemsonDave? We getting passed Page 2 today?
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 09:08:38 AM
Today is Sunday, Feb. 12, the 43rd day of 2023.
There are 322 days left in the year.



Today’s Highlight in History:

On Feb. 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a log cabin in Hardin (now LaRue) County, Kentucky.

On this date:

In 1554, Lady Jane Grey, who had claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.

In 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the NAACP, was founded.

In 1912, Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.

In 1914, groundbreaking took place for the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. (A year later on this date, the cornerstone was laid.)

In 1973, Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

In 1983, composer-pianist Eubie Blake, who wrote such songs as “I’m Just Wild About Harry” and “Memories of You,” died in Brooklyn, New York, five days after turning 100.

In 1999, the Senate voted to acquit President Bill Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.

In 2000, Charles M. Schulz, creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip, died in Santa Rosa, California, at age 77.

In 2002, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial in The Hague, accused of war crimes (he died in 2006 before the trial could conclude).

In 2006, figure skater Michelle Kwan effectively retired from competition as she withdrew from the Turin Olympics due to injury (she was replaced on the U.S. team by Emily Hughes). Snowboarder Shaun White beat American teammate Danny Kass to win the Olympic gold medal.

In 2019, Mexico’s most notorious drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, was convicted in New York of running an industrial-scale smuggling operation; a jury, whose members’ identities were kept secret as a security measure, had deliberated for six days. (Guzman is serving a life sentence at the federal supermax prison facility in Florence, Colorado.)

In 2020, Holland America Line said a cruise ship, the MS Westerdam, which had been barred from docking by four governments because of fears of the coronavirus, would arrive the next day in Cambodia. In Japan, officials confirmed 39 new cases on a cruise ship that had been quarantined at Yokohama, bringing the total number of cases on the Diamond Princess to 174.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 09:10:16 AM
Ten years ago: The manhunt for a rogue ex-Los Angeles cop Christopher Dorner, who was seeking revenge for his firing, came to an end with his apparent suicide in a mountain cabin following a gunbattle with law enforcement; authorities blamed him for killing four people, including two officers. The U.N. Security Council strongly condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear test. IOC leaders dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap one of the oldest sports on the Olympic program.

Five years ago: In a retreat from promises to balance the budget, President Donald Trump unveiled a $4.4 trillion plan that envisioned steep cuts to America’s social safety net but mounting military spending; the outline acknowledged that the 2017 Republican tax overhaul would add billions to the deficit. Two Baltimore police detectives were convicted of robbery, racketeering and conspiracy at a trial that was part of a federal probe of corruption among rogue members of the city’s police force. The National Portrait Gallery unveiled portraits of former President Barack Obama and his wife, painted by African-American artists chosen by the Obamas. American snowboarder Jamie Anderson won gold in the women’s slopestyle event at the Winter Olympics in South Korea.


One year ago: President Joe Biden called on President Vladimir Putin to pull back more than 100,000 Russian troops massed near Ukraine’s borders and warned that the U.S. and its allies would “respond decisively and impose swift and severe costs” if Russia invaded. (Russia would invade Ukraine eight days later.) Paris police fired tear gas against a handful of demonstrators on the Champs Elysees Avenue who defied a police order by taking part in a vehicle protest against virus restrictions.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 09:13:53 AM
Today’s birthdays:

Movie director Costa-Gavras is 90.
Actor Joe Don Baker is 87.
 Author Judy Blume is 85.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is 81.
Country singer Moe Bandy is 79.
Actor Maud Adams is 78.
Actor Cliff DeYoung is 77.
Actor Michael Ironside is 73.
Rock musician Steve Hackett is 73.
Rock singer Michael McDonald is 71.
Actor Joanna Kerns is 70.
Actor Zach Grenier is 69.
Actor-talk show host Arsenio Hall is 67.
Actor John Michael Higgins is 60.
Actor Raphael Sbarge is 59.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is 58.
Actor Christine Elise is 58.
Actor Josh Brolin is 55.
Singer Chynna Phillips is 55.
Rock musician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies) is 53.
Actor Jesse Spencer is 44.
Rapper Gucci Mane is 43.
 Actor Sarah Lancaster is 43.
Actor Christina Ricci is 43.
Actor Jennifer Stone is 30.
Actors Baylie and Rylie Cregut (TV: “Raising Hope”) are 13.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 09:14:59 AM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 13
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 09:17:09 AM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 13
Only seven for me.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 09:24:56 AM
And even though I didn't need them to get to page 2, enjoy.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 12, 2023, 09:25:49 AM
And one of my all time favorites,
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 12, 2023, 09:42:28 AM
Morning, muchachos.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 12, 2023, 09:42:52 AM
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Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 12, 2023, 09:45:52 AM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 13
Only eight. I couldn't pick Costa-Gavras out of a lineup, nor Judy Blume.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 10:15:35 AM
Morning, boyos. Happy Super Sunday.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 10:16:00 AM


Cigar.com:

Door #1 - Historic Herf Collection - 15 / $49.99
includes:
Five premiums apiece from Cohiba, La Gloria Cubana, and Partagás.

Interesting how they're handling this one. Not sure I recall them ever telling us they'll give us 5 from each maker but not list out the specifics. Either way, I wasn't buying.
Definitely an odd approach.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 10:16:30 AM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 13
7
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 10:16:54 AM
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Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 10:18:23 AM
Finished up some errands this morning, including picking up snacks for game time. Later on, going out for a delayed bday outing for the youngest. She has chosen another buffet. Oof.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 04:08:04 PM
Made bacon wrapped dates, taco dip and a chocolate caramel cake to bring to a Super Bowl party. I think I'm ready for the Chiefs to bring it home.

But seriously, I'd be happy for either team to win just as long as the scores end up in my boxes.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 05:35:24 PM
Made bacon wrapped dates, taco dip and a chocolate caramel cake to bring to a Super Bowl party. I think I'm ready for the Chiefs to bring it home.

But seriously, I'd be happy for either team to win just as long as the scores end up in my boxes.
Sounds pretty tasty. But surely you're in Iggles country, no?

Got some potato skins, mozzarella sticks, fried mac and cheese balls and jalapeño poppers. Not to mention chips, salsa and queso. Kids are already asking when we're gonna start making stuff.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 05:46:57 PM
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Don't forget the separators.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 05:47:23 PM
Made bacon wrapped dates, taco dip and a chocolate caramel cake to bring to a Super Bowl party. I think I'm ready for the Chiefs to bring it home.

But seriously, I'd be happy for either team to win just as long as the scores end up in my boxes.
Sounds pretty tasty. But surely you're in Iggles country, no?

Got some potato skins, mozzarella sticks, fried mac and cheese balls and jalapeño poppers. Not to mention chips, salsa and queso. Kids are already asking when we're gonna start making stuff.
Oh, and some small chocolate chip cookie sandwiches.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 07:01:30 PM
Tony really left the door open today, apparently.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on February 12, 2023, 09:25:39 PM
A little Sunday Gravy for Super Sunday

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Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 12, 2023, 09:53:41 PM
Cohiba Red Dot here. It was actually a very good cigar. Even burn, good smoke, good flavor. And Pop got them for $3. For $3, that was a really good cigar.
Title: Re: 2/12/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 12, 2023, 11:37:25 PM
Made bacon wrapped dates, taco dip and a chocolate caramel cake to bring to a Super Bowl party. I think I'm ready for the Chiefs to bring it home.

But seriously, I'd be happy for either team to win just as long as the scores end up in my boxes.
And sure enough they did. There were only 25¢ boxes but my $6 invested won me $20. That's not a bad return at all. And in the end, the AFC won, which I also didn't mind.