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[CigarBanter]

It's Tuesday again!  In between insults we'll occasionally discuss cigars.  Join in 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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On this day in history ..
0455 - A D Gaiseric & the Vandals sacked Rome
0575 - Benedict I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0657 - St Eugene I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1129 - Fulco V's son Godfried marries king Henry I's daughter Mathildis
1619 - England & Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies
1625 - Prince Frederik Henry sworn in as viceroy of Holland/Zealand
1627 - English king Charles I establishes Guyana Company
1633 - Prince Frederik Henry conquerors fort Rhine at Cologne
1676 - Battle at Palermo: French beats Dutch/Spanish fleet
1697 - Monarch August van Saksen becomes Catholic
1746 - Russia & Austria sign agreements
1774 - England passed Quartering Act, mandating Colonists must board English troops in their homes
1780 - Anti Catholic demonstration attacks parliament in London
1797 - 1st ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack NY (C Broadhead)
1834 - 5th national black convention meet (NYC)
1835 - P T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 - 1st US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1857 - James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1858 - Donati Comet 1st seen named after it's discoverer
1862 - Gen Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E VA & NC
1862 - Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington DC
1863 - Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1864 - Battle of Cold Harbour, Day 2
1865 - At Galveston, Kirby-Smith surrenders Trans-Mississippi Dept
1866 - Renegade Irish Fenians surrender to US forces
1869 - Cleveland's Forest City play their 1st game (vs Cin Red Stockings)
1873 - Construction begins on Clay St (SF) for world's 1st cable railroad
1875 - James Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1881 - Haarlem-Zandvoort Railway opens
1882 - Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris
1883 - 1st night baseball under lights, Ft Wayne Indiana
1883 - Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1886 - Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
1896 - 30th Belmont: Henry Griffin aboard Hastings wins in 2:24«
1896 - Guglielmo Marconi patents the radio
1899 - Black Americans observed day of fasting to protest lynchings

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1901 - Benjamin Adams arrested for playing golf on Sunday (NY)
1902 - 2nd statewide initiative & referendum law adopted, in Oregon
1903 - Netherlands Korfball League forms
1903 - Pirates win a triple header from Dodgers
1904 - Professor Schron finds microbe that causes photosynthesis
1908 - 33rd Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Royal Tourist wins in 1:46.4
1909 - 43rd Belmont: Eddie Dugan aboard Joe Madden wins in 2:21.6
1910 - 1st roundtrip flight over English Channel (C S Rolls, England)
1910 - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1913 - 1st strike settlement mediated by US Dept of Labor-RR clerks
1913 - Demonstrations for general voting right in Neth
1914 - Glenn Curtiss flies his Langley Aerodrome
1916 - German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1919 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1922 - Suffy McInnis (1st base) ends an errorless string of 1,700 chances
1924 - Snyder Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1925 - NY Yankee Lou Gehrig begins his 2,130 consecutive game streak
1928 - Velveeta Cheese created by Kraft
1930 - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1932 - Franz von Papen "Cabinet of the Baron" premieres
1933 - FDR authorizes 1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1933 - WNJ-AM in Newark NJ goes off the air
1935 - Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player
1936 - Gen Anastasio Somoza takes over as dictator of Nicaragua
1940 - Heavy German bombing on Dunkirk beach
1942 - Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a Navy aviator
1943 - 99th Pursuit Squadron flies 1st combat mission (over Italy)
1943 - German assault on Sebastopol Krim, begins
1944 - Generals Eisenhower & Montgomery dine in Portsmouth
1944 - Judendurchgangslager Vught disbands
1946 - Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy (National Day)
1947 - "Louisiana Lady" opens at Century Theater NYC for 4 performances
1947 - Hungarian premier Ferenc Nagy resigns
1949 - Transjordan renamed Jordan
1950 - ST Louis Browns pitcher Harry Dorish swipes home vs Wash Senators
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Evangelii praecones

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1952 - Maurice Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
1953 - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1954 - John Costello (Cons) becomes premier of Ireland
1956 - Yugoslav president Tito visits Moscow
1957 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 - US TV interviews Khrushchev
1958 - Alan Freed joins WABC (NYC) radio
1958 - Brooks Robinson, hits into 1st of record 4 triple plays
1958 - Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford fans 6 in a row to tie an AL record
1959 - Allen Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid," SF
1960 - Broadway theaters close (labor dispute between owners & Actors Equity)
1962 - 32nd French Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Roy Emerson (36 26 63 97 62)
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1964 - "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 191 performances
1964 - Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India
1964 - Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
1965 - 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (Ganges R India)
1966 - US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1967 - Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston
1968 - Canadians must get govt permission to export silver
1968 - WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 - Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices US destroyer "Frank E Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam)
1969 - Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open
1971 - Ajax wins 16th Europe Cup 1
1973 - "Nash at Nine" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 21 performances
1974 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Baltimore Golf Classic
1974 - Mali adopts constitution
1974 - Malta's constitution goes into effect
1975 - 1st time snow fell in London in June
1975 - James A Healy, 1st black Roman Catholic bishop, consecrated (Maine)
1975 - VP Rockefeller finds no pattern of illegal activities at CIA
1976 - East-Timor People's Assembly accepts annexation through Indonesia
1977 - NJ allows casino gambling in Atlantic City
1979 - John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland)
1979 - NASA launches space vehicle S-198
1979 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1980 - "Your Arm's Too Short to Box..." opens at Ambassador NYC for 149 perfs
1981 - Barbara Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
1982 - "Blues in the Night" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 53 performances
1983 - 1980 movie "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes," released in Germany
1983 - Toilet catches fire on Air Canada's DC-9, 23 die at Cincinnati
1984 - "Welcome To Fun Zone" hosted by Dr Demento airs on NBC-TV
1984 - Actress Jill Ireland has a radical mastectomy

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1985 - 31st LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1985 - 39th Tony Awards: Biloxi Blues & Big River win
1985 - Andreas Papandreous PASOK-party wins election in Greece
1985 - RJ Reynolds Company proposed a merger with Nabisco
1986 - NYC transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
1986 - Regular TV coverage of US Senate sessions begins
1987 - Mariners draft Ken Griffey Jr #1
1988 - 61st Natl Spell Bee: Rageshree Ramachandran wins spelling elegiacal
1988 - Consumer Reports calls for a ban on the Suzuki Samurai automobile
1989 - "Dead Poets Society" starring Robin Williams, premieres
1989 - 14 year old Scott Isaacs spells spoliator to win 1989 Spelling Bee
1989 - Cincinnati Red Eric Davis hits for cycle
1989 - Rolling Stones Bill Wyman marries Mandy Smith
1989 - 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
1990 - "Turtle Power" by Partners In Kryme hits #13
1990 - Seattle's Randy Johnson, no-hits Tigers, 2-0
1991 - 45th Tony Awards: Lost in Yonkers & Will Rogers Follies win
1991 - 4th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1991 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 - Seppo Raty of Finland improves his world javelin record to 318' 1"
1991 - Three Andrettis finished 1-2-3 in the Miller 200 at Wisconsin
1992 - Former NFL NY Giant Coach Bill Parcells undergoes open heart surgery
1992 - Wilson Phillips release their 2nd album "Shadows & Light"
1994 - 67th National Spelling Bee: Ned Andrews wins spelling antediluvian
1994 - Chinook helicopter crashes in North Scotland (29 killed)
1994 - Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
1994 - Sharon Stone files $12m suit against her jeweler
1995 - John Valentin hits 3 HRs
1996 - 50th Tony Awards: Master Class & Rent win
1996 - 51st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1996 - 9th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1997 - Albert Belle's Chic White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends
1997 - Liberals beat Conservatives in France
1997 - Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Okla City bombing, killing 168

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Famous birthdays for this day ..

1491 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-47)
1504 - George/Joris van Egmont, bishop of Utrecht
1535 - Leo XI, [Alessandro O de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1605)
1577 - Giovanni Righi, composer
1614 - Benjamin Rogers, composer
1624 - Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96)
1715 - Herman-Fran‡ois Delange, composer
1740 - Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer (Justine)
1751 - Antoni Weinert, composer
1758 - Cornelis R T Krayenhoff, Dutch fortress engineer/cartographer
1759 - Jan Ekels, the Young, Dutch painter
1777 - Christian Traugott Tag, composer
1802 - Adrian van der Hoop Jr, Dutch poet/critic
1803 - Michail I Glinka, Russian composer
1806 - Isaac Strauss, composer
1807 - Robert Fuhrer, composer
1815 - Philip Kearny, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1821 - Ion Bratianu, (Lib), premier of Romania (1876-88)
1828 - James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer
1830 - Olivier Metra, composer
1831 - Benjamin Hardin Helm, Brig General (Conf)/Lincoln's brother-in-law
1831 - Jan G Palm, Cura‡ao, bandmaster/choir master/composer
1835 - Pius X, [Giuseppe Sarto], 257th Roman Catholic pope (1903-14)
1840 - Thomas Hardy, England, poet/novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd)
1842 - Constantly AM Cap, Flemish poet/etcher
1849 - Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (La femme)
1857 - Edward William Elgar, Broadheath Engld, composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
1857 - Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Denmark, poet (Poutnici Svetem, Nobel 1917)
1858 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer
1863 - Paul Felix Weingartner, Germany, conductor (Zara, Dalmatia)
1864 - Ben Webster, London England, actor (Old Curiosity Shop)
1865 - George Lohmann, cricketer (England's great bowler late 19th cent)
1876 - Hakon Borresen, composer
1879 - Adolf Herckenrath, Flemish playwright/poet (Avondvlam)
1883 - Bokke R S Pollema, Dutch Frisian journalist/author (Lock of Hair)
1890 - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], PA, gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
1891 - Ernst Kunz, composer
1894 - Erich R”mer, Germany, ice hockey player (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1898 - G‚o[rges M] Norge, French/Belgian writer (Les oignons)
1899 - Royal Beal, Brookline MA, actor (Death of a Salesman)

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1901 - Michael Todd, producer (Around the World in 80 Days)
1904 - Johnny Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Oly-5 gold-1924, 28)
1907 - Dorothy West, US journalist/author (Living is Easy)
1908 - Gordon Weir, cricketer (NZ batsman in 11 Tests 1930-37)
1909 - Robin Orr, composer
1911 - Xia Hong, writer
1913 - Barbara Pym, romantic author (Very Private Eye)
1913 - Bert Farber, Bkln NY, orch leader (Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone)
1915 - Lester del Rey, US, sci-fi author (Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars)
1915 - Robert Moffat Palmer, composer
1915 - Walter Tetley, NYC, animation voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show)
1916 - Betty Furness, actress, journalist/consumer advisor (NYC, WNBC)
1917 - Max Showalter, Caldwell Ks, actor/composer (Stockard Channing Show)
1920 - Michael James O'Hehir, commentator/journalist
1920 - Yolande Donlan, NJ, actress (Jigsaw, Expresso Bongo, Penny Princess)
1921 - Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
1922 - Juan A Bardem, Spanish director/critic (C˘micos)
1923 - Del Simmons, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1926 - Milo O'Shea, Dublin Ireland, actor (Barbarella, Romeo & Juliet)
1927 - Andr‚ Vandernoot, Flemish conductor (Royal Flemish Opera)
1927 - Phillip Burton, historian (Vanishing Eagles)
1928 - John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher
1929 - Alcides Lanza, composer
1929 - Frederic Devreese, composer
1929 - Willaim Brown, television executive
1930 - ?, 1st baby born on a vessel passing through Panama Canal
1930 - Charles Pete Conrad Jr, Phila, USN/astro (Gem 5 11, Ap 12, Skylab 2)
1931 - Larry Jackson, baseball player
1932 - Barry Levinson, Baltimore MD, director (Rainman)
1932 - Sammy Turner, Patterson, NJ, singer (Lavender Blue Moods)
1932 - Yaroslav Kirillovich Golovyanov, cosmonaut
1933 - Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orch leader (Tony Orlando, Marie)
1933 - Jerry Lumpe, baseball player
1934 - Johnny Carter, US singer (Give your baby a standing ovation)
1936 - Sally Kellerman, Long Beach Cal, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School)
1936 - Vladimir Golubnichy, USSR, 20K walker (Olympic-gold-1960, 68)
1937 - Jimmy Jones, rocker

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1938 - Frits Wols, [Eugene W Wong Loi Sing], Suriname, sec-gen (UNESCO)
1938 - Gene Michael, baseball shortstop/manager/general manger (NY Yankees)
1939 - Charles Miller, rock flutist/saxophonist (War)
1940 - Christopher Bernau, Santa Barbara CA, actor (Guiding Light)
1940 - Constantine II, deposed King of Greece (1964-73)
1940 - Horace Clarke, baseball 2nd baseman (NY Yankees)
1940 - Jim Maloney, baseball pitcher
1941 - Charlie Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
1941 - Oda Mayumi, Tokyo, resident artist (Green Gulch Zen Center)
1941 - Stacy Keach, Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer)
1941 - William Guest, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight Show)
1942 - Marie Cheatham, Okla, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Guiding Light)
1943 - Charles Haid, SF Ca, actor (Andy Renko-Hill St Blues, Altered States)
1943 - John Lilipaly, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1943 - Maarten B Engwirda, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (D66)
1944 - Garo Yepremian, NFL place kicker (Miami Dolphins)
1944 - Marvin Hamlisch, NYC, composer/pianist (Sting, Chorus Line)
1944 - Poul Jensen, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1945 - Bob Benrit, rocker
1946 - Roger Freed, baseball player
1947 - Jan Ferraris, LPGA golfer
1948 - Albert Innaurato, Phila, playwright/director (Age in Soho)
1948 - Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
1950 - Joanna Gleason, Toronto Canada, actress (Morgan-Hello Larry)
1950 - Toni Alessandrini, Chicago Ill, actress (Vice Academy Part 2)
1950 - [Antone] Chubby Tavares, rocker (Tavares)
1951 - Larry Clark Robinson, NHL defenseman (Mont Canadiens, Norris-77, 80)
1951 - Steve Brookins, rocker (.38 Special)
1953 - Craig Robert Stadler, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (Masters 1982)
1954 - Michael Steele, rocker (Bangles-Eternal Flame, Walk Like an Egyptian)
1955 - Dennis Haysbert, San Mateo Calif, actor (Code Red)
1955 - Gary Grimes, SF, actor (Summer of '42, Class of '44)
1955 - Michael Anthony, Chicago Ill, rock drummer (Van Halen-Jump, 1984)
1956 - Mark L Polansky, Paterson NJ, pilot/astronaut
1958 - Lex Lugar, [Larry Pfohl], Atlanta Ga, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NWA)
1959 - Charlie Huddy, Oshawa, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1959 - Lydia Lunch, US singer/poetess (Teenage Jesus, Jerks)
1960 - Tony Hadley, rock vocalist (Spandau Ballet-True)
1961 - John Cameroon, guitarist (Claw Boys Claw)
1961 - Kerry Junna-Saxby, Australian 10k walker (Olympics-15th-1992, 96)
1962 - Darnell Coles, baseball player

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1963 - Brian Harvey, baseball umpire (NL)
1963 - Jay B Cooper, Coral Gables Fla, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Jamaica)
1963 - Tim Balmer, Milwaukee Wis, Canadian Tour golfer (Bermuda Open-1990)
1965 - Mark Waugh, cricketer (twin of Steve mighty batsman for Australia)
1965 - Steve Waugh, cricketer (twin of Mark mighty batsman for Australia)
1967 - Mike Evans, WLAF DL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 - Mike Stanton, Houston TX, pitcher (NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox)
1967 - Randy Hilliard, NFL cornerback (Denver Broncos)
1969 - David Wheaton, Minneapolis Minn, tennis star (1987 US junior boys)
1969 - Kurt Abbott, Zanesville OH, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1970 - Andy McCollum, NFL center/guard (New Orleans Saints)
1970 - Eric Riley, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970 - Marty Mcinnis, Weymouth, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1970 - Mike Kelly, baseball player
1970 - Randy Fuller, NFL defensive back (Pitts Steelers)
1971 - Martin Suji, cricketer (Kenyan pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1971 - Steve Brooks, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy, London Monarchs)
1972 - Brad Ottis, tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Dwayne Joseph, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears)
1972 - Renee Heiken, Peoria IL, LPGA golfer (1994 Florida Women's Open)
1973 - Jayantha Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test left-arm spinner 1995)
1974 - Tammy Holmes, Berkeley Calif, female outfielder (Colo Silver Bullets)
1975 - Dontae' Jones, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1975 - Sally Newmarch, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 - Adrian Carlos Olivares, Mexico City, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1976 - Elly Hutton, Australian 100m sprinter (Olympics-96)
1976 - Josef Marha, Havl-brod Cze, NHL center (Colorado Avalanche)
1976 - Rachel White, Columbus Nebraska, Miss America-Nebraska (1997)
1978 - Nikki Cox, actress (Unhappily Ever After)
1994 - Prima Sellecchia Tesh, daughter of John Tesh & Connie Sellecca

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Suspension
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At a college with a shady reputation, the new dean responded
to investigations into the basketball team by suspending any
basketball player who wasn't maintaining a passing average.
Furious, the coach came storming into the dean's office,
followed by one of his star players.

"You can't keep him from playing!" the coach roared. "We won't
win this weekend without him!"

"I don't care," the dean said. "Things have gotten out of hand at
this college."

"What do you mean, out of hand?" the coach demanded.

"I'll show you what I mean," the dean said. He turned to the
basketball player and said, "Tell me,how much is six times
seven?"

The player thought for several seconds. Then he said, "Thirty-
one?"

The dean turned to the coach and said, "I rest my case."

"Oh, come on now," the coach said. "Why are you making
such a big deal of it? After all, he only missed it by one."

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Time to hit the road for work, enjoy your day guys.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Time to hit the road for work, enjoy your day guys.

That's the plan.  You do the same, Chip.

[LSUFAN]

Time for a sheesh.

[LSUFAN]

Time to hit the road for work, enjoy your day guys.

That's the plan.  You do the same, Chip.

Your sleep pattern sure is going to be screwed up when you get home.