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[CigarBanter]

Happy Friday! Any 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!

[South Carolina Redfish]

Morning Gents, Happy 5th Saturday, Monday or Friday as you prefer.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Gran Habano Turded Out at the Sister, 404'd Out at CI and Priced Out on a Mash at Famous.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Gran Habano Turded Out at the Sister, 404'd Out at CI and Priced Out on a Mash at Famous.

I never even checked today.

Good morning, SCDave.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Sam Adams releases $200 beer that's illegal in 12 state

It can be tough to find the perfect holiday gift for the beer snob in your life, but Samuel Adams is making it a little easier this year.

The brewery announced in late October the release of its 2017 Utopias line. Sam Adams releases a batch every two years, according to Fortune.com, and the most recent creation is a doozy.

It has a whopping 28% ABV (that's alcohol by volume), making it illegal in 12 states – but not in Connecticut! It also carries a $199 price tag, but comes in a fancy bottle and is meant to be savored, not chugged.

http://www.chron.com/living/article/Sam-Adams-releases-beer-that-s-illegal-in-12-12326397.php?ipid=hpctp

[South Carolina Redfish]

Gran Habano Turded Out at the Sister, 404'd Out at CI and Priced Out on a Mash at Famous.

I never even checked today.

Good morning, SCDave.

Morning Mayor, wtf are you doing up so early? 

I woke up at 3:30 and could not go back to sleep.

[South Carolina Redfish]

SHEESH!

Guess the Mayor rolled over and farted then went back to sleep.

[Travellin Dave]

You two have all hours covered today...

[Travellin Dave]

Morning CarolinaDave.

[Travellin Dave]

Today is Friday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2017.

Today’s Highlight in History:

On Nov. 3, 1900, the first major U.S. automobile show opened at New York’s Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America.

On this date:

In 1839, the first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.

In 1903, Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.

In 1911, the Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant. (The company was acquired by General Motors in 1918.)

In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a landslide election victory over Republican challenger Alfred “Alf” Landon.

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite, into orbit; on board was a dog named Laika (LY’-kah), who was sacrificed in the experiment.

In 1960, the Meredith Willson musical “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” opened on Broadway with Tammy Grimes in the title role.

In 1961, Burmese diplomat U Thant (oo thahnt) was appointed acting U.N. Secretary-General following the death of Dag Hammarskjold (dahg HAWM’-ahr-shoold). President John F. Kennedy established the U.S. Agency for International Development.

In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeated Republican Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right.

In 1970, Salvador Allende (ah-YEN’-day) was inaugurated as president of Chile.

In 1979, five Communist Workers Party members were killed in a clash with heavily armed Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis during an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.

In 1986, the Iran-Contra affair came to light as Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, first broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran.

In 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush. In Illinois, Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

[Travellin Dave]

Ten years ago: Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency in Pakistan. United Auto Workers agreed to a tentative contract with Ford Motor Co. Two astronauts conducted a successful spacewalk to save a ripped solar wing on the international space station.

Five years ago: The lights came back on in lower Manhattan to the relief of residents who’d been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Superstorm Sandy, but there was deepening resentment in the city’s outer boroughs and suburbs over a continued lack of power and maddening gas shortages. New York’s newly relocated NBA team, the former New Jersey Nets, hosted the first regular-season game by a major sports team in Brooklyn since the Dodgers left in 1957; the Brooklyn Nets beat the Toronto Raptors 107-100.

One year ago: Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine delivered a speech entirely in Spanish as he addressed a small crowd in a largely Hispanic area of Phoenix as part of Hillary Clinton’s push into traditionally Republican Arizona. China’s plans for a permanent space station remained firmly on track with the successful launch of its new heavy-lift Long March 5 rocket.

[FloridaDean]

Good morning Daves and Tony. I am off to my doctor for a check up at 8am and the lady is off too Eastpoint with her daughter. Stone Crab festival tomorrow. I have a weekend alone.

[Travellin Dave]

1900 Adolf Dassler, German founder of sportswear company Adidas, born in Herzogenaurach, Germany (d. 1978)
1901 André Malraux [Berger], French novelist and art historian (La Condition Humaine), born in Paris, France (d. 1976)
1901 Leopold III [Filip von Saksen-Coburg], King of the Belgians (from 1934, abdicated 1951) (d. 1983)
1903 Walker Evans, American photographer (Fortune Magazine)
1904 Gideon Fagan, composer
1904 Janis Kalnins, composer
1905 Lois Mailou Jones, US painter (Peasants on Parade)
1905 William Donald Campbell, diarist/ornithologist
1907 James Geoffrey Cutcliffe Hepburn, tap-dancer/socialist
1907 Joe Turner, US jazz pianist
1908 Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American   NFL fullback (Chicago Bears), born in Rainy River, Ontario (d. 1990)
1909 James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times)
1910 Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
1911 Vladimir Ussachevsky, Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
1912 Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89)
1914 Hallgrimur Helgason, composer
1918 Bob Feller, Van Meter, Iowa, American baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indian, 3 no-hitters)
1918 Russell B Long, (Sen-D-LA, 1948-86)
1918 Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
1918 Dean Riesner, film and television screenwriter (d. 2002)
1919 Bert Freed, American actor (Rufe-Shane), born in NYC, New York
1919 Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
1920 Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
1921 Charles Bronson, American actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen), born in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)
1922 Earl of Lonsdale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1923 Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)
1925 Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur)
1926 Valdas Adamkus, President of the Republic of Lithuania
1927 Zbigniew Cybulski, Polish actor (Ashes and Diamonds), born in Kniaze, Stanislawowskie, Poland (d. 1967)
1927 Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (McCain Foods Limited), born in Florenceville, New Brunswick
1928 Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
1930 Lois Smith, actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben), born in Topeka, Kansas
1930 Philip M Crane, (Rep-R-IL, 1969- )
1930 William H Dana, pilot (X-15)
1930 D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
1930 Brian Robinson, British cyclist
1931 Monica Vitti, [Ceciarelli], actress (Tigers in Lipstick), born in Rome, Italy
1931 Joan Kenmore, American actress (The Wizard of Oz), born in Los Angeles, California
1931 Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
1932 Thomas J Manton, (Rep-D-NY, 1985- )
1933 Aneta Corsaut, Jutchinson Ks, actress (Helen Crump-Andy Griffith)
1933 Jeremy Brett, Berkswell England, actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Freddie-My Fair Lady)
1933 Louis W Sullivan, US Sec of Health & Human Services (1989- )
1933 Michael Dukakis, Governor of Massachusetts (1975-79 and 1983-91) and 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, born in Brookline, Massachusetts
1933 John Barry, English composer
1933 Amartya Sen, Indian economist and Nobel Prize laureate (welfare economics and social choice theory), born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India
1934 Derek Richardson, cricketer (played one innings for England 1957)
1934 Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician (CP, CD)
1934 Ruma Guha Thakurta, Singer, Actress, Dancer, Founder of Calcutta Youth Choir
1936 Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player (Wimbledon-1964, 65, US Open-61), born in Blackbutt, Queensland
1937 Lynn Woolsey, (Rep-D-California)
1937 Paula Wayne, Hobart Oklahoma, vocalist (Everything's Great)
1938 Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director (Festival, Bix, Impiegati)
1938 Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
1938 Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
1939 Terrence McNally, playwright (Bad Habits), born in St Petersburg, Florida
1940 Dieter Acker, composer
1941 Brian Poole, Essex England, vocalist (Brian Poole & The Tremeloes)
1943 Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (Pentangle), born in Glasgow (d. 2011)
1945 Ken Holtzman, American baseball pitcher and manager
1945 Gerd Müller, German footballer
1946 Nick Simper, rocker (Deep Purple)
1946 Tom Savini, American actor
1947 Mazie Hirono, American politician
1948 Lulu, singer/actress (To Sir With Love), born in Glasgow, Scotland
1948 Tom Shales, TV critic (Washington Post)
1948 Helmut Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 Larry Holmes, American heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85), born in Cuthbert, Georgia
1949 Michael Evans, American actor (All in the Family), born in Salisbury, North Carolina
1949 Roswitha Krause, USSR, 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic silver 1968)
1949 Anna Wintour, English-American editor
1949 Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
1950 Joe Queenan, American writer
1950 Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
1950 James Rothman, American Biochemist and Nobel Laureate (2013) for work on vesicle trafficking, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts
1951 Azmat Rana, cricketer (one Test for Pakistan against Australia 1980)
1951 Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist, New York Daily News
1952 Felix R de Rooy, Curacaos poet/sculptor
1952 Roseanne Barr, American comedienne and TV star (Roseanne), born in Salt Lake City, Utah
1952 Jim Cummings, American voice actor
1952 David Ho, Taiwanese-American pioneering HIV/AIDS researcher, born in Taichung, Taiwan
1953 Kate Capshaw [Nail], American actress (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom), born in Fort Worth, Texas
1953 Dennis Miller, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1953 Kathy Kinney, American actress (Drew Carey Show), born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
1953 Helios Creed, American musician (Chrome)
1953 Larry Herndon, baseball player
1954 Adam Ant, [Stuart Goddard], English punk rocker (If I Strip For You), born in London, England
1954 Godzilla, Japanese monster (Godzilla)
1954 Kevin P Chilton, Lt Col USAF/Astronaut (STS 49, 59, 76), born in Los Angeles, California
1955 Phil Simms, NFL quarterback (NY Giants, Super Bowl 1986)
1956 Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
1956 Gary Ross, American film director
1956 Bob Welch, American MLB pitcher (Oakland), born in Seal Beach, CA, (d. 2014)
1957 Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2), born in Stockholm, Sweden
1958 Andrew Mapple, US water skier
1958 Sue Daniels, Adelaide Australia, golfer (1983 Victorian Amateur Champ)
1959 Timothy Patrick Murphy, actor (Dallas, Glitter), born in Hartford, Connecticut
1959 Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
1960 James Prime, British rock keyboardist (Deacon Blue), born in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland
1960 Marcel "Baaf" Stavenuiter, Dutch drummer (Bob Color)
1960 Sharon Monplaisir, American fencer-epee (Olympics-96), born in NYC, New York
1960 [Charles] Karch Kiraly, Jackson, Michigan, American volleyball player (Oly-3 g-84, 88, 96)
1961 David AC viscount Linley, son of English princess Margaret/mystic
1961 Kari Michaelsen, American actress (Katie-Gimme a Break), born in NYC, New York
1962 Kimberly Evenson, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (September, 1984)
1962 Kym Hampton, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
1962 Marilyn, rocker (You Don't Love Me)
1962 Jacqui Smith UK Home Secretary
1963 Howard Ballard, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1963 Stephen Corkin, judoka (Olympics-96), born in Auckland, New Zealand
1963 Ian Wright, English footballer
1963 Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
1964 Brian Young, cricketer (NZ Test opening batsman)
1965 John Feskens, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1965 Maty Monforth, TV host (Mike & Maty)
1965 Michael Paul Springer, PGA golfer (1994 Greater Milwaukee), born in San Francisco, California
1966 Todd Reynolds, pairs skaters (Olympics-1994), born in Norwalk, Connecticut
1966 Tracey Fuchs, Centereach NY, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-88, 96)
1966 Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
1967 Rob Cowie, NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Toronto, Ontario
1967 Steven Wilson, English musician and producer (Porcupine Tree), born in Kingston upon Thames
1968 Antonio Pettigrew, Macon Ga, 400m (Olympics-96)
1968 Debbie Rochon, Canadian actress (Tromeo & Juliet), born in Vancouver, British Columbia
1968 Lee Germon, cricketer (NZ keeper & captain 1995- )
1968 Paul Quantrill, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays), born in London, Ontario
1969 Jim Mckenzie, Gull Lake, NHL left wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 Leslie Shepherd, NFL wide receiver (Washington Redskins)
1969 Robert Miles, Swiss record producer, composer and musician in trance and ambient music.
1970 Doug Zmolek, NHL defenseman (LA Kings), born in Rochester, New York
1971 Bob Kronenberg, WLAF center (Rhein Fire)
1971 Colbie Bell, 100kg Greco Roman wrestler (Oly-96), born in Edmonton, Alberta
1971 Darrin Hancock, NBA guard/forward (Charlotte Hornets)
1971 Matthew Lawton, Gulfport MS, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1971 Tricia Carolyn Nosko, Miss USA-Indiana (1997)
1971 William Strong, NFL cornerback (New Orleans Saints)
1971 Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
1971 Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
1972 Chris Shelling, NFL cornerback (Cin Bengals)
1972 Verl Mitchell, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Derrick Alexander, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Nemone, athlete and broadcaster
1973 Kirk Jones (Sticky Fingaz), American musician
1973 Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1974 Tariq Abdul Wahad, NBA forward (Sacramento Kings)
1975 Darren Sharper, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1976 Guillermo Franco, Argentine-Mexican footballer
1977 Aria Giovanni, American model
1977 Jane Monheit, American jazz singer, born on Long Island, New York
1977 Greg Plitt, American fitness model and entrepreneur, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2015)
1979 Jamie Duffney, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1997)
1979 Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
1979 Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)
1979 Beau McDonald, Australian Rules Footballer
1981 Sten Pentus, Estonian racing car driver
1982 Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
1983 Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
1983 Julie Marie Berman, actress (General Hospital), born in Los Angeles, California
1984 Ryo Nishikido, Japanese Idol (member of NEWS (band) and Kanjani8)
1984 Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver
1987 Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
1987 Gemma Ward, Australian model
1987 Colin Kaepernick, American football player, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1987 Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist
1988 Angus McLaren, Australian Actor
1989 Paula DeAnda, American singer
1990 Ellyse Perry, Australian soccer player/cricket player
1995 Kendall Jenner, model and TV personality (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California

[Travellin Dave]

Good morning Daves and Tony. I am off to my doctor for a check up at 8am and the lady is off too Eastpoint with her daughter. Stone Crab festival tomorrow. I have a weekend alone.

Morning Dean.  You looking forward to that?

[South Carolina Redfish]

Morning TravellinDave and CrabbyDean

Finally went back to sleep for an hour anyway.