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[CigarBanter]

HAPPY FRIDAY!!!  Hopefully you'll get to start the weekend early.  Otherwise, perhaps some cigar deals will help ya get through to tomorrow.  Share what you know in this forum and perhaps learn something about cigars along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!

[razgueado]

Permission to come aboard, Cap'n?

[A Friend of Charlie]

Wow, this place is hoppin' all of a sudden.

Time for the flip.  Get off yer ass... ;-)

Sheesh.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Permission to come aboard, Cap'n?

It's all yours.  I've gotta get some shut-eye.

[A Friend of Charlie]

And a jam to boot.  Enjoy!

[razgueado]

Permission to come aboard, Cap'n?

It's all yours.  I've gotta get some shut-eye.

G'night, Mr. Mayor.

[LSUFAN]

Goodnight and good morning guys.

[LSUFAN]

4 Ramon Bueso Genesis The Project Robusto
         10/29.99
 3 Padron #3000 Maduro
          4/24.00
 2 Perdomo Lot 23 Robusto
         10/34.50
 1 Drew Estate My Uzi Weighs a Ton
          5/25.00

[LSUFAN]

On this day in history ..
0858 - Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
1061 - Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
1185 - Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
1288 - Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1311 - Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1364 - Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
1524 - Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1547 - Battle of M�hlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave
1558 - Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Fran‡ois
1570 - Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1596 - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1704 - "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1762 - Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty
1792 - "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800 - Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1801 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1823 - EugŠne Scribes "Le Menteur V‚ridique," premieres in Paris
1833 - Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain
1833 - Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
1854 - Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
1863 - Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1865 - Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1867 - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1871 - Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1872 - Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1877 - Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1877 - Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1880 - Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1883 - 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1884 - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1888 - Eastman Kodak forms
1891 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1894 - French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1894 - Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1895 - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1897 - 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House
1898 - Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1898 - US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1899 - Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid

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1900 - Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1901 - 1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
1905 - 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28)
1905 - Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
1908 - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1909 - Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1910 - German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1915 - German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1915 - Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1915 - Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
1916 - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1917 - Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
1920 - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920 - Polish troops attack Ukraine
1921 - 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1923 - Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1923 - General harbor strike begins in NYC
1925 - 88øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1928 - Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929 - 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 - Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932 - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1933 - 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1938 - Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1941 - British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 - Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 - 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944 - RAF bombs Munich
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945 - Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1945 - Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)
1946 - 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1949 - 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win
1950 - "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
1950 - Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 - Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt
1951 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
1953 - Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

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1954 - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954 - Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1954 - WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends
1955 - Gaullists lose elections in France
1955 - KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1957 - Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1958 - Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1959 - Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1959 - WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
1960 - Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1960 - Record 4 grand slams hit today
1961 - JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 - Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1962 - 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 - MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1962 - Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
1963 - 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2
1963 - English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 perfs
1965 - Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1965 - NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1966 - Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
1966 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1967 - 21st NBA Championship: Phila 76ers beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 2
1968 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
1968 - Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1969 - Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians

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1969 - Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead
1969 - US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1970 - China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1970 - Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1970 - Senegal adopts constitution
1971 - "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 perf
1971 - Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1974 - Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1974 - NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
1975 - Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament
1978 - Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
1979 - Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1980 - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1981 - Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981 - IBM-PC computer introduced
1981 - San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
1981 - US ends grain embargo against USSR
1982 - 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1982 - Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies
1982 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1983 - "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
1983 - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1983 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 - Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1985 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1987 - Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
1988 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989 - 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1989 - Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1990 - Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin
1990 - Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies

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1990 - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
1990 - West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1991 - 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1992 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances
1992 - David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
1992 - George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1992 - Vinson Pike fined œ1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1993 - 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
1993 - ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
1993 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
1994 - "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
1994 - "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1994 - Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
1994 - Armando Calder¢n Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
1994 - Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1994 - David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
1994 - NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
1995 - Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
1995 - Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1995 - Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1996 - "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf
1996 - 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain
1996 - Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11
1997 - "Steel Peer," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances

[LSUFAN]

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1538 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1576 - Sab Vicente de Pa£l
1594 - Benedikt Lechler, composer
1620 - John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
1660 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver
1670 - Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
1721 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised
1742 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1743 - Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
1750 - Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
1766 - Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
1769 - Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
1773 - Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1791 - Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1796 - K L Immermann, writer
1804 - Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1807 - Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 - Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire
1814 - Vincente F L¢pez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)
1815 - Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1815 - James Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1822 - Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1828 - Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829 - George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1836 - Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
1837 - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1845 - Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1849 - Joseph S Galli‚ni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1851 - Eduardo Acevedo D¡az, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1856 - Henri POBJ P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
1864 - George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20)
1867 - Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1873 - Theodor K”rner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
1874 - John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
1874 - Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1875 - Jeno Huszka, composer
1877 - Charles Cuvillier, composer
1883 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
1886 - Kurt Pinthus, writer
1886 - R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
1889 - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
1892 - Jack Hulbert, Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
1893 - Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
1895 - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1897 - Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797)
1897 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer

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1903 - Jos‚ A Primo de Rivera y Sa‚nz de Heredia, founder (Spanish Falange)
1903 - Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
1903 - Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium)
1904 - Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens), dies
1904 - Willem De Kooning, Rotterdam Netherland, artist (North Atlantic Light)
1905 - Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1907 - Vaclav Trojan, composer
1908 - Heddy Bouber, [Hermanus G Blom], actor (Bluejackets)
1909 - Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)
1909 - Irven Spence, animator
1911 - Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian (Disorderly Orderly)
1911 - Karl O Schiller, German economist (Minister of Economics)
1911 - Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976)
1911 - Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer
1914 - Bernard Caulfield, judge
1914 - Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
1914 - Ruth White, Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
1916 - Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)
1917 - Len Creed, bookmaker
1921 - Laci Boldemann, composer
1922 - J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory)
1924 - Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show)
1924 - Yehoshua Lakner, composer
1927 - Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer
1927 - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator
1928 - Gustav Krivinka, composer
1929 - Ferit Tuzun, composer
1930 - Conn Findlay, Stockton Calif, coxswain (Oly-2 gold/bronze-56, 64, 76)
1931 - Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art)
1932 - Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje)
1933 - Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
1934 - John Barbour, Toronto, TV host (Real People)
1934 - Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce)
1935 - Louis Keith, Chicago, physician (expert on multiple-births)
1936 - Jill Ireland, London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino)
1940 - David Larter, cricketer (two-metre tall England pace bowler)
1941 - John Williams, Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Acad Award)