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[CigarBanter]

Happy St. Patty's Day! Join in and perhaps learn something about cigars along the way.  Be warned, post on this site and you will catch hell from members and trolls alike.  Therefore, don't proceed if you have thin skin.  If you can accept all that, light a cigar, pour an Irish whiskey and welcome aboard!

[A Friend of Charlie]

Still on my conference call. Not an auspicious start to the new day.

[A Friend of Charlie]

Still on my conference call. Not an auspicious start to the new day.

Woohoo! Done. Good night, gentlemen. See yuz in the a.m.

[bluecollar]

Good night Tony.
I'll be on the banger next door.
Friggenpipetalk.com 

[bluecollar]

Just kidding... PM'ing refrigeration

[Travellin Dave]

Good night Tony, good morning Rick.

[Travellin Dave]

On This Date
By The Associated Press
1521   Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
1802   Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.
1836   The Republic of Texas approved a constitution.
1850   "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published.
1926   Rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass.
1935   Adolf Hitler scrapped the Treaty of Versailles.
1968   U.S. troops gunned down hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War.
1985   Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut.
2003   Vice President Dick Cheney predicted on NBC's "Meet the Press" that American troops would be "greeted as liberators" by the Iraqi people.
2003   Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home in Gaza.
2005   A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci.
2008   Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces; the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland.

[Travellin Dave]

Birthdays


Roger Brooke Taney 1777 - Fifth Chief Justice of the United States

Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler 1834 - Engineer, industrialist, invented the high-speed petrol engine

Jim Bridger (James Felix Bridger) 1881 - Mountain man, trapper, guide

Paul Eliot Green 1894 - Playwright

Bobby Jones (Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr.) 1902 - Golfer

Marquis Childs 1903 - Journalist

John Pastore 1907 - Lawyer, politician

Mercedes McCambridge 1918 - Actress

Nat "King" Cole (Nathaniel Adams Coles) 1919 - Singer, musician

Paul Horn 1930 - Jazz flautist

Dick Curless 1932 - Singer, known as the "Baron of Country Music"

Adam Wade 1937 - Singer, drummer, actor

Rudolf Nureyev 1938 - Ballet dancer

Paul Kantner 1941 - Musician (Jefferson Airplane/Starship)

Jim Weatherly 1943 - Singer, songwriter

Patrick McCauley (Them) 1944

John Sebastian 1944 - Singer, songwriter (Lovin' Spoonful)

Harold Brown 1946 - Musician (War)

Patrick Duffy 1949 - Actor (TV: "Dallas")

Kurt Russell 1951 - Actor

Scott Gorham 1951 - Guitar player (Thin Lizzy)

Susie Allanson 1952 - Singer

Lesley-Anne Down 1954 - Actress

Gary Sinise 1955 - Actor ("C.S.I: NY")

Paul Overstreet 1955 - Country singer
 
Mike Lindup 1959 - Musician (Level 42)

Vicki Lewis 1960 - Actress

Casey Sirmaszko 1961 - Actor

Claire Grogan (Altered Images) 1962

Rob Stich 1962 - Writer, director

Rob Lowe 1964 - Actor

Van Connor 1967 - Musician (Screaming Trees)

Billy Corgan 1967 - Musician (Smashing Pumpkins)

Mathew St. Patrick 1968 - Actor ("Six Feet Under")

Yanic Truesdale 1969 - Actor ("Gilmore Girls")

Bill Mueller 1971 - Baseball player

Mia Hamm 1972 - Soccer player

Melissa Auf der Maur 1972 - Musician (Hole, Smashing Pumpkins)

Caroline Corr 1973 - Musician (The Corrs)

Marisa Coughlan 1974 - Actress

Stephen Gately 1976 - Singer (Boyzone)

Swifty 1977 - Rapper (D12)

Bobby Ryan 1987 - Hockey player

Katie Ledecky 1997 - Swimmer

[Travellin Dave]

Darn, they don't seem to have "On this Day" info flipped to actually be this day, this early.

[Travellin Dave]

Got my Illusione 88 candela ready for the evening.  Don't know that they have any Guinness at the bar however.

[Travellin Dave]

To the office I go...back in a bit. (to all those listening!)

[Travellin Dave]

Aaaaaand I'm back!  Miss me?

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning, Frenchie.

[Travellin Dave]

Texas                   15.5ppb-600ppb           183
Pennsylvania   15.5ppb-1,273ppb   157
New York           15.5ppb-2,300ppb   129
California           15.8ppb-15,000ppb   114

Looks like Texas leads the country in instances of high lead content in drinking water....hmmm

[Travellin Dave]

Bonjour David.
Comment allez-vous aujourd'hui?