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Title: 4/2/2024
Post by: CigarBanter on April 02, 2024, 12:02:24 AM
Happy Tuesday! 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!
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 06:28:06 AM
Happy two-fer, y'all!
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 06:29:26 AM
Morning, twofers. Heading to Niagara today, and unfortunately, the forecast hasn't changed. Better make sure we've got some umbrellas!
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 06:31:52 AM
JoeCigar:

Joe’s Juicy Dozen - 12 / $47.50
includes:
2 - Macanudo Inspirado Orange Robusto Extra (5.5" x 50)
2 - CAO Gold Churchill (7.0" x 48)
2 - Rocky Patel Decade Cigars Robusto (5.0" x 50)
2 - Gurkha 125th Anniversary Rothchild (6.0" x 54)
2 - Alec Bradley Prensado Gran Toro (6.0" x 54)
2 - Cohiba Connecticut Robusto (5.5" x 50)
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 06:32:42 AM
Morning, twofers. Heading to Niagara today, and unfortunately, the forecast hasn't changed. Better make sure we've got some umbrellas!
Raining here too. Have a safe trip and some sun too!
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 06:42:51 AM
Morning, twofers. Heading to Niagara today, and unfortunately, the forecast hasn't changed. Better make sure we've got some umbrellas!
Raining here too. Have a safe trip and some sun too!
Fingers crossed!
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 06:46:08 AM
Connections
Puzzle #296
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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 06:49:55 AM
Cigar.com:

Door #1 - Partagas Legend Toro Leyenda (6.2"x54) - 10 / $39.99
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 06:51:11 AM
Strands #30
“Rolling in the aisles”
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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 06:51:38 AM
Cigar.com:

Door #2 - Diesel 'The Dagger' Collection - 20 / $74.99
includes:
5 x Diesel Wicked Torpedo (6.2"x56)
5 x Diesel 10th Anniversary d.654T (6.0"x54)
5 x Diesel Double Perfecto (6.0"x60)
1 x Diesel Hair of the Dog Classic Unholy Cocktail (5.0"x56)
1 x Diesel Unholy Cocktail (5.0"x56)
1 x Diesel Uncut Unholy Cocktail (5.0"x56)
1 x Diesel Unlimited Maduro Unholy Cocktail (5.0"x56)
1 x Diesel Unlimited Unholy Cocktail (5.0"x56)
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 06:52:29 AM
Cigar.com:

Door #3 - Punch Signature Robusto (5.0"x54) - 10 / $34.99
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 06:53:17 AM
Boy, you're ripping through those games today. I won't have a chance until lunchtime. Commute day, for me.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 07:01:16 AM
Boy, you're ripping through those games today. I won't have a chance until lunchtime. Commute day, for me.
Waiting for everyone to get up and get themselves ready to go certainly helps.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 08:08:02 AM
Boy, you're ripping through those games today. I won't have a chance until lunchtime. Commute day, for me.
Waiting for everyone to get up and get themselves ready to go certainly helps.
I was just about to cross the George Washington Bridge when my wife called and somehow locked her keys in the car while it was in front of our house. I turned around because her office keys were locked in there too. Looks like I'll be working from home today instead.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 08:50:08 AM
Wordle 1,018 4/6

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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 08:52:22 AM
Had to play the Wordle so that we could get to Page 2.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 09:57:02 AM
Morning, twofers. Heading to Niagara today, and unfortunately, the forecast hasn't changed. Better make sure we've got some umbrellas!
And a boat.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 09:59:00 AM
Had to play the Wordle so that we could get to Page 2.
Appreciate the effort!
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 10:01:32 AM
Today is Tuesday, April 2, the 93rd day of 2024.
There are 273 days left in the year.



Today’s Highlight in History:

On April 2, 2005, John Paul II, the Polish pope born Karol Józef Wojtyła, who became one of the most influential leaders of the 20th and early 21st centuries while working to build a moral foundation in the modern world and playing a crucial role in overthrowing communism, died in his Vatican apartment at age 84.


On this date:

In 1792, Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized establishment of the U.S. Mint.

In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, because of advancing Union forces.

In 1912, the just-completed RMS Titanic left Belfast to begin its sea trials eight days before the start of its ill-fated maiden voyage.

In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, saying, “The world must be made safe for democracy.” (Congress declared war four days later.)

In 1982, several thousand troops from Argentina seized the disputed Falkland Islands, located in the south Atlantic, from Britain. (Britain seized the islands back the following June.)

In 1986, four American passengers, including an 8-month-old girl, her mother and her grandmother, were killed when a terrorist bomb exploded aboard a TWA jetliner en route from Rome to Athens, Greece; the remaining 110 passengers survived.

In 1992, mob boss John Gotti was convicted in New York of murder and racketeering; he was later sentenced to life, and died in prison.

In 1995, after a work stoppage lasting nearly eight months, baseball owners accepted the players’ union offer to play without a contract.

In 2002, Israel seized control of Bethlehem; Palestinian gunmen forced their way into the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, where they began a 39-day standoff.

In 2003, during the Iraq War, American forces fought their way to within sight of the Baghdad skyline.

In 2007, in its first case on climate change, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, ruled 5-4 that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases were air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.

In 2012, a gunman killed seven people at Oikos University, a Christian school in Oakland, California. (The shooter, One Goh, died in 2019 while serving a life prison sentence.)

In 2013, North Korea said it would restart its long-shuttered plutonium reactor and increase production of nuclear weapons material in what outsiders saw as its latest attempt to extract U.S. concessions by raising fears of war.

In 2017, Coach Dawn Staley and South Carolina won their first women’s NCAA championship with a 67-55 victory over Mississippi State.

In 2018, anti-apartheid activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who’d been married for nearly 38 years to Nelson Mandela, died in a Johannesburg hospital at age 81.

In 2020, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide passed the 1 million mark, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

In 2021, rapper DMX was rushed from his home to a suburban New York hospital after going into cardiac arrest; he died a week later.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 10:01:49 AM
Had to play the Wordle so that we could get to Page 2.
Appreciate the effort!
Good morning, ClemsonDave.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 10:08:29 AM
Today’s Birthdays:

Actor Dame Penelope Keith is 84.
Actor Linda Hunt is 79.
Singer Emmylou Harris is 77.
Actor Sam Anderson is 77.
Social critic and author Camille Paglia is 77.
Actor Pamela Reed is 75.
Rock musician Dave Robinson (The Cars) is 75.
Country singer Buddy Jewell is 63.
Actor Christopher Meloni is 63.
Singer Keren Woodward (Bananarama) is 63.
Country singer Billy Dean is 62.
Actor Clark Gregg is 62.
Actor Jana Marie Hupp is 60.
Rock musician Greg Camp is 57.
Actor Roselyn Sanchez is 51.
Country singer Jill King is 49.
Actor Pedro Pascal is 49.
Actor Adam Rodriguez is 49.
Actor Michael Fassbender is 47.
Actor Jaime Ray Newman is 46.
Rock musician Jesse Carmichael (Maroon 5) is 45.
Actor Bethany Joy Lenz is 43.
Singer Lee Dewyze (TV: “American Idol”) is 38.
Country singer Chris Janson is 38.
Actor Drew Van Acker is 38.
Actor Briga Heelan (TV: “Great News”) is 37.
Actor Jesse Plemons is 36.
Singer Aaron Kelly (TV: “American Idol”) is 31.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 10:09:05 AM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 10:20:24 AM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
Two and a bunch of recognizable names.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 10:23:01 AM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
Two and a bunch of recognizable names.
Hmmmm....which two?
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 10:42:41 AM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
Two and a bunch of recognizable names.
Hmmmm....which two?
Linda Hunt and Pedro Pascal.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 10:48:19 AM
Love this time of year but can't stand all the racket the nearby landscapers make while I'm working. Same at the office, except I'm a few floors higher and I don't hear it as loudly unless the windows are opened.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 11:10:31 AM
Connections
Puzzle #296
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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 12:10:48 PM
Love this time of year but can't stand all the racket the nearby landscapers make while I'm working. Same at the office, except I'm a few floors higher and I don't hear it as loudly unless the windows are opened.
I am losing my shit with the non-stop droning of mowers and blowers. It's taking everything in me not to scream out the window, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!"
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 02:24:49 PM
Strands #30
“Rolling in the aisles”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡🔵
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 02:27:28 PM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
Two and a bunch of recognizable names.
Hmmmm....which two?
Linda Hunt and Pedro Pascal.
Not these?
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 02:38:19 PM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
Two and a bunch of recognizable names.
Hmmmm....which two?
Linda Hunt and Pedro Pascal.
Not these?
Recognized all three faces but couldn't put a name to them. I also knew their names when I was reading through the list but couldn't picture a face. Same with Emmylou Harris.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 02:42:21 PM
Strands #30
“Rolling in the aisles”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡🔵
Took a bit to get the hang of it.

Strands #30
“Rolling in the aisles”
🔵💡🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵🟡

Don't quite know what that score means...
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 02:43:15 PM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
Two and a bunch of recognizable names.
Hmmmm....which two?
Linda Hunt and Pedro Pascal.
Not these?
Recognized all three faces but couldn't put a name to them. I also knew their names when I was reading through the list but couldn't picture a face. Same with Emmylou Harris.
That was my sixth, but I didn't feel like adding a second post.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 02:44:16 PM
Page 3
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 02:45:06 PM
and...
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 02:46:06 PM
Finally...
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 02:48:36 PM
Strands #30
“Rolling in the aisles”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🔵🟡🔵
Took a bit to get the hang of it.

Strands #30
“Rolling in the aisles”
🔵💡🔵🔵
🔵🔵🔵🟡

Don't quite know what that score means...
I don't see a score. This one isn't even timed. The blue dots represent the regular words you found and the yellow is the spangram (made up word to signify the puzzle's theme and that it touches two opposite sides of the board.)
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 03:17:15 PM
Boy, you're ripping through those games today. I won't have a chance until lunchtime. Commute day, for me.
Waiting for everyone to get up and get themselves ready to go certainly helps.
I was just about to cross the George Washington Bridge when my wife called and somehow locked her keys in the car while it was in front of our house. I turned around because her office keys were locked in there too. Looks like I'll be working from home today instead.
D'oh!
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 03:19:43 PM
Guess I should have gotten purple...

Connections
Puzzle #296
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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on April 02, 2024, 03:19:55 PM
How goes it, OverABarrelDave?
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 03:21:28 PM
Today's Over/Under is 6
Raz Over/Under is 9
4
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 03:23:50 PM
How goes it, OverABarrelDave?
Not too bad. Stopped at Anchor Bar for lunch, birthplace of the Buffalo wing (if you believe their tale), then went to the aquarium. Just got to the hotel and chilling for a few before trekking down to the falls.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: LuvTooGolf on April 02, 2024, 03:24:06 PM
Wordle 1,018 3/6*

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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: razgueado on April 02, 2024, 03:28:19 PM
Afternoon, muchachos.
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: razgueado on April 02, 2024, 03:29:11 PM
Was a bit trickier than it looked.

Connections
Puzzle #296
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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: razgueado on April 02, 2024, 03:29:36 PM
Wordle 1,018 3/6

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Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: razgueado on April 02, 2024, 03:30:15 PM
Strands #30
“Rolling in the aisles”
🔵🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵
Title: Re: 4/2/2024
Post by: Travellin Dave on April 02, 2024, 11:34:02 PM
Wrapping up the dayl