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Cigar Banter => Daily Cigar Deals Discussion => Topic started by: CigarBanter on April 16, 2024, 01:23:55 AM
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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!
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Joe:
Victor Sinclair Overruns Robusto - 20/29.99
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Sis:
Door #1 - Montecristo Viejo Vitola R (Robusto) - 5/29.99
Door #2 - HC Series White Shade Grown Toro - 20/44.99
Door #3 - Alec Bradley Tempus Nicaragua Quadrum (Robusto) - 10/44.99
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Happy birthday, Barry. Rest in peace, my friend.
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Interesting, I don't remember letters ever crossing diagonally before.
Strands #44
“On the grid”
🔵🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵
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Connections
Puzzle #310
🟪🟪🟨🟪
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Happy birthday, Barry. Rest in peace, my friend.
Amen.
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Good morning, LTG.
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Good morning, LTG.
Howdy.
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Wordle 1,032 4/6
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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I wasn't able to finish my work yesterday so I'm a bit behind the eight-ball today. The due dates seem arbitrary but they are what they are. I'm not gonna freak out about it. I'll just have to say it will be a little delayed.
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Commute day for me...
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Commute day for me...
And what a doozy it was.
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Morning Tony and Dave.
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Interesting, I don't remember letters ever crossing diagonally before.
Strands #44
“On the grid”
🔵🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵
As if I could figure these out before.... :-\
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Morning Tony and Dave.
Good morning, ClemsonDave.
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Interesting, I don't remember letters ever crossing diagonally before.
Strands #44
“On the grid”
🔵🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵
As if I could figure these out before.... :-\
I keep forgetting to play. It's been a busy week and it's only Tuesday. :-[
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But it is page 2!
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Today is Tuesday, April 16, the 107th day of 2024.
There are 259 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 16, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
On this date:
In 1789, President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York.
In 1889, comedian and movie director Charles Chaplin was born in London.
In 1945, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the ship the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it’s estimated that up to 7,000 people died.
In 1947, the cargo ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate, blew up in the harbor in Texas City, Texas; a nearby ship, the High Flyer, which was carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the following day; the blasts and fires killed nearly 600 people.
In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon with astronauts John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Ken Mattingly on board.
In 1977, Alex Haley, author of the best-seller “Roots,” visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where, he believed, his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.
In 1996, Britain’s Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced they were in the process of divorcing.
In 2003, Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.
In 2007, in one of America’s worst school attacks, a college senior killed 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life.
In 2010, the U.S government accused Wall Street’s most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. had sold mortgage investments without telling buyers the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but did not admit wrongdoing.)
In 2012, a trial began in Oslo, Norway, for Anders Breivik (AHN’-durs BRAY’-vihk), charged with killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in July 2011. (Breivik was found guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder and given a 21-year prison sentence.)
In 2013, NFL player-turned-broadcaster Pat Summerall, died in Dallas at age 82.
In 2018, the New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement.
In 2020, the Trump administration gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country’s coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health hazards.
In 2021, Jon Ryan Schaffer, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and a heavy metal guitarist, became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
In 2022, Russian forces accelerated scattered attacks on Kyiv, western Ukraine and beyond, a sign that the entire country was still under assault despite Russia’s pivot toward mounting a new offensive in the east.
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Today’s Birthdays:
Singer Bobby Vinton is 89.
Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II is 84.
Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 77.
Former Massachusetts first lady Ann Romney is 75.
NFL coach Bill Belichick is 72.
Rock singer (Midnight Oil) and former politician Peter Garrett is 71.
Actor Ellen Barkin is 70.
Actor Michel Gill is 64.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 62.
Rock musician Jason Scheff (Chicago) is 62.
Singer Jimmy Osmond is 61.
Rock singer David Pirner (Soul Asylum) is 60.
Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence is 59.
Actor Jon Cryer is 59.
Actor Peter Billingsley is 53.
Actor Lukas Haas is 48.
Actor-singer Kelli O’Hara is 48.
Actor Claire Foy (TV: “The Crown”) is 40.
Figure skater Mirai Nagasu is 31.
Actor Sadie Sink is 22.
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Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
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Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
I got seven. Which is surprising since the list isn't that long. I'm not counting the Midnight Oil dude because I didn't know his name.
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Very tricky...
Connections
Puzzle #310
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🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟨
🟪🟪🟨🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Morning, muchachos.
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Connections
Puzzle #310
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟨🟨🟨🟨
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Two possibilities for the third guess, I guessed wrong.
Wordle 1,032 4/6
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Strands #44
“On the grid”
🔵🔵🟡🔵
🔵🔵🔵
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Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
Only ten.
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Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
7
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One extra word...
Strands #44
“On the grid”
🔵🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵
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And we just made it!
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Only 2 today.
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Chores done for the day.
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Chores done for the day.
I need to smoke something today before the weather goes back to cold, wet, and rainy.
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OK then...
Connections
Puzzle #310
🟪🟪🟪🟪
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟨🟨🟨🟨
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and...
Wordle 1,032 5/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Finally got one...
Strands #44
“On the grid”
🔵🔵🔵🔵
🟡🔵🔵
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Padilla Reserva
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Everyone's gearing up for hump day ?
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Padilla Reserva
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Haven't had a Padilla in a very long time.
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Padilla Reserva
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Haven't had a Padilla in a very long time.
Conscious choice?