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Cigar Banter => Daily Cigar Deals Discussion => Topic started by: CigarBanter on December 24, 2022, 12:01:44 AM
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What's up cigar enthusiasts?! Any cigar 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!
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I wish you a blessed Christmas Eve. Night, Lads.
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JoeCigar:
Oliva Serie 'V' Melanio Robusto (5.0"x52) - 10 / $59.99
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Cigar.com:
Door #1 - AVO Classic Robusto (5.0"x50) - 10 / $49.99
Door #2 - Drew Estate Tabak Especial Café con Leche (Belicoso) (5.5"x54) - 10 / $49.99
Door #3 - Oliva Serie 'G' Belicoso (5.0"x52) - 10 / $39.99
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The good news is we should be in the positive RealFeels by 6:pm. Ho ho ho!
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I wish you a blessed Christmas Eve. Night, Lads.
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I wish the same for you and yours, Bret.
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Morning, all. Happy Eve. All tests here came back negative, so we're in the clear. Xmas Eve festivities at the in-laws still canceled because one of her brothers is immunocompromised, so we're not going to risk being over there with him. Still waiting to hear what the plan is for tomorrow.
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The good news is we should be in the positive RealFeels by 6:pm. Ho ho ho!
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Up to 0 here right now, which is an improvement over yesterday.
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The good news is we should be in the positive RealFeels by 6:pm. Ho ho ho!
(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/749232c104334e85099a09502cddc661.jpg)
Up to 0 here right now, which is an improvement over yesterday.
8 degrees for Figment's walk this morning. Good thing I had my bomber hat!
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Midnight mass is at 9:00... ???
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Multiple choices for the weekend Christmas special.
https://www.cigarsinternational.com/shop/10-count-christmas-spectacular/2049925/
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Midnight mass is at 9:00... ???
It'll be midnight somewhere.
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Stock up on some rare holiday Viaje's
or at SBC, there is this nice sampler:
https://www.smallbatchcigar.com/viaje-christmas-katana-2022
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Stock up on your not really Cohiba's...
https://halfwheel.com/general-cigar-co-s-cohiba-trademark-canceled-in-the-u-s-company-to-appeal/417211/
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Today is Saturday, Dec. 24, the 358th day of 2022.
There are seven days left in the year. This is Christmas Eve.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 24, 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts, orbiting the moon, read passages from the Old Testament Book of Genesis during a Christmas Eve telecast.
On this date:
In 1814, the United States and Britain signed the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812 following ratification by both the British Parliament and the U.S. Senate.
In 1851, fire devastated the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., destroying about 35,000 volumes.
In 1865, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, that was the original version of the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1906, Canadian physicist Reginald A. Fessenden became the first person to transmit the human voice (his own) as well as music over radio, from Brant Rock, Massachusetts.
In 1913, 73 people, most of them children, died in a crush of panic after a false cry of “Fire!” during a Christmas party for striking miners and their families at the Italian Hall in Calumet, Michigan.
In 1914, during World War I, impromptu Christmas truces began to take hold along parts of the Western Front between British and German soldiers.
In 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces in Europe as part of Operation Overlord.
In 1951, Gian Carlo Menotti’s “Amahl and the Night Visitors,” the first opera written specifically for television, was broadcast by NBC-TV.
In 1990, actor Tom Cruise married his “Days of Thunder” co-star, Nicole Kidman, during a private ceremony at a Colorado ski resort (the marriage ended in 2001).
In 1992, President Bush pardoned former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and five others in the Iran-Contra scandal.
In 2013, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II granted a posthumous pardon to code-breaker Alan Turing, who was convicted of homosexual behavior in the 1950s.
In 2020, Bethlehem ushered in Christmas Eve with a stream of joyous marching bands and the triumphant arrival of the top Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, but few people were there to greet them as the pandemic and a strict lockdown dampened celebrations. Just a week before the deadline, Britain and the European Union struck a free-trade deal that would avert economic chaos on New Year’s and bring a measure of certainty for businesses after years of Brexit turmoil.
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Ten years ago: An Afghan policewoman walked into a high-security compound in Kabul and killed an American contractor, the first such shooting by a woman in a spate of insider attacks by Afghans against their foreign allies. An ex-con gunned down two firefighters in Webster, New York, after luring them to his suburban Rochester neighborhood by setting a car and a house ablaze, then took shots at police and committed suicide as seven homes burned down. Death claimed actors Charles Durning, 89, and Jack Klugman, 90.
Five years ago: Peru’s president announced that he had granted a medical pardon to jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori, 79, who had been serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses, corruption and the sanctioning of death squads. In Christmas eve remarks, Pope Francis likened the journey to Bethlehem by Mary and Joseph to the migrations of millions of people today who are forced to leave homelands for a better life, or just to survive.
One year ago: Around the world, the surging coronavirus dampened Christmas Eve festivities for a second year, with travel plans disrupted and churches canceling or scaling back services. Airlines canceled hundreds of flights as the omicron variant jumbled schedules and drew down staffing levels at some carriers during the busy holiday travel season. Drummers and bagpipers marched through Bethlehem to smaller than usual crowds after new Israeli travel restrictions aimed at slowing the highly contagious omicron variant kept international tourists away. Pope Francis celebrated Christmas Eve Mass before an estimated 2,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica, going ahead with the service despite the resurgence in COVID-19 cases that had prompted a new vaccine mandate for Vatican employees.
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Today’s Birthdays:
Dr. Anthony Fauci is 82.
Recording company executive Mike Curb is 78.
Actor Sharon Farrell is 76.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is 76.
Actor Grand L. Bush is 67.
Actor Clarence Gilyard is 67.
Actor Stephanie Hodge is 66.
The former president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai (HAH’-mihd KAHR’-zeye), is 65.
Rock musician Ian Burden (The Human League) is 65.
Actor Anil Kapoor (ah-NEEL’ kuh-POOR’) is 63.
Actor Eva Tamargo is 62.
Actor Wade Williams is 61.
Rock singer Mary Ramsey (10,000 Maniacs) is 59.
Actor Mark Valley is 58.
Actor Diedrich Bader is 56.
Actor Amaury Nolasco is 52.
Singer Ricky Martin is 51.
Author Stephenie Meyer is 49.
TV personality Ryan Seacrest (TV: “Live With Kelly & Ryan”) is 48.
Actor Michael Raymond-James is 45.
Actor Austin Stowell is 38.
Actor Sofia Black-D’Elia is 31.
Rock singer Louis Tomlinson (One Direction) is 31.
NFL wide receiver Davante Adams is 30.
Estonian tennis player Anett Kontaveit is 27.
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Today's Over/Under is 5
Raz Over/Under is 6
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I managed to get out of work yesterday. It was the scariest ride of my life. I should have just stayed but here I am and this is my view from my garage.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/1657c5d7b8a96df0fd8823d66fe45da4.jpg)
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Sheesh, thought I was going to have to ask Santa for page 2...
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I managed to get out of work yesterday. It was the scariest ride of my life. I should have just stayed but here I am and this is my view from my garage.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/1657c5d7b8a96df0fd8823d66fe45da4.jpg)
Glad you're home safe Rick. Merry Christmas.
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Today's Over/Under is 5
Raz Over/Under is 6
6
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I managed to get out of work yesterday. It was the scariest ride of my life. I should have just stayed but here I am and this is my view from my garage.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/1657c5d7b8a96df0fd8823d66fe45da4.jpg)
Sheesh! Glad you're safe, now hunker down.
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Work is trying to call me in. We are in the state of emergency here
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Work is trying to call me in. We are in the state of emergency here
That would be my response to them if I were you.
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Apparently, my in-laws lost power for a while, and now that it's come back on, their furnace has shit the bed.
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Apparently, my in-laws lost power for a while, and now that it's come back on, their furnace has shit the bed.
Oof. I hope they get that heat cranked on soon. Sorry to hear all the troubles my BotL and their families are having.
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Today's Over/Under is 5
Raz Over/Under is 6
Nailed it at 5!
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Work is trying to call me in. We are in the state of emergency here
If it's important enough, they can send out a ride for you.
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Apparently, my in-laws lost power for a while, and now that it's come back on, their furnace has shit the bed.
Oof. I hope they get that heat cranked on soon. Sorry to hear all the troubles my BotL and their families are having.
Sounds like most anyone in the area who could help them are busy for the next few days. Which is understandable, given the weather. Fingers crossed they can find someone. They do have a fireplace in the living room, so they won't be totally chilled to the bone.
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Morning, muchachos.
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I'm snowed in (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/f47e1165d992249a31ece2ca3bfa0f8c.jpg)
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Today's Over/Under is 5
Raz Over/Under is 6
Only five.
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I managed to get out of work yesterday. It was the scariest ride of my life. I should have just stayed but here I am and this is my view from my garage.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/1657c5d7b8a96df0fd8823d66fe45da4.jpg)
Holy ssshhhhh...snow.
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I'm snowed in (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/f47e1165d992249a31ece2ca3bfa0f8c.jpg)
Send your boss that pic next time he calls you.
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I'm snowed in (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221224/f47e1165d992249a31ece2ca3bfa0f8c.jpg)
Youll get no argument from me! Yikes!
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I don't want to brag, but it's up to 6 here now.
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In-laws are bringing over the food we're missing out on today and tomorrow morning. Which is good from an eating perspective, but not so much from a not wanting to shovel perspective.
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In-laws are bringing over the food we're missing out on today and tomorrow morning. Which is good from an eating perspective, but not so much from a not wanting to shovel perspective.
At least I got to put my new stylish bomber hat to good use.
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Completed my Paxlovid prescription today. Took another test... Still positive. Looks like I'll be spending Christmas in my room. It could be worse. Saturday Night Football starts in 45 minutes.
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Completed my Paxlovid prescription today. Took another test... Still positive. Looks like I'll be spending Christmas in my room. It could be worse. Saturday Night Football starts in 45 minutes.
That sucks, sorry to hear it, Tony.
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Completed my Paxlovid prescription today. Took another test... Still positive. Looks like I'll be spending Christmas in my room. It could be worse. Saturday Night Football starts in 45 minutes.
That sucks, sorry to hear it, Tony.
At least I get to watch what I want.
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Completed my Paxlovid prescription today. Took another test... Still positive. Looks like I'll be spending Christmas in my room. It could be worse. Saturday Night Football starts in 45 minutes.
That sucks, sorry to hear it, Tony.
At least I get to watch what I want.
This is true.
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In-laws got their furnace rigged for the time being and the heat is running. But the part they had to order to fix the problem won't arrive until Wednesday. So now it's a waiting game to see how long the fix lasts.
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In-laws got their furnace rigged for the time being and the heat is running. But the part they had to order to fix the problem won't arrive until Wednesday. So now it's a waiting game to see how long the fix lasts.
Glad to hear they were able to apply a bandaid.
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In-laws got their furnace rigged for the time being and the heat is running. But the part they had to order to fix the problem won't arrive until Wednesday. So now it's a waiting game to see how long the fix lasts.
Glad to hear they were able to apply a bandaid.
Indeed, sounds like it was getting pretty chilly over there. In fact, I think his best part of the day was bringing over the food and presents cause he got to sit in his car with the heat blasting and his seat being warmed.
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Man, the audio on this game is terrible. Most of the time, you can't hear the announcers.
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Man, the audio on this game is terrible. Most of the time, you can't hear the announcers.
Great last minute. I'll take the W.