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Cigar Banter => Daily Cigar Deals Discussion => Topic started by: CigarBanter on December 25, 2022, 12:00:19 AM
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CigarBanter.com wishes you and your loved ones the merriest of Christmases. When you're done opening your gifts, and you're stuffed from eating all those cookies and eggnog, we can talk about the new cigars Santa brought you.
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Merry Christmas to everyone and all your family
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#2 Son and I got home late and hungry. Fortunately there was some ground veal in the freezer, so we whipped up some Christmas Bolognese.
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Wordle 554 4/6
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Merry Christmas! Night, Lads.
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Merry Christmas to all the Cigar Smokers and their Families!
All is well with our family and retirement life is still wonderful even though it is all too cold here for my old bones! 21° this morning.
Every time I look at the prices for so called “deals” on cigars it makes me soooo happy that I bought a large supply when the getting was good.
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good morning and Merry Christmas everyone. I hope everyone has a safe and Blessed day.
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Good morning and Merry Christmas to all. What a great gift seeing posts from Short stack, RedfishDave, and Dean. Nice to see a photo of Bret's pasta too. May you all have a wonderful day!
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JoeCigar:
Rocky Patel Decade Robusto (5.0"x50) - 10 / $49.99
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Cigar.com:
Door #1 - Rocky Patel Vintage '90 Churchill (7.0"x48) - 10 / $49.99
Door #2 - Zino Platinum Scepter Series Grand Master (Robusto) (5.5"x52) - 10 / $49.99
Door #3 - La Gloria Cubana Wavell (Robusto) (5.0"x50) - 10 / $34.99
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Merry Christmas, BOTLs! Nice to see some missing faces around this morning.
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No Xmas ABs, what's the world coming to?
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Wordle 554 3/6*
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Wordle 554 3/6*
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Wordle 554 3/6
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No Xmas ABs, what's the world coming to?
But you've got two Rockys to choose from. Good morning, LTG.
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Good morning and Merry Christmas to all. What a great gift seeing posts from Short stack, RedfishDave, and Dean. Nice to see a photo of Bret's pasta too. May you all have a wonderful day!
For sure, great to have them stop by! Merry Christmas.
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JoeCigar:
Rocky Patel Decade Robusto (5.0"x50) - 10 / $49.99
Looks like coal in the stocking today.
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Today is Sunday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2022.
There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Dec. 25, 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, New Jersey, during the American Revolutionary War.
On this date:
In A.D. 336, the first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome.
In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned King of England.
In 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” was publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
In 1926, Hirohito became emperor of Japan, succeeding his father, Emperor Yoshihito.
In 1946, comedian W.C. Fields died in Pasadena, California, at age 66.
In 1977, comedian Sir Charles Chaplin died in Switzerland at age 88.
In 1989, ousted Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu (chow-SHES’-koo) and his wife, Elena, were executed following a popular uprising. Former baseball manager Billy Martin, 61, died in a traffic accident near Binghamton, New York.
In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.
In 1999, space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts finished their repair job on the Hubble Space Telescope and released it back into orbit.
In 2003, 16 people were killed by mudslides that swept over campgrounds in California’s San Bernardino Valley. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (pur-VEHZ’ moo-SHAH’-ruhv) survived a second assassination bid in 11 days, but 17 other people were killed.
In 2009, passengers aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 foiled an attempt to blow up the plane as it was landing in Detroit by seizing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO’-mahr fah-ROOK’ ahb-DOOL’-moo-TAH’-lahb), who tried to set off explosives in his underwear. (Abdulmutallab later pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison.)
In 2020, a recreational vehicle parked in the deserted streets of downtown Nashville exploded early Christmas morning, damaging dozens of buildings, causing widespread communications outages and grounding holiday travel at the city’s airport; investigators later determined that the bomber, a 63-year-old Nashville-area man, was killed in the explosion.
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And Washington is still crossing the Delaware!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/george-washingtons-crossing-delaware-river-holiday-tradition-fans/story?id=95444472
(not far from where I used to live.)
...but still don't understand why they don't just use the bridge...
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Ten years ago: In his Christmas message to the world, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to the slaughter in Syria and for more meaningful negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, while encouraging more religious freedom under China’s new leaders. Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Sr., 75, died at a federal prison in North Carolina.
Five years ago: In his traditional Christmas message, Pope Francis called for a two-state solution in the Middle East, and prayed that confrontation could be overcome on the Korean Peninsula. Harsh winter weather gripped much of the country on Christmas, with bitter cold in the Midwest and a blizzard moving into New England. Russian election officials formally barred opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running for president, prompting him to call for a boycott of the March, 2018 vote.
One year ago: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the world’s largest and most powerful space telescope, rocketed away from French Guiana in South America on a quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life. Airlines canceled hundreds of flights as staffing issues tied to COVID-19 disrupted holiday celebrations during one of the busiest travel times of the year. Pope Francis used his Christmas Day address to pray for an end to the coronavirus pandemic.
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Morning, muchachos.
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Merry Christmas to all the Cigar Smokers and their Families!
All is well with our family and retirement life is still wonderful even though it is all too cold here for my old bones! 21° this morning.
Every time I look at the prices for so called “deals” on cigars it makes me soooo happy that I bought a large supply when the getting was good.
Merry Christmas, y'old bastage.
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Today’s Birthdays:
Author Anne Roiphe is 87.
Actor Hanna Schygulla (SHEE’-goo-lah) is 79.
R&B singer John Edwards (The Spinners) is 78.
Actor Gary Sandy is 77.
Singer Jimmy Buffett is 76.
Pro and College Football Hall-of-Famer Larry Csonka is 76.
Country singer Barbara Mandrell is 74.
Actor Sissy Spacek is 73.
Blues singer/guitarist Joe Louis Walker is 73.
Former White House adviser Karl Rove is 72.
Actor CCH Pounder is 70.
Singer Annie Lennox is 68.
Reggae singer-musician Robin Campbell (UB40) is 68.
Country singer Steve Wariner is 68.
Singer Shane MacGowan (The Pogues, The Popes) is 65.
Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson is 64.
The former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, is 64.
Actor Klea Scott is 54.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is 51.
Rock musician Noel Hogan (The Cranberries) is 51.
Singer Dido is 51.
Rock singer Mac Powell (Third Day) is 50.
R&B singer Ryan Shaw is 42.
Country singer Alecia Elliott is 40.
Pop singers Jess and Lisa Origliasso (The Veronicas) are 38.
Actor Perdita Weeks is 37.
Rock singer-musician Lukas Nelson (Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real) is 34.
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Today's Over/Under is 8
Raz Over/Under is 12.
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Wonder if Rick was able to shovel and escape route?
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Today's Over/Under is 8
Raz Over/Under is 12.
Nine.
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My sons and I spent the last of Christmas Eve with my dad, smoking cigars and sampling teenaged Scotch. Usually, that lasts until 3 or 4 in the morning, but Dad and #1 son have to work this morning (church service) so we ended at a reasonable hour. Connor and I came home and made that Veal Bolognese for a late night snack. Some quality time after some quality time.
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My sons and I spent the last of Christmas Eve with my dad, smoking cigars and sampling teenaged Scotch. Usually, that lasts until 3 or 4 in the morning, but Dad and #1 son have to work this morning (church service) so we ended at a reasonable hour. Connor and I came home and made that Veal Bolognese for a late night snack. Some quality time after some quality time.
Doesn't get better than that!
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My sons and I spent the last of Christmas Eve with my dad, smoking cigars and sampling teenaged Scotch. Usually, that lasts until 3 or 4 in the morning, but Dad and #1 son have to work this morning (church service) so we ended at a reasonable hour. Connor and I came home and made that Veal Bolognese for a late night snack. Some quality time after some quality time.
That's awesome. Glad Christmas is treating you right. Three generations spending quality time together with cigars, whiskey, and food. Can't think of anything better.
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Today's Over/Under is 8
Raz Over/Under is 12.
Seven.
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Wonder if Rick was able to shovel and escape route?
No I'm still buried in. Merry Christmas everyone
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Wonder if Rick was able to shovel and escape route?
No I'm still buried in. Merry Christmas everyone
I'm still chipping away(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20221225/9ff5daae8687056e47f776867ffd6187.jpg)
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Wife ended up coming down with what sounds like what I had, with a terrible cough descending on her overnight. She stayed home to rest while we went to my parents' house. 3 out of the 4 of us were in masks, but we did what we could to be safe and celebrate. I hope everyone else had as fine a day as you could've hoped for.