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Title: 2/19/2023
Post by: CigarBanter on February 19, 2023, 12:52:24 AM
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!
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:12:29 AM
Are you ready for some futsal!?
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:15:37 AM
JoeCigar:

Alec Bradley Tempus Quadrum (Box-Press) (5.5"x55) - 10 / $49.99
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:18:57 AM
Cigar.com:

Door #1 - H. Upmann Connecticut Toro (6.0"x50) - 10 / $49.99

Door #2 - Graycliff 1666 Toro (6.0"x50) - 10 / $34.99

Door #3 - Gurkha Legend Box-Pressed Toro (6.0"x50) - 10 / $39.99
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:22:35 AM
And what more can you ask for from your Sunday than AB and Gurkha offerings??

I'm sure your speechless but the question was rhetorical anyway.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:25:01 AM
I'm sure that OnTheMendDave is already on the road for his overnight hiking trip, so I'll have to be creative in my post whoring.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 08:34:20 AM
Morning, muchachos.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 08:34:36 AM
I struggled with this one. I could only come up with one word, but I thought it had been done before.

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Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 08:37:11 AM
I'm sure that OnTheMendDave is already on the road for his overnight hiking trip, so I'll have to be creative in my post whoring.
I'll try to pitch in.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 08:46:11 AM
Took the wife and #1 son out last night for their favorite "date." Dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory, shopping at thrift stores, used bookstores, and Guitar Center. That was our idea of a fun Saturday night when Christian was a kid and all the way through high school. Haven't done it in years.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:50:42 AM
Struggling with Wordle so that isn't helping...
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:51:26 AM
Took the wife and #1 son out last night for their favorite "date." Dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory, shopping at thrift stores, used bookstores, and Guitar Center. That was our idea of a fun Saturday night when Christian was a kid and all the way through high school. Haven't done it in years.
That does sound like fun.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:52:38 AM
After my son's game, we're heading into NYC. I believe we're hitting a museum and then going for a late lunch/early dinner.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 09:02:30 AM
I am trying to resist the urge to bid on this gun at auction. I tell myself, "Self, it would be redundant, because this Dan Wesson Model 15 is essentially the same gun as the S&W 686 you already have."

And Self looks me square in the eye and says, "And you have a blonde wife. But I'll bet if Kate Upton hit on you, you'd be drooling."

Myself is an asshole.

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Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 09:04:54 AM
After my son's game, we're heading into NYC. I believe we're hitting a museum and then going for a late lunch/early dinner.
I wouldn't by choice live near NYC. But I admit that I'm envious of your being able to just pop in there for museums and dinner.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 09:17:14 AM
Jimmy Carter is in hospice. So is my Uncle Andy. Makes me feel really old.

Planning to accompany my dad to Tucson on the 6th to say goodbye.

It has to be strange to have buried your parents, your older sister, and a wife, and now be faced with burying your only remaining sibling. It's something I won't ever really face, being the oldest of four children rather than like him the youngest of three.

Sorry. This is depressing. I'll change the subject.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 09:28:20 AM
They found the wreckage of the USS Albacore, one of the most fearsome submarines of WWII, off Hokkaido in Japan. RIP, heroes.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:31:52 AM
Are you ready for some futsal!?
Hell no.  Going to my first baseball game of the season ( third game in the season opening series)
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 09:31:57 AM
Jimmy Carter is in hospice. So is my Uncle Andy. Makes me feel really old.

Planning to accompany my dad to Tucson on the 6th to say goodbye.

It has to be strange to have buried your parents, your older sister, and a wife, and now be faced with burying your only remaining sibling. It's something I won't ever really face, being the oldest of four children rather than like him the youngest of three.

Sorry. This is depressing. I'll change the subject.
I heard that yesterday. I think he still has his wits about him too. How about Uncle Andy?
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 09:32:37 AM
Good morning, Bret and Dave.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:37:17 AM
Jimmy Carter is in hospice. So is my Uncle Andy. Makes me feel really old.

Planning to accompany my dad to Tucson on the 6th to say goodbye.

It has to be strange to have buried your parents, your older sister, and a wife, and now be faced with burying your only remaining sibling. It's something I won't ever really face, being the oldest of four children rather than like him the youngest of three.

Sorry. This is depressing. I'll change the subject.
But it's life.  Something most of us in this crew are facing as well.
I remember clearly at my Dad's funeral, one of their longtime friends came up to me and said, I'm the last one now.
I don't know if it's best to be the first one to go or the last....well, last must be hardest.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:38:26 AM
And what more can you ask for from your Sunday than AB and Gurkha offerings??

I'm sure your speechless but the question was rhetorical anyway.
That means it can only get better from here, right?
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:39:08 AM
And just think, a Sunday and already a solid page 2!
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 09:42:46 AM
Jimmy Carter is in hospice. So is my Uncle Andy. Makes me feel really old.

Planning to accompany my dad to Tucson on the 6th to say goodbye.

It has to be strange to have buried your parents, your older sister, and a wife, and now be faced with burying your only remaining sibling. It's something I won't ever really face, being the oldest of four children rather than like him the youngest of three.

Sorry. This is depressing. I'll change the subject.
I heard that yesterday. I think he still has his wits about him too. How about Uncle Andy?
Yeah, mostly.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 09:43:20 AM
Good morning, Bret and Dave.
Morning, T.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:45:27 AM

Today is Sunday, Feb. 19, the 50th day of 2023.
There are 315 days left in the year.



Today’s Highlight in History:

On Feb. 19, 2008, an ailing Fidel Castro resigned the Cuban presidency after nearly a half-century in power; his brother Raul was later named to succeed him.

On this date:

In 1473, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland.

In 1807, former Vice President Aaron Burr, accused of treason, was arrested in the Mississippi Territory, in present-day Alabama. (Burr was acquitted at trial.)

In 1878, Thomas Edison received a U.S. patent for “an improvement in phonograph or speaking machines.”

In 1942, during World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which paved the way for the relocation and internment of people of Japanese ancestry, including U.S.-born citizens.

In 1945, Operation Detachment began during World War II as some 30,000 U.S. Marines began landing on Iwo Jima, where they commenced a successful month-long battle to seize control of the island from Japanese forces.

In 1959, an agreement was signed by Britain, Turkey and Greece granting Cyprus its independence.

In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford, calling the issuing of the internment order for people of Japanese ancestry in 1942 “a sad day in American history,” signed a proclamation formally confirming its termination.

In 1985, the British soap opera “EastEnders” debuted on BBC Television.

In 1986, the U.S. Senate approved, 83-11, the Genocide Convention, an international treaty outlawing “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,” nearly 37 years after the pact was first submitted for ratification.

In 1997, Deng Xiaoping (dung shah-oh-ping), the last of China’s major Communist revolutionaries, died at age 92.

In 2003, an Iranian military plane carrying 275 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in southeastern Iran, killing all on board.

In 2017, three former elite U.S. gymnasts, including 2000 Olympian Jamie Dantzscher, appeared on CBS’ “60 Minutes” to say they were sexually abused by Dr. Larry Nassar, a volunteer team physician for USA Gymnastics. (Nassar would be sentenced to decades in prison after hundreds of girls and women said he sexually abused them under the guise of medical treatment.)

In 2019, President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to develop plans for a new Space Force within the Air Force, accepting less than the full-fledged department he had wanted.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:48:53 AM
Ten years ago: The United Nations said the number of U.S. drone strikes in Afghanistan had risen sharply in 2012 compared with 2011. A bail hearing began in Pretoria, South Africa, for double-amputee Olympian Oscar Pistorius, charged with killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day; the defense said Pistorius had mistaken Steenkamp for an intruder while prosecutors said he had deliberately opened fire on Steenkamp as she cowered behind a locked bathroom door.

Five years ago: Syrian government forces began a bombing campaign in the northeastern suburbs of Damascus, the last major stronghold for rebels in the area of the capital; the campaign left hundreds dead. President Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney in Utah’s Senate race, a sign that the two Republicans were burying the hatchet after a strained relationship. The U.S. women’s Olympic hockey team reached the title game, shutting out Finland 5-0 in the semifinals.

One year ago: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, facing a sharp spike in violence in and around territory held by Russia-backed rebels and increasingly dire warnings that Russia plans to invade, called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him and seek a resolution to the crisis. Vice President Kamala Harris says the world had arrived at “a decisive moment in history” and that the United States was committed to Ukraine’s sovereignty against the threat of what the West called an imminent threat of invasion by Russia. (Russia would invade Ukraine on Feb. 24.) China’s Sui Wenjing and Han Cong captured the Olympic gold medal that eluded them by a razor-thin margin four years earlier, edging Russian rivals Evgenia Tarasova and Vladimir Morozov to win the pairs figure skating competition at the Beijing Games.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 09:49:07 AM
Jimmy Carter is in hospice. So is my Uncle Andy. Makes me feel really old.

Planning to accompany my dad to Tucson on the 6th to say goodbye.

It has to be strange to have buried your parents, your older sister, and a wife, and now be faced with burying your only remaining sibling. It's something I won't ever really face, being the oldest of four children rather than like him the youngest of three.

Sorry. This is depressing. I'll change the subject.
But it's life.  Something most of us in this crew are facing as well.
I remember clearly at my Dad's funeral, one of their longtime friends came up to me and said, I'm the last one now.
I don't know if it's best to be the first one to go or the last....well, last must be hardest.
I think last would be way harder. The world keeps moving forward, but most of your points of reference are gone.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:51:35 AM
Today’s birthdays:

Singer Smokey Robinson is 83.
Singer and actor Carlin Glynn is 83.
Former Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer is 81.
Singer Lou Christie is 80.
Rock musician Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell) is 75.
Actor Stephen Nichols is 72.
Author Amy Tan is 71.
Actor Jeff Daniels is 68.
Rock singer-musician Dave Wakeling is 67.
Talk show host Lorianne Crook is 66.
Actor Ray Winstone is 66.
Actor Leslie David Baker is 65.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is 64.
Britain’s Prince Andrew is 63.
Tennis Hall of Famer Hana Mandlikova is 61.
Singer Seal is 60.
Actor Jessica Tuck is 60.
Rock musician Jon Fishman (Phish) is 58.
Actor Justine Bateman is 57.
 Actor Benicio Del Toro is 56.
Actor Bellamy Young is 53.
Rock musician Daniel Adair is 48.
Pop singer-actor Haylie Duff is 38.
Actor Arielle Kebbel is 38.
Christian rock musician Seth Morrison (Skillet) is 35.
Actor Luke Pasqualino is 33.
Actor Victoria Justice is 30.
Actor David Mazouz (TV: “Gotham”) is 22.
Actor Millie Bobby Brown is 19.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:52:01 AM
Over/Under for today is 8
Raz Over/Under is 13
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 09:57:00 AM
And a little sumpin' for page 3
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 10:11:29 AM
Over/Under for today is 8
Raz Over/Under is 13
Ten
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 10:12:44 AM
And a little sumpin' for page 3
I recognize neither, but both nice to look at.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: razgueado on February 19, 2023, 10:16:46 AM
And a little sumpin' for page 3
Course, Lorianne Crook was easy on the eyes, too. In her prime, as Don Lemon would say.

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Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: bluecollar on February 19, 2023, 10:34:34 AM
Jimmy Carter is in hospice. So is my Uncle Andy. Makes me feel really old.

Planning to accompany my dad to Tucson on the 6th to say goodbye.

It has to be strange to have buried your parents, your older sister, and a wife, and now be faced with burying your only remaining sibling. It's something I won't ever really face, being the oldest of four children rather than like him the youngest of three.

Sorry. This is depressing. I'll change the subject.
But it's life.  Something most of us in this crew are facing as well.
I remember clearly at my Dad's funeral, one of their longtime friends came up to me and said, I'm the last one now.
I don't know if it's best to be the first one to go or the last....well, last must be hardest.
I think last would be way harder. The world keeps moving forward, but most of your points of reference are gone.
My Mother comes from a large family 3 sisters have passed and she still doesn't talk about losing her brother who died in Vietnam. I still have both in laws and parents plus my older brother
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: bluecollar on February 19, 2023, 10:51:15 AM
Morning stick before some errands (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230219/bc019942dd2a4442913ac42a6a7d7d84.jpg)
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 11:04:31 AM
Morning stick before some errands (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230219/bc019942dd2a4442913ac42a6a7d7d84.jpg)
Look what I got Rick.  You talked me into giving them another try.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: bluecollar on February 19, 2023, 11:41:47 AM
Morning stick before some errands (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230219/bc019942dd2a4442913ac42a6a7d7d84.jpg)
Look what I got Rick.  You talked me into giving them another try.
Nice, I really enjoyed the couple I got from my 2nd shift engineer.
The emperor is an AJ stick too huh?
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 08:19:25 PM
Morning stick before some errands (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230219/bc019942dd2a4442913ac42a6a7d7d84.jpg)
Look what I got Rick.  You talked me into giving them another try.
Nice, I really enjoyed the couple I got from my 2nd shift engineer.
The emperor is an AJ stick too huh?
The Empress of Cuba?, yes.
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 08:21:16 PM
Baseball won 19-1, Softball beat Ohio State by ten run rule, 10-0 so I get to celebrate!
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:24:34 PM
Baseball won 19-1, Softball beat Ohio State by ten run rule, 10-0 so I get to celebrate!
Congrats to Clemson!
Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on February 19, 2023, 08:37:09 PM
Struggling with Wordle so that isn't helping...
This nearly killed me today.

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Title: Re: 2/19/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on February 19, 2023, 10:51:37 PM
Struggling with Wordle so that isn't helping...
This nearly killed me today.

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Pulled that one out nicely.