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Title: 3/7/2023
Post by: CigarBanter on March 07, 2023, 01:57:34 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: 3/7/2023
Post by: razgueado on March 07, 2023, 02:22:42 AM
G'night from Tucson, lads.

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Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 05:33:55 AM
Morning, twofers.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 05:34:19 AM
Joe:

Torano Hogshead Robusto - 20/39.99
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 05:35:31 AM
Sis:

Door #1 - Alec Bradley Black Market Robusto - 10/44.99

Door #2 - Ramon Bueso Olancho Muy Bueso - 10/49.99

Door #3 - Man O' War Valkyrie Churchill - 5/24.99
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 06:16:08 AM
Morning, twofers.
Good night, Raz.

Good morning, Dave.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 06:19:54 AM
In theory, we should get 14 pages today since we were so prolific yesterday. Or does two-fer mean we'll only get 3.5 pages today? I guess we'll see.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 06:24:35 AM
In theory, we should get 14 pages today since we were so prolific yesterday. Or does two-fer mean we'll only get 3.5 pages today? I guess we'll see.
If I was a betting man, I'd definitely lean more towards the latter. Or you could just let all the bots loose today and we might get 50!
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 06:29:43 AM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 06:30:30 AM
In theory, we should get 14 pages today since we were so prolific yesterday. Or does two-fer mean we'll only get 3.5 pages today? I guess we'll see.
If I was a betting man, I'd definitely lean more towards the latter. Or you could just let all the bots loose today and we might get 50!
I'd take the under too.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 06:38:25 AM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
We just got a whole heap of rain last night, now colder today. In fact, forecast doesn't show us getting out of the 30s until late next week. Sheesh.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 07:04:37 AM
Today's wordle is actually the wife's normal starting word, so she's feeling pretty good right now.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 07:19:27 AM
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Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 07:19:55 AM
Today's wordle is actually the wife's normal starting word, so she's feeling pretty good right now.
Interesting.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 07:29:44 AM
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Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 09:09:00 AM
Page 2 post so Dave shows up
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 09:17:43 AM
Today's wordle is actually the wife's normal starting word, so she's feeling pretty good right now.
Interesting.
Sorry, was commuting and there was some family drama this morning that kept me from posting more. All is fine.

What makes your wife's first word interesting are the first two letters. But I guess it worked out for her. Curious to hear what she replaces it with now.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: razgueado on March 07, 2023, 09:20:16 AM
Morning, muchachos.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 09:40:23 AM
Morning, muchachos.
Morning, Page2Raz.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 09:40:43 AM
Today's wordle is actually the wife's normal starting word, so she's feeling pretty good right now.
Interesting.
Sorry, was commuting and there was some family drama this morning that kept me from posting more. All is fine.

What makes your wife's first word interesting are the first two letters. But I guess it worked out for her. Curious to hear what she replaces it with now.
Good question, I'll ask her and let you know what she changes it to, if anything.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 09:44:35 AM
Morning, muchachos.
How long was the drive to Tucson? Have you already visited with Uncle Andy?
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 09:49:54 AM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
We just got a whole heap of rain last night, now colder today. In fact, forecast doesn't show us getting out of the 30s until late next week. Sheesh.
RealFeel is gonna be in the single digits overnight and into the morning. Sheesh.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 09:56:26 AM
In theory, we should get 14 pages today since we were so prolific yesterday. Or does two-fer mean we'll only get 3.5 pages today? I guess we'll see.
You go with that Mr. Positive.
Yesterday WAS quite a start to the banter week.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 09:57:53 AM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
Going up to 80 here today.   ;D 
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 09:59:19 AM
Page 2 post so Dave shows up
Well, I was kinda hoping for page 3 like yesterday.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:06:29 AM
Today is Tuesday, March 7, the 66th day of 2023.
There are 299 days left in the year.



Today’s highlight in history:

On March 7, 1965, a march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

On this date:

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell received a U.S. patent for his telephone.

In 1911, President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.

In 1916, Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) had its beginnings in Munich, Germany, as an airplane engine manufacturer.

In 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.

In 1936, Adolf Hitler ordered his troops to march into the Rhineland, thereby breaking the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact.

In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge.

In 1975, the U.S. Senate revised its filibuster rule, allowing 60 senators to limit debate in most cases, instead of the previously required two-thirds of senators present.

In 1994, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a parody that pokes fun at an original work can be considered “fair use.” (The ruling concerned a parody of the Roy Orbison song “Oh, Pretty Woman” by the rap group 2 Live Crew.)

In 1999, movie director Stanley Kubrick, whose films included “Dr. Strangelove,” “A Clockwork Orange” and “2001: A Space Odyssey,” died in Hertfordshire, England, at age 70, having just finished editing “Eyes Wide Shut.”

In 2005, President George W. Bush nominated John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, an appointment that ran into Democratic opposition, prompting Bush to make a recess appointment.

In 2016, Peyton Manning announced his retirement after 18 seasons in the National Football League.

In 2020, health officials in Florida said two people who had tested positive for the new coronavirus had died; the deaths were the first on the East Coast attributed to the outbreak.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:08:45 AM
Ten years ago: The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously for tough new sanctions to punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test; a furious Pyongyang threatened a nuclear strike against the United States. The Senate confirmed John Brennan to be CIA director, 63-34, after the Obama administration bowed to demands from Republicans blocking the nomination and stated explicitly there were limits to the president’s power to use drones against U.S. terror suspects on American soil. Sybil Christopher, 83, the wife Richard Burton left in 1963 to marry Elizabeth Taylor, and who became a theater producer and nightclub founder, died in New York.


Five years ago: The White House said Mexico, Canada and other countries could be spared from President Donald Trump’s planned steel and aluminum tariffs under national security “carve-outs.” For the second time in less than a week, a storm rolled into the Northeast with as much as two feet of wet, heavy snow that grounded flights, closed schools and knocked out power.


One year ago: The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine deepened as Russian forces intensified their shelling and food, water, heat and medicine grew increasingly scarce in what the country condemned as a medieval-style siege by Moscow to batter it into submission. The Supreme Court says it would not take up the sexual assault case against comedian Bill Cosby, leaving in place a decision by Pennsylvania’s highest court to throw out his conviction and set him free from prison.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:09:23 AM
So if the mark of the devil is 666,
Then what is 66666 ?
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 10:16:59 AM
So if the mark of the devil is 666,
Then what is 66666 ?
Something that would probably cause me to post again right away. Lol
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:23:24 AM
Today’s birthdays:

International Motorsports Hall of Famer Janet Guthrie is 85.
Actor Daniel J. Travanti is 83.
Entertainment executive Michael Eisner is 81.
Rock musician Chris White (The Zombies) is 80.
Rock singer Peter Wolf is 77.
Rock musician Matthew Fisher (Procol Harum) is 77.
Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Lynn Swann is 71.
R&B singer-musician Ernie Isley (The Isley Brothers) is 71.
Rock musician Kenny Aronoff (BoDeans, John Mellencamp) is 70.
Actor Bryan Cranston is 67.
Actor Donna Murphy is 64.
Actor Nick Searcy is 64.
Golfer Tom Lehman is 64.
International Tennis Hall of Famer Ivan Lendl is 63.
Actor Mary Beth Evans is 62.
Singer-actor Taylor Dayne is 61.
Actor Bill Brochtrup is 60.
Author E.L. James is 60.
Author Bret Easton Ellis is 59.
Opera singer Denyce Graves is 59.
Comedian Wanda Sykes is 59.
Actor Jonathan Del Arco is 57.
Rock musician Randy Guss (Toad the Wet Sprocket) is 56.
Actor Rachel Weisz is 53.
Actor Peter Sarsgaard is 52.
Actor Jay Duplass is 50.
Classical singer Sebastien Izambard (Il Divo) is 50.
Rock singer Hugo Ferreira (Tantric) is 49.
Actor Jenna Fischer is 49.
Actor Tobias Menzies is 49.
Actor Sarayu Blue is 48.
Actor Audrey Marie Anderson is 48.
Actor TJ Thyne is 48.
Bluegrass singer-musician Frank Solivan is 46.
Actor Laura Prepon is 43.
Actor Bel Powley is 31.
Poet and activist Amanda Gorman is 25.
Actor Giselle Eisenberg (TV: “Life in Pieces”) is 16.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:23:46 AM
So if the mark of the devil is 666,
Then what is 66666 ?
Something that would probably cause me to post again right away. Lol
Of course!
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:24:13 AM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:25:12 AM
And now that we're on page 3, demonic or not, some page 3 ladies
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:25:46 AM
And
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 10:44:17 AM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
12
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 10:46:41 AM
Best I can do for coinky dinks today is Jonathan Del Arco and Donna Murphy both being on Star Trek: TNG, and Bryan Cranston directing Jenna Fischer on an episode of The Office. A twofer coinky dink for Tuesday.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 11:00:30 AM
Page 2 post so Dave shows up
Well, I was kinda hoping for page 3 like yesterday.
See? Now we've gone and set your expectations too high.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 11:03:13 AM
So if the mark of the devil is 666,
Then what is 66666 ?
Stammering devil?
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: razgueado on March 07, 2023, 11:54:45 AM
Morning, muchachos.
How long was the drive to Tucson? Have you already visited with Uncle Andy?
We flew in last night. Heading over to see Andy now.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: razgueado on March 07, 2023, 11:56:40 AM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
Fourteen.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 12:51:05 PM
Today's Over/Under is 10
Raz Over/Under is 12
Ten.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 01:46:22 PM
Still page 3?
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 01:55:56 PM
Still page 3?
Not enough page 3 ladies, I guess.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 01:59:00 PM
Some of the week's specials at Atlantic:

20% off boxes of AJF Enclave Habano and Broadleaf
55% off boxes of Herrera Esteli Norteno Piramide Fino (5x50)
15% off boxes of 601 Blue
50% off boxes of Espinosa Especial Maduro
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 02:01:12 PM
Still page 3?
Not enough page 3 ladies, I guess.
Man, you guys get spoiled easily. 
I could always give each lady a separate post, but I'm somewhat at the mercy of the birthdays given.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 02:09:05 PM
Still page 3?
Not enough page 3 ladies, I guess.
Man, you guys get spoiled easily. 
I could always give each lady a separate post, but I'm somewhat at the mercy of the birthdays given.
We're not going to audit your list.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 02:18:01 PM
Still page 3?
Not enough page 3 ladies, I guess.
Man, you guys get spoiled easily. 
I could always give each lady a separate post, but I'm somewhat at the mercy of the birthdays given.
We're spoiled, says the guy who wanted to arrive on page 24 this morning. :D
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 02:18:54 PM
At least we got to page 4, somewhat respectable. Hazzuh!
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: bluecollar on March 07, 2023, 04:16:28 PM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
We just got a whole heap of rain last night, now colder today. In fact, forecast doesn't show us getting out of the 30s until late next week. Sheesh.
You all have been pretty lucky with Winter. I drew the short straw on that one.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: bluecollar on March 07, 2023, 04:21:57 PM
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Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 04:28:58 PM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
We just got a whole heap of rain last night, now colder today. In fact, forecast doesn't show us getting out of the 30s until late next week. Sheesh.
You all have been pretty lucky with Winter. I drew the short straw on that one.
No doubt, brother.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 06:10:24 PM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
We just got a whole heap of rain last night, now colder today. In fact, forecast doesn't show us getting out of the 30s until late next week. Sheesh.
You all have been pretty lucky with Winter. I drew the short straw on that one.
No doubt, brother.
Yeah, definitely no argument here.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: bluecollar on March 07, 2023, 06:32:45 PM
We got that overnight dusting of snow we were promised.
We just got a whole heap of rain last night, now colder today. In fact, forecast doesn't show us getting out of the 30s until late next week. Sheesh.
You all have been pretty lucky with Winter. I drew the short straw on that one.
No doubt, brother.
Yeah, definitely no argument here.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: bluecollar on March 07, 2023, 06:34:58 PM
Shredded steak with peppers and onions
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Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: razgueado on March 07, 2023, 06:37:11 PM
Spent a few hours with Uncle Andy. It was cool that he is lucid and could converse, but he's wasting away. He's been a 6'3" giant of a man for most of my life. Now he's down to 115 pounds, frail, and he looks ten years older than his 82 years.

Still has his sense of humor, though.

It's coming for all of us.

Bittersweet day.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 07:02:03 PM
Shredded steak with peppers and onions
....and a Bull(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230307/e040290d0939bc7b82a1444aa9360df6.jpg)
Taco Tuesday here and that's no bull.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: A Friend of Charlie on March 07, 2023, 07:03:54 PM
Spent a few hours with Uncle Andy. It was cool that he is lucid and could converse, but he's wasting away. He's been a 6'3" giant of a man for most of my life. Now he's down to 115 pounds, frail, and he looks ten years older than his 82 years.

Still has his sense of humor, though.

It's coming for all of us.

Bittersweet day.
The lucidity thing is key. My mom passed last year after battling Alzheimer's for more than a decade. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: LuvTooGolf on March 07, 2023, 09:10:34 PM
Class 34

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Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:30:59 PM
Still page 3?
Not enough page 3 ladies, I guess.
Man, you guys get spoiled easily. 
I could always give each lady a separate post, but I'm somewhat at the mercy of the birthdays given.
We're spoiled, says the guy who wanted to arrive on page 24 this morning. :D
I think we need to pick up the pace.
Title: Re: 3/7/2023
Post by: Travellin Dave on March 07, 2023, 10:36:20 PM
Spent a few hours with Uncle Andy. It was cool that he is lucid and could converse, but he's wasting away. He's been a 6'3" giant of a man for most of my life. Now he's down to 115 pounds, frail, and he looks ten years older than his 82 years.

Still has his sense of humor, though.

It's coming for all of us.

Bittersweet day.
The lucidity thing is key. My mom passed last year after battling Alzheimer's for more than a decade. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Exactly.  before my Dad passed,  he was encouraging us to drink up, the day before he handed out Christmas cards and gifts.  He let us all know how content he was and how he loved us.  very satisfying.