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Cigar Banter => Daily Cigar Deals Discussion => Topic started by: CigarBanter on December 09, 2025, 01:14:54 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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Morning, twofers.
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Joe:
Door #1 - Montecristo White Label Rothschilde - 5/29.99
Door #2 - Macanudo Inspirado Green Robusto - 10/34.99
Door #3 - Ave Maria Argentum Robusto - 10/39.99
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Sis:
Door #1 - Oliva Serie 'V' Melanio Maduro Robusto - 5/32.50
Door #2 - 5 Vegas Big Five Toro - 10/39.99
Door #3 - Drew Estate Ultimate Traditional 20ct Mega Sampler - 20/109.99
4 - Undercrown 10 Toro (6.0"x52) '91' Rated
4 - Undercrown Shade Toro Especial (6.0"x50) '91' Rated
4 - Blackened M81 Toro (6.0"x52) '95' Rated
4 - Chateau Real Habano Toro (6.0"x50)
4 - Nica Rustica Adobe Toro (6.0"x52)
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Morning, twofers.
Good morning, DaveDave.
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Wordle 1,634 3/6
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Wordle 1,634 4/6*
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No extras
Strands #646
“On the court”
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Connections: Sports Edition
Puzzle #442
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Hit the wrong one on the first error and got myself confused. Realized my mistake eventually.
Connections
Puzzle #912
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Commute day for me. Might be the last one for the year.
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Hit the wrong one on the first error and got myself confused. Realized my mistake eventually.
Connections
Puzzle #912
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Fat-Fingered?
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Hit the wrong one on the first error and got myself confused. Realized my mistake eventually.
Connections
Puzzle #912
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Fat-Fingered?
No, just not thinking. I knew the category they were going for and was trying to decide between two options for the final guess but didn't realize one of the other ones I had already selected was wrong. So after the first error, I tried the other option I was looking at for the final guess. Then I said hold up a damn minute, let's start over here. Then I realized what I'd done. Whoops!
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Morning Tony and Dave.
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Still dreaming of Daves Tony, or have you moved on?
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Today is Tuesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2025
with 22 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.
On this date in history:
In 1907, the first Christmas Seals to raise money to fight tuberculosis went on sale in the post office in Wilmington, Del.
In 1955, two weeks of bloody student uprisings against President Fulgencio Batista appeared to follow the pattern of the student riots that deposed Cuban Dictator Gerardo Machado 22. Batista would remain in power four more years before losing power to Fidel Castro.
In 1962, Petrified Forest National Monument was established as a national park in Arizona.
In 1974, White House aide John Ehrlichman's Watergate trial began in which he testified that U.S. President Richard Nixon was responsible for a coverup.
In 1987, the First Palestinian Intifada against Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. Palestinians protested and rioted after an Israeli Defense Forces truck struck a civilian vehicle, killing four Palestinians.
In 1990, Lech Walesa won Poland's first direct presidential vote.
In 1992, British Prime Minister John Major announced the formal separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
In 1992, some 1,700 U.S. Marines landed in Somalia to secure the airfield, port and U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu and restore order to the conflict- and famine-stricken country.
In 2002, United Airlines, which said it was losing $22 million a day, filed for bankruptcy.
In 2008, federal agents arrested Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges in a scheme involving the sale of Illinois' open Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama.
In 2014, a U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report said the CIA's interrogation of terror suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks was more brutal than it told the White House or public. The so-called "CIA torture report" called CIA tactics "deeply flawed."
In 2017, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared that the country's forces completely liberated the nation from the Islamic State militant group.
In 2019, the volcano on New Zealand's Whakaari Island -- also known as White Island -- erupted, killing 22 people and injuring another 25.
In 2023, LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels earned the most prestigious individual honor in college football, the 89th Heisman Trophy. A few months later, the Washington Commanders drafted him with the No. 2 overall pick.
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Today's Birthdays
Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include:
writer John Milton in 1608;
actor Margaret Hamilton in 1902;
screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in 1905;
Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill in 1912;
actor Kirk Douglas in 1916;
comedian Redd Foxx in 1922;
actor Dick Van Patten in 1928;
actor John Cassavetes in 1929;
actor Buck Henry in 1930;
actor Judi Dench in 1934 (age 91);
Football Hall of Fame member Deacon Jones in 1938;
actor Beau Bridges in 1941 (age 84);
Football Hall of Fame member Dick Butkus in 1942;
actor Michael Nouri in 1945 (age 80);
World Golf Hall of Fame member Tom Kite in 1949 (age 76);
actor Michael Dorn in 1952 (age 73);
actor John Malkovich in 1953 (age 72);
musician/TV personality Donny Osmond in 1957 (age 68);
comedian/actor Mario Cantone in 1959 (age 66);
actor Joe Lando in 1961 (age 64);
actor Felicity Huffman in 1962 (age 63);
actor Toby Huss in 1966 (age 59);
musician Brian Bell (Weezer) in 1968 (age 57);
entrepreneur/TV personality Lori Greiner in 1969 (age 56);
musician Jakob Dylan (Wallflowers) in 1969 (age 56);
musician Tre Cool (Green Day) in 1972 (age 53);
musician Imogen Heap in 1977 (age 48);
actor Jesse Metcalfe in 1978 (age 47);
actor Simon Helberg in 1980 (age 45);
actor Sungwon Cho in 1990 (age 35);
U.S. Olympic gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney in 1995 (age 30);
U.S. Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner in 1996 (age 29);
actor Jaren Lewison in 2000 (age 25);
musician Shin Yuna (Itzy) in 2003 (age 22);
actor Nico Parker in 2004 (age 21).
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Today's Over/Under is 17
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Morning Tony and Dave.
Morning, FreudDave.
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Today's Over/Under is 17
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Morning, muchachos.
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Today's Birthdays
Those born on this date are under the sign of Sagittarius. They include:
writer John Milton in 1608;
actor Margaret Hamilton in 1902;
screenwriter Dalton Trumbo in 1905;
Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill in 1912;
actor Kirk Douglas in 1916;
comedian Redd Foxx in 1922;
actor Dick Van Patten in 1928;
actor John Cassavetes in 1929;
actor Buck Henry in 1930;
actor Judi Dench in 1934 (age 91);
Football Hall of Fame member Deacon Jones in 1938;
actor Beau Bridges in 1941 (age 84);
Football Hall of Fame member Dick Butkus in 1942;
actor Michael Nouri in 1945 (age 80);
World Golf Hall of Fame member Tom Kite in 1949 (age 76);
actor Michael Dorn in 1952 (age 73);
actor John Malkovich in 1953 (age 72);
musician/TV personality Donny Osmond in 1957 (age 68);
comedian/actor Mario Cantone in 1959 (age 66);
actor Joe Lando in 1961 (age 64);
actor Felicity Huffman in 1962 (age 63);
actor Toby Huss in 1966 (age 59);
musician Brian Bell (Weezer) in 1968 (age 57);
entrepreneur/TV personality Lori Greiner in 1969 (age 56);
musician Jakob Dylan (Wallflowers) in 1969 (age 56);
musician Tre Cool (Green Day) in 1972 (age 53);
musician Imogen Heap in 1977 (age 48);
actor Jesse Metcalfe in 1978 (age 47);
actor Simon Helberg in 1980 (age 45);
actor Sungwon Cho in 1990 (age 35);
U.S. Olympic gold medal gymnast McKayla Maroney in 1995 (age 30);
U.S. Olympic gymnast MyKayla Skinner in 1996 (age 29);
actor Jaren Lewison in 2000 (age 25);
musician Shin Yuna (Itzy) in 2003 (age 22);
actor Nico Parker in 2004 (age 21).
Eighteen.
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We've had 2.27" of rain in the past 24 hours, and we're under flood watch until the 12th. There's plenty more rain coming. My house sits far enough above the White River that it would take a truly apocalyptic flood for the river to be a threat, especially since I'm about a mile downstream from a flood control dam.
The greater threat for me is that behind my back fence is a slope up about 50 feet that could, in theory, get so saturated with water that it could slide into my backyard, or that my backyard could get so saturated by rain that one of the tall firs that guard my back fence could pull out of the ground and fall over. It's all pretty remote, but there will be impacts in the surrounding area.
It's the lowlands that are really at the most risk. My house is at about 750 feet of elevation on a plateau that overlooks two valleys - the Puyallup River valley which empties into Commencement Bay in Tacoma and the Green River valley that empties into the Duwamish and thence into Elliot Bay in Seattle. Both those river networks are sourced off the glaciers on Mt Rainier, so those valleys have been shaped by volcanic activity from Mt Rainer over millennia.
But geographically, we're kind of a perfect disaster. The atmospheric river is coming in off the Pacific Ocean, but it runs into the Cascade mountains (I live in the foothills of the Cascade Range), parks, and dumps its moisture. So the system is dumping all over the lowlands, but also dumping a lot of water that is running back down into the lowlands from the foothills. Obviously, plenty of engineering has been done over decades to handle the rainfall, but it can never be enough to completely offset what nature can do.
So y'all might end up seeing something about us on the news.
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We've had 2.27" of rain in the past 24 hours, and we're under flood watch until the 12th. There's plenty more rain coming. My house sits far enough above the White River that it would take a truly apocalyptic flood for the river to be a threat, especially since I'm about a mile downstream from a flood control dam.
The greater threat for me is that behind my back fence is a slope up about 50 feet that could, in theory, get so saturated with water that it could slide into my backyard, or that my backyard could get so saturated by rain that one of the tall firs that guard my back fence could pull out of the ground and fall over. It's all pretty remote, but there will be impacts in the surrounding area.
It's the lowlands that are really at the most risk. My house is at about 750 feet of elevation on a plateau that overlooks two valleys - the Puyallup River valley which empties into Commencement Bay in Tacoma and the Green River valley that empties into the Duwamish and thence into Elliot Bay in Seattle. Both those river networks are sourced off the glaciers on Mt Rainier, so those valleys have been shaped by volcanic activity from Mt Rainer over millennia.
But geographically, we're kind of a perfect disaster. The atmospheric river is coming in off the Pacific Ocean, but it runs into the Cascade mountains (I live in the foothills of the Cascade Range), parks, and dumps its moisture. So the system is dumping all over the lowlands, but also dumping a lot of water that is running back down into the lowlands from the foothills. Obviously, plenty of engineering has been done over decades to handle the rainfall, but it can never be enough to completely offset what nature can do.
So y'all might end up seeing something about us on the news.
Sounds like a real situation trying to form there. Thinking good thoughts for y'all.
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Still dreaming of Daves Tony, or have you moved on?
That dream is perpetual.
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I'm in meetings all day today.
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Still dreaming of Daves Tony, or have you moved on?
That dream is perpetual.
Naturally
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Singles day at the Page:
https://www.cigarpage.com/meet-the-local-singles-at-cp-k1-20251209tu4.html
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Another missed opportunity lull and Raz might have been washed away.
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Fighting Cock
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