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MonkeyZero

Mexican Mayonnaise Weiner Sandwich
What say you Weiners? Do you partake of the sacred leaf? (Not that leaf)
I have smoked cigars a few times in my life, and I really enjoyed them, but never took up the habit/hobby.
Well, I decided to build a humidor a couple months ago. It turned out better than I expected! (I will post pics here. It's gorgeous and non-traditional)
When it was done, I decided to fill it with cigars. As with anything that I do, heavy research was involved and now I have not only filled that humidor but purchased an electric humidor and now I have over 200 cigars in under 2 months. Cool.

I have smoked a bunch of different cigars and found these things to be true:
I prefer dark, full strength sticks.
I prefer Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro and Mexican San Andres Maduro wrappers but like some sumatra, brazilian and habano wrappers too.

My current favorite smokes are:
CAO Flathead 660V
Alec Bradley Prensado Toro
Oliva Master Blends 3 Robusto
 
Nicotine/tobacco doesn’t sit well with me. And the few times I’ve smoked a cigar, I’ve wound up puking/feeling like I was gonna puke.

Not a thing for me, which is weird because I generally have a pretty formidable constitution when it comes to ingesting random shit.
 
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Peen Simmons said:
Nicotine/tobacco doesn’t sit well with me. And the few times I’ve smoked a cigar, I’ve wound up puking/feeling like I was gonna puke.

Not a thing for me, which is weird because I generally have a pretty formidable constitution when it comes to ingesting random shit.
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You're not inhaling are you?
Edit: I am aware that you still get the nicotine.
 
I've stopped what little cigar smoking I used to do because of vocal cord issues. But when I did partake, I never found anything I liked better than cheapo Swisher Sweets, and I have several aficionado buddies who tried all sorts of quality cigars on me.

Feel free to laugh.
 
It's been like 20 years since I smoked a cigar. I used to do it on special occasions, like on new years eve, the good ones but not like super fancy stuff.
 
Cigars make the room spin for me. I don’t like that feeling. Marijuana does not give me the spins, yet cigars do. Not my thing.
 
I have a small humidor that I keep 4 or 5 cigars in. Probably 1 to 5 times a year I’ll enjoy one. I like these and only in the maduro leaf. I can’t stand the other.

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I haven't smoked a whole cigar. I've had a puff or two. The smell of my Grandfather smoking a pipe is a fond memory. More so for the scent of the sweet pipe tobacco than my Grandfather. He would bath once a week when visiting.
 
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bsman said:
Nope - tastes terrible and smells worse.
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No cigar needed for this, but I refereed my 1st AYSO 10U game on Saturday. Nobody else signed up for it. They gave me a cool coin to keep for the toss. I have assistant refereed four 10U games.

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Andrew Sak said:
No cigar needed for this, but I refereed my 1st AYSO 10U game on Saturday. Nobody else signed up for it. They gave me a cool coin to keep for the toss. I have assistant refereed four 10U games.

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Enjoy it! I haven't renewed my USSF license for the first time since 1993. I'm still reffing HS games but have pretty much aged out of the competitive club scene and decided it wasn't worth the hassle.
 
Andrew Sak said:
I haven't smoked a whole cigar. I've had a puff or two. The smell of my Grandfather smoking a pipe is a fond memory. More so for the scent of the sweet pipe tobacco than my Grandfather. He would bath once a week when visiting.
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My grandfather smoked cigars and a pipe. He kept his pipe tobacco in an old wooden wall telephone. Unfortunately, he died of emphysema, but lived 7 years beyond what the doctors expected. He put one of his O2 bottles in the back of his station wagon and ran a tube up to his nasal cannula up front.

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Tig said:
My grandfather smoked cigars and a pipe. He kept his pipe tobacco in an old wooden wall telephone. Unfortunately, he died of emphysema, but lived 7 years beyond what the doctors expected. He put one of his O2 bottles in the back of his station wagon and ran a tube up to his nasal cannula up front.

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My Grandfather on my Mom's side immigrated from Slovakia to Chicago in the Roaring Twenties. I think he smoked cigars as well as his pipe.
When he visited us in California, he ordered a shot of whiskey at the local liquor store. They laughed at him. Apparently, you could do this at the corner stores in Chi-town.

No, he wasn't in a concentration camp. This was his work photo.
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Tig said:
My grandfather smoked cigars and a pipe. He kept his pipe tobacco in an old wooden wall telephone. Unfortunately, he died of emphysema, but lived 7 years beyond what the doctors expected. He put one of his O2 bottles in the back of his station wagon and ran a tube up to his nasal cannula up front.

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My Grandpa on my mom's side smoked pipes and cigars all the time and lived to be 94. You just never know!
 
Andrew Sak said:
My Grandfather on my Mom's side immigrated from Slovakia to Chicago in the Roaring Twenties. I think he smoked cigars as well as his pipe.
When he visited us in California, he ordered a shot of whiskey at the local liquor store. They laughed at him. Apparently, you could do this at the corner stores in Chi-town.

No, he wasn't in a concentration camp. This was his work photo.
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Was he as mean as he looks in the photo? :wink:
 
bsman said:
Was he as mean as he looks in the photo? :wink:
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No. He was a sweet guy. Him and Grandma used to go at it though. I drove back with them from California To Chicago when I was a kid. They stopped in the middle of a freeway on-ramp to argue about the directions.
He horrified me by blowing a snot rocket in a hotel parking lot on said road trip. There was a science to what he did.

Here's the boat he came over on.
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