el.barbudo

I had surgery on both hands back in ‘94 and don’t think there was any noticeable ill-effects. I would think that the success rate for the surgery has only improved in the last 24 years...

Einstein, along with his brothers, invented Bagels. Or maybe that was who invented beagles...

Aristotle, along with Socrates and Plato, invented Grease...

Good Point, Piggy! If you really are Piggy, that is.... I think the real question that could change everything is "How do we know the reality we experience isn't just the fever dream of a dying lunatic in some desert wasteland?" I mean, that could really change everything. But, having done an in-depth comparison of the dimensions in the photograph: cigar to cigar, cigar to likely hand and watch band dimensions, trigonometric calculations of cigar to keyboard dimensions based on likely keyboard dimensions and likely distance cigars are from keyboard, and assuming and controlling for .... I too would say the cigar is an RASS. -el.barbudo

There is this topic from last year: http://www.friendsofhabanos.com/forum/topic/123830-to-re-light-half-smoked-cigars/?page=1 Ethernut, when you say "a relight" what time frame are you talking about? A few minutes after going inside to, um... mix another drink? A few hours like Cep mentioned? The next day as Arnold claims? In my experience even serious purging before, clipping, and purging after a relight still leaves you with a cigar that tastes like it was re-lit. I just realized, of course Arnold relights his cigars days after; think of all the terminator sequels he has been part of! Sadly, like T2, T3, T4, T5, etc, there always seems to be a decline from the first fire.

DEC13 LFdC Grandioso Wow! Selectos are not very good, but the Grandioso was stellar. Maybe just slightly underfilled, but truly the best I've had in many months.

Ha!

Will your basement temps really call for a cooled cigar storage? My father's basement near Chicago rarely gets up to 70 in the summer. Just sayin'... could spend that money on more cigars!

"... doesn't think you have the balls to pull the trigger." What happened next, was unspeakable...

My grandfather was at Medenine, Tunisia in March of '43 as a temporary Lt Col, 7th AD (RA) and received a DSO commendation. He wrote in a letter to my grandmother that his equal in the 2nd NZ should also have earned a DSO, but that to his knowledge wasn't mentioned "simply for being a Kiwi". My uncle (also RA) served with some Australians in Malaysia during the "emergency" (he doesn't much like to speak about his experience there) and also has a very high opinion of them. ANZAC day also represents the disgrace of how "commonwealth" soldiers, sailors, and airmen were too often treated as "second class" by their British counterparts, and by British planners. Lest we forget...

It's been a couple of years since I had the Cohiba, but my memory and brief notes report being very impressed. I'll fire up another of the 8 I have left soon...

Ditto your reaction, Cigcars. The original post was funny, but the knee-jerk anti-ACA reference was off-putting....

very, very nice!

Encantos always please.

It's more like rate a 2016 Shelby gt350r low and get laughed at, rate a 1985 yugo with a tree growing out of it high and get laughed at. CA has made some very realistic ratings, but my experience with the open is it's as good as the yugo, which only has value as a unique planter.

Yep!

This!

Are the veterans they refer to deceased? In that case I can see the occasional smoker preferring them less... but that doesn't mean the veterans like them, they just aren't complaining!

I have 15 left from an EMA JUN08 box and each one I've had has been stellar. I keep seeing newer boxes on 24:24, but always too late by the time I get home from work. What a tragedy...

I'd go with PP over RC, especially if they are recent PP which (I'm told) have really improved. I have a box of PP from '06 that I have mixed feelings about, but still like better than the 2 RC I've had... Yes, bring back the RS11or RS12! Any possible connection between the discontinuation of those and the recent improvement in PP?

maybe it was the end of the shift?

The PSD4 from those choices. Next choices should be Mag 46 or 50, or how about PLPC?

Isn't this the same guy who paid his bill with the spider drawing?

65%

overtime for everyone!