RichP
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Nothing like kicking back at work and lighting up a davidoff churchill and sipping a black and tan while doing some white paper reading... specially when your boss drops it off for you..
Ahhh the good life....
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00Classic
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Yes it makes for a good time and I relaxing to a glass of Ron Zacapa and a ESG churchill.
Red90Laredo
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I am looking for work, and prefer a cigar lounge type work environment. let me know if I can be of assistance.
5-90
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I enjoy my Arturo Fuente Sungrowns and Forty Creek Whisky.
But being Canadian, I have access to Cuban cigars from my local grocery store
Go soak your head - I have one Cuban Cohiba left (bought ca 1961, given to me in 1991.) Saving it for one more special occasion - it's the last of five that I was given...
No smoking in my office (home office - my rule. Garage is always a smoking area, unless I'm painting or have solvents out.) Damn depakote doesn't have me drinking anymore...
I do recall a job I had where drinking was permitted either A) past 1700 or B) when the boss came in and asked for the bottle (it lived in my desk - kept the rest of his co-workers out of the stash.) It was typically Bacardi Limon - with a bottle of 151 hidden in another drawer. I didn't allow smoking in that shop either (computer assembly,) but we owned the whole building and the door was handy anyhow.
My favourite smokes are still Partagas 8-9-8 and Acid Atom Maduro - but I'll try anything once (I find that not getting into a pattern keeps me from going back to two packs a day...)
Freaky McPants
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As George Carlin said "A Cigar is nothing but a big brown D1ck, with a White Business Man (0cksucker, Suckin on the wet end of it." I kid. Not really a big fan of Cigars, but I do smoke them every once in a while. I do really like Glenfiddich 12 year old Single Malt Scotch.
RichP
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Where I am my humidor is around 5,000 sqft, 4 stories, the new building being built now has a 20,000sqft humidor, 5 stories, at least as of this week, it may be bigger. I'll be picking out the tiles for my raised floor computer room and office soon. We're also working on total green building, solar for electic, heat and hot water. I think we are getting ready for the normalization of relations with cuba, we'll see.
I bought cuban cigars at the Hudsons bay company last time I was up in Hull for a weekend of debauchery...
lolz. There's lots of debauchery to be had near/in Quebec.
oh, and it's definitely nice to have a large place to smoke cigars inside. I would never smoke a cigar inside my home, and they closed down the only cigar bar in town. I'm reserved to smoking them on the patio.
Rev Den
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70/70 in a building? A little moist for a server farm ain't it?
Buddy of mine built a cigar room off his office before Illinois went smoke free. I asked him what now....his response....
"Let them fine me....I got the money, whats the use of having it if you can't spend it"
Rev
Buddy of mine built a cigar room off his office before Illinois went smoke free. I asked him what now....his response....
"Let them fine me....I got the money, whats the use of having it if you can't spend it"
Rev
5-90
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Did I mention I light those Arturos and Cubans with my Zippo Venetian
Purty lighter (my Zippo is just an Air Force-logoed one with my name engraved on the back...) but the best fire for lighting cigars is either a propane/butane lighter or a wooden match (after you let all the sulphur in the head burn off.) Believe me, with better smokes it damn sure does make a difference!
RichP
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Yea, here they catch you with a zippo lighter fluid lighter you get fired AFTER they tar and feather you....
I picked up this zippo when my butane lighter broke. I'm still thinking of adding the zplus butane insert for it (its roughly 10 bucks).
RichP
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We got one in the store that looks like a cross between a bunsen burner and a coleman single stack stove, dam near took my eyebrows off with it. Didn't know you weren't supposed to hold it up with the cigar in your mouth but keep it on the table and light it that way by holding the tip in at arms length.
wolfpackjeeper
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and here I am smoking the "Cuban Reject" brand cigars. Dirt cheap, but I actually really like them. Pretty good as a "not a special occasion" type of cigar. Have not been able to smoke recently since on all my training health questionairs for the pressure chamber and bay ops and such have a "have you smoked in the last 48 hours" question.
5-90
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My uncle has a Zippo like that - damned thing is a good 18" high! Flame was about another foot and a half - I'm not sure I'd use it to actually light anything sticking out of my face still... This is from a guy who has used blowtorches to light his smokes when he's working!
Cnickgo
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Unless you get the butane insert....
I only light my pipes with matches, and only Swans at that. It carries over to cigars naturally.
You want to see an angry crowd, let some experienced pipe smokers see you lighting a pipe with a lighter!
5-90
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No argument whatever - I have a Colibri and a couple of Zippos, in fact - I've also got a few plain-jane Bics that I use for daily carry-around (fire is as much a part of getting dressed as a blade is, to me.)
And there is very much a ritual about smoking a good cigar - from lighting to the end. Part of why I enjoy having a good smoke every now and again - it's a ritual, and it's a break from pretty much everything for an hour or so. While I've got that cigar in my hand, I'm probably as close as I can get to a "blank slate" betwixt my ears. Probably as close to meditation as I'll ever come - I even seem to be in a bit less pain while I'm smoking (I'm sure that is psychosomatic - just like how my headache is decreased for a couple of hours after I go to the Mongolian BBQ to etch the lining out of my stomach on a semi-regular basis. My neuropath can't see why that should be, but she also thinks there's no real reason for me to stop doing it, if it works...
(Come to think on it, she's also the first doctor I've had as an adult that doesn't give me any grief about smoking cigars. And, she's small and cute. Is it any wonder I look forward to neuro appointments?
(And yes, my wife knows all about it. She's been seeing the neuro as well for nerve impingement at C5 and to rule out possible CSA...)