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    Advice for beginners cigar palate

    @grateful1 put it pretty succinctly, but hit the nail on the head. I've been smoking cigars semi-regularly for 25+ years and I have never once tasted any of the flavor notes that I read in reviews. I try a lot of different sticks. Back in the day, if I liked one I would stick the ring in my...
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    Toasty Jones Cigars - are they really that good?

    I got one box of BV's a couple years ago and they all had a super tight draw. I must have been the outlier because all of the other reviews for those were generally positive. Although this thread has got me wanting to pick up a bundle of the Toasty Jones to refill my golf cigar stash. I just...
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    Missing Messages

    I just checked and the oldest one showing up for me is from October 2009. I've been here since 2004, so I figure I'm missing some older than 2009.
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    Happy Thread

    That's great! It's been my experience with CAP inspectors that they don't feel they have done their job until they find something they can call a deficiency, so they ding you on something that is technically within the regulations.
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    Search function question...

    What is the minimum character limit for individual words when trying to use the search function? For example, I just ordered a box of a CAO blend I'd never had before (CAO Nicaragua, it was on clearance) and before I bought it I was trying to search here to see if anyone had done a previous...
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    Happy Thread

    CLIA inspection?
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    Happy Thread

    Very cool! I got to sit 3rd row for one of his shows in Indiana a couple of years ago.
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    What SMOKING music are you listening to? (2025)

    KWS is my favorite living guitarist. I think I've seen him 5 or 6 times. He puts on a phenomenal show.
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    Best Super Bowl National anthem?

    I put Stapleton's version slightly ahead of Whitney Houston's because the version of Whitney's anthem that was heard on TV was pre-recorded. Supposedly she also sang it live, but you only heard that if you were in the stadium...
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    Time to elevate - making the best even better...

    I already snuck in and unlocked the back door. Y'all come on in.
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    Happy birthday AVB !

    Happy Birthday Ray!
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    What SMOKING music are you listening to? (2025)

    My Dad took me to my very first concert when I was 14. It was Lynyrd Skynyrd in Chattanooga, TN. One of the opening acts was a very young (18 or 19) Kenny Wayne Shepherd. I had been playing guitar for a few months at that point and had seen him in some of the guitar magazines, but I'd never...
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    Sad news about one of our BOTLs...

    I received a message that John Crowder - known here as @KayakinBoy - passed away unexpectedly a couple of days ago. I know he hasn't been around here recently, but I'm sure that some of the guys that have been around for a while will remember him. I first met John in December of 2004. He came...
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