hey now, jokes like that are going to put YOU after devin there, matt! hahahaha well, i for one can't run with any big dogs for awhile. after a bad lay-off i'm back in school for the next year and a half and won't be seeing the kind of money i was making for a bit. uhh, i'm getting too old for this sh*t <school>. but, i hope we're still doing this when i get back up to speed so i can be a little more competitive and make up for my wimpy efforts of late.
devin, we're definitely having fun with your inventory. you've got the 100 year old cigars, remember? now that's funny! you don't have to be sensitive towards us with what you can put in a pass. i don't believe you're making anyone uncomfortable, maybe we're somewhat awed by your potential, but it's a good thing, so go ahead and cut loose! but by all means do HL III. just be sure to throw in a couple ordinary sticks for me. i think half the fun will be just seeing what you come up with, so to NOT do HL III would be to rob us all of some fine entertainment! all i was pointing out in my previous post was that, since everyone here is a conscientous passer, none of us would touch an old vintage cigar without being able to replace it with something older or better. that could be difficult and if you had a lot of older sticks, they could possibly come back to you when your pass was finished. and that would be a shame to put them thru the ordeal of shipping them around the country only to have them come back to you again. see what i'm saying? i suppose you could base a swap on value alone, but you'd have to tell us exactly what something like that would be worth. i wouldn't even attempt to assign a dollar amount to an old out of production stick.
with that said, my other point was that, with the vintage stick issue in mind, devin's act may turn out to not be so hard to follow afterall. i think he's got more potential to be a deadlier passer than pass originator. but regardless, don't worry devin, playing the who's-gonna-follow-devin game is all in good fun, and there's no such thing as a bad isom pass, particularly with this group. :thumbs: