The Cohiba Siglo V1 Fact-Tastic Challenge [Archive]

Robusto

15-03-2009, 06:51 PM

The site's man on the slopes, Cohiba IV, is offering a Cohiba Siglo VI to the UKCF member who posts the best FACT about cigars.

No closing date yet, but members must submit one fact at a time in a separate post.

Dale will select the best cigar fact and will close the competition when he sees fit.

So get posting those facts!!!

Robusto

15-03-2009, 06:53 PM

CIGAR FACT
Posted by Bryan

Bill Clinton had to be checked for early-onset Alzheimers as he could never remember where he had left his stick.

cohibaIV

15-03-2009, 07:13 PM

The site's man on the slopes, Cohiba IV, is offering a Cohiba Siglo VI to the UKCF member who posts the best FACT about cigars.

No closing date yet, but members must submit one fact at a time in a separate post.

Dale will select the best cigar fact and will close the competition when he sees fit.

So get posting those facts!!!

:rock:

larrysputnik

15-03-2009, 08:58 PM

Many people confuse the "IV" in Cohiba Siglo IV as being Roman numerals for the number "4." In reality, the "IV" stands for I.V., the abbreviation for the medical term "intravenous," meaning to receive a substance directly through the bloodstream. The manufacturer of Cohiba cigars so named the Siglo IV in recognition of a short hospitalization of Fidel Castro back in the 1970s, where the dictator, showing his lighter side, was quoted as saying, "The one thing I hate about hospitals is that no one lets you enjoy a fine cigar in your hospital room. I miss my cigar so much I told my nurse to put the smoke from my cigar into one of these plastic bags and hook it up to my IV!" :849:

Oh, Fidel :rolleyes: What a jokester you are!

Mr Moore

15-03-2009, 09:37 PM

my god, is that true, brill factoid there larry.

cj121

15-03-2009, 09:48 PM

The phrase "Close but no cigar" is believed to have mid 20th Century origins whereby fairground stall owners gave them out as 'almost' prizes. First documented evidence is where the phrase was used in the 1935 print of Annie Oakley: "Close Colonel, but no cigar"

Boss Hog

16-03-2009, 12:55 AM

A half-smoked cigar enjoyed by Britain's war-time prime minister Sir Winston Churchill was sold at an auction for about ?670.
According to auctioneers Outhwaite and Litherland, Churchill had been puffing on the cigar when he arrived for a meeting in Blackpool, north-west England, on October 14, 1950, when he was leader of the Conservative Party.
Churchill stubbed out the cigar and handed it to a special constable standing next to him after being told that he could not smoke in the ballroom.
The policeman kept the cigar as a souvenir and it remained in his family until relatives decided to auction it off.

daverave999

16-03-2009, 04:16 PM

Avo Uvezian, who created Avo Cigars, played piano on Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit "Strangers in the night".

linfield100

16-03-2009, 06:32 PM

Russia's infamous Queen Catherine the Great loved to smoke cigars.
To avoid soiling her fingertips, she invented a version of the first cigar band. In her case, the bands were made of silk.

Stogiedog

16-03-2009, 07:10 PM

So many visitors were taking his cigars, so Thomas Edison devised a plan to discourage the practice. He had several boxes of cigars custom-made with cabbage leaves. But when the offensive smelling stogies were delivered to his office, his secretary sent them on to his home where his wife went ahead and packed the items in his luggage, and the offensive items accompanied Mr. Edison on his business trip. This just goes to show you that even a genius can't outsmart his wife.

Stogiedog

16-03-2009, 07:12 PM

Winston Churchill rationed himself 13 cigars/day during the war.

Stogiedog

16-03-2009, 07:32 PM

Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.

Ramon

16-03-2009, 07:36 PM

The oldest cigar factory still in operation today is the Partagas factory at 60 Industria Street. Built in 1845 by Don Jaime Partagas Ravelo and named Real Fabrica de Tabaco Partagas, (Partagas Royal Tobacco Factory).

He is accredited with being the first manufacturer to experiment with various methods of fermentation and aging tobacco, instead of relying on methods based on tradition.

He also made history by being the first person to employ a lector in the 1860's to read out loud in the factory, and personally supervised the first reading.

Robusto

16-03-2009, 07:49 PM

Before he presents Question Time on BBC1 on Thursday nights, David Dimbleby can be seen in the back of an Alfa Romeo in the Television Centre car park in silken breeches toking the Alec Bradley of his choice.

Not to be upstaged, brother Jonathan joins him on Summer weekends near the pony trails on Richmond Common for a public Havana-off in front of casual strollers. David Frost will sometimes drive by and wave.

Robusto

16-03-2009, 08:59 PM

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IeGWv7DYq34/SHYjjFAhCzI/AAAAAAAABFo/aTd46Xc1ygE/S1600-R/eddy+grant.jpg

Eddy Grant - We're Gonna Rock Down To Electric Avenue - was happy to be paid in many boxes of Cuban cigars for some of the gigs he played in the 1980s.

cohibaIV

16-03-2009, 09:23 PM

Keep them coming members...:rock:

PS
Some really good facts being being posted...:biggrin1:

PPS
Just think of that Siglo VI in its tube, waiting to be smoked..:41:

Robusto

16-03-2009, 09:28 PM

A blatant sex taunt there...

linfield100

16-03-2009, 09:35 PM

When I asked my missus if we could play Clinton and Monica, she refused.
Does this count as a Cigar fact?

Tony

nicwing

16-03-2009, 09:38 PM

Winston Churchill was a great friend of Odette Pol Roger the Grand Dame of the famous Champagne house.

Each year on his birthday, Odette Pol-Roger would dispatch Churchill a case of vintage champagne - usually the 1928 until supplies ran out in 1953. Thereafter she reserved the choicest wine for him; by 1965, he had only worked his way through to the harvest of 1934

When Churchill died, Odette Pol-Roger was one of those on the short list of personal friends invited to attend his state funeral service at St Paul's Cathedral. Afterwards, the Pol-Rogers searched for a suitable tribute to him, and found it by deciding henceforth to border their labels in black.

This tribute continues to this day.

I know it's Churchill rather than cigars, it's just a goody!

cohibaIV

16-03-2009, 09:47 PM

When I asked my missus if we could play Clinton and Monica, she refused.
Does this count as a Cigar fact?

Tony

:boom:

linfield100

16-03-2009, 10:00 PM

cohibaIV

16-03-2009, 10:00 PM

A blatant sex taunt there...

'O' No!!!

This is a sex taunt!!:eviltongue:

499

nicwing

16-03-2009, 10:06 PM

<META name=ProgId content=Word.Document><META name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 12"><META name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 12"><LINK rel=File-List href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsoht mlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml"><LINK rel=themeData href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsoht mlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx"><LINK rel=colorSchemeMapping href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CUser%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsoht mlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml"><STYLE>  </STYLE> During an archeological dig at the Great Pyramid of Cheops in 1952, Major Arthur Bosworthy uncovered a mummy reckoned to be Byllc Lynton the high priest and advisor to the Pharaoh.
Clutched in his mummified hand was what appeared to be a Hoyo De Monterry petit robusto and the bottom of the sarcophagus contained a liberal sprinkling of a fine aromatic ash.
Bosworthy concluded that the Egyptians were far more advanced than previously thought and ventured to suggest to an incredulous public that the pyramids were in fact ?Time Machines?.
He claimed to be close to discovering how to operate the ?Time Machines? but mysteriously disappeared in March 1953.
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Sorry??I just made that up!!!

This wonderful post has spured me into action, I will offer a fine Cuban stick, I'm working on which one, for the best made up fact.

I suggest these are posted here in the same thread just to confuse people!

cohibaIV

16-03-2009, 10:09 PM

This wonderful post has spured me into action, I will offer a fine Cuban stick, I'm working on which one, for the best made up fact.

I suggest these are posted here in the same thread just to confuse people!

:biggrin1:

Alex

16-03-2009, 10:15 PM

I AM BATMAN, FACT ! :smoke:

larrysputnik

17-03-2009, 02:26 AM

The day before signing the Cuban Trade Embargo, President John F. Kennedy secretly had $2000 worth of Cuban cigars delivered to him. :cowboyic9:

And to think we blamed Richard Nixon for saying, "If the President does it, it's not illegal." It seems to me that JFK practiced this rationale too. :849:

Mr Moore

17-03-2009, 04:27 AM

All round slippy cat, John Dillinger [public enemy No1] was shot dead with a cigar in his mouth.
Smoked whilst smoking, what a way to go.

Robusto

17-03-2009, 07:18 AM

It's the stench of the dry-cleaning fluid that troubles during high-end role play as a would-be Monica.

nicwing

17-03-2009, 10:21 AM

The day before signing the Cuban Trade Embargo, President John F. Kennedy secretly had $2000 worth of Cuban cigars delivered to him. :cowboyic9:

And to think we blamed Richard Nixon for saying, "If the President does it, it's not illegal." It seems to me that JFK practiced this rationale too. :849:

It's twoo it's twoo, see Kennedy's press secretary telling the story to some interested cigar smokers :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHazLBTZUEs
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Mr Moore

17-03-2009, 03:23 PM

Another slippy cat.
Tikrit chappie and all round bad egg who rose above from the marsh tribes....
SADDAM THE BADMAN HUSSAIN.

A condemned man is usually entitled to one last smoke, but according to a story in the New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-iraq-saddam-cigars.html), Saddam Hussein was provided with Cuban cigars while he was being held prior to his execution. The Cuban cigars were considered "mission essential", and were purchased with taxpayer dollars by the U.S. Military. A Lieutenant-Colonel is now facing a court-martial over the incident.

Another smokin cat gets smoked......Another brick in the wall..

Stevieboy

17-03-2009, 06:46 PM

It's twoo it's twoo, see Kennedy's press secretary telling the story to some interested cigar smokers :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHazLBTZUEs

Apparently they were almost all H Upmann petit coronas - JFK'S favourite

Robusto

17-03-2009, 07:08 PM

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/05_03/charlesDM0905_468x708.jpg

Whenever Jimmy Saville dropped in at Kensington Palace to talk to Lady Di about raising cash, she used to put his ten inch brown monster outside on the doorstep because she couldn't put up with its whiff.

Robusto

17-03-2009, 07:16 PM

http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/gerardandlisa/Bolan_22.jpg?t=1237317040

Marc Bolan declared himself a mung bean eating health fanatic. He used to make paper lampshades with John Peel. He spent much of his leisure time in the company of elves, wizards and the occasional dwarf.

When his sheet-mate David Bowie began to outsell the Electric Warrior by vanloads, Marc took up several dodgy habits. In one publicity shot, he was carried out of JJ Fox in a sedan chair by Micky Finn, his bongo player, and BP Fallon, his tour manager and publicist. Both of these men were photographed by the Daily Mirror blowing fat Montecristos into Marc's coke-puffed face.

Robusto

17-03-2009, 07:36 PM

In the film Picnic At Hanging Rock, a girl smokes a secret cigar in her dormitory bed in the outback.

cj121

17-03-2009, 08:57 PM

Sharon Stone popped around mine a few years back, sucked my stogie and scribbled on the photo I took!?

500

cj121

17-03-2009, 09:02 PM

Oral sex could be more dangerous than smoking stogies according to research, which seems to suggest that the risk of throat cancer is higher when you drink from the furry cup.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/10/special_rumpy_terrible_price/

Robusto

17-03-2009, 11:08 PM

Both fabulous pastimes.

Cigars are less likely to be adversely affected by nearby bananas if the yellow fruits are hung from a Lakeland Stainless Steel Banana Tree.

Robusto

17-03-2009, 11:28 PM

http://www.abc.net.au/reslib/200709/r187211_698669.jpg

Miriam Margoyles lives just down the road from me in a cliff-top house overlooking the English Channel. Apparently she's partial to the larger Nicaraguans.

cj121

18-03-2009, 12:04 AM

:eek::eek::eek::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::bigg rin1::hail:
Ooh, you tickle me:smile:
..and that's a FACT.

Robusto

18-03-2009, 07:10 AM

http://cms.442.haymarketnetwork.com/contentimages/blog/FourFourTwoView/malcolm_allison.jpg

Malcolm Allison, dandy manager of Crystal Palace FC in the 1970s, and love child of Susan Stranks and Bryan Forbes, used to receive boxes of fat Havanas from Watford Spokespiece Elton Hercules John. Elton has a chain-smoking mother and is thus smoke-friendly. Elton used to like the masculine edge this afforded Malcolm Allison, especially when the latter donned an 'out' fedora and crooned like a jazzer in the showers.

cj121

18-03-2009, 08:08 AM

What happened to the "Blair Stick Project" avatar Bryan?

Mr Moore

18-03-2009, 08:40 AM

http://cms.442.haymarketnetwork.com/contentimages/blog/FourFourTwoView/malcolm_allison.jpg

Malcolm Allison, dandy manager of Crystal Palace FC in the 1970s, and love child of Susan Stranks and Bryan Forbes, used to receive boxes of fat Havanas from Watford Spokespiece Elton Hercules John. Elton has a chain-smoking mother and is thus smoke-friendly. Elton used to like the masculine edge this afforded Malcolm Allison, especially when the latter donned an 'out' fedora and crooned like a jazzer in the showers.
great stuff robusto

Robusto

18-03-2009, 03:45 PM

What happened to the "Blair Stick Project" avatar Bryan?

I may lob it back on later, Sir.
It is strident.

cohibaIV

18-03-2009, 04:51 PM

Ok members...some really good postings so far so I think we will call time on this comp on the 31st of March....

So keep them coming....

You never know, It could be YOU!!:rock:

:cool:

Robusto

18-03-2009, 05:08 PM

http://www.foodnetworkfans.com/forum/attachments/food-network-programming-stars/46d1197947133-giadas-gigantic-grin-steventyler.jpg

Steve Tyler - he of parents Joanna Lumley and Carly Simon - told me once in some smoking mag or other that I should always exhale cigar smoke through my nostrils to fully savour a cigar's potency. Steve also told me cigar smoking was better than knocking back the powder kegged illegals. I tried this nose-blow once or twice, but now follow the advice of the stogieboys on their blog which is to push out about a third of a mouth capacity's smoke every now and again through my schnozzle. This is preferable to me, Steve. So sorry.

Robusto

18-03-2009, 05:12 PM

http://www.corrieblog.tv/BetLynchFredGee.jpg

Fred Gee (left), former bar master of Coronation Street's Returned Rover, liked nothing more than to stand behind the bar on a Wednesday night between 7 and 7.30 in the 1970s drawing on a Castella with his legs akimbo. It made him feel like the cock of the walk.

Robusto

18-03-2009, 05:28 PM

http://pro.corbis.com/images/42-16842345.jpg?size=67&uid=%7B4DF508BB-C870-49DE-8A41-A6AA38C71FDF%7D

Michael Winner, director of classics like Polyester and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, was something of a cigar hoover. He would spend up to three weeks on a diet of artichokes and Ryvita knocked back with Martell in great glasses. His physicians finally decided the cigars were doing him too much good, so advised him to stop smoking and be fucking miserable. It took Michael a long time to get off cigars and into dire adverts. In the period of his transition, he bought a special K-Tel mini hoover and ordered his housemaid to chase him and his ash all around his mansion. When his maid passed away from trivial pursuits, the ash mounted up to the parlour windowsills and Michael could barely feel the artichokes. One day he decided to phone his old soundstage mates at Pinewood and ask them to help out. Two weeks later, the props guys placed the wind machines on his front doorstep and blew all ashes and cigars away. Michael no longer craves Montecristos as in the past, but his quality of life is perpetually turned up to 11 via Prozac cakes. All of which is God's singular way of telling us never ever to give these bitches up.

Robusto

18-03-2009, 05:38 PM

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Cinema/4756/vv02.jpg

After a night out with Miriam Margoyles, Julie Andrews decided her lesbian chic would be double-underlined by sculpting her head and hair in a tight-slicked Spandau Ballet way. She was fed up by being perceived as eternally sugary so used the cigar to give her the air of a hard bastard. Don't know about you, but I use my stick as a male phallic boast'n'threat, and it's all Julie's fault.

Peanut

18-03-2009, 06:07 PM

After doing some reading on Freud and his experiences with cigars I stumbled across this poem..which tickled me.

I wont paste the whole thing as it is fairly long.

Rudyard Kipling - The Betrothed
http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2738/

linfield100

18-03-2009, 06:23 PM

After 18 months at sea gathering the grand leaf for the good folk of England, Sir Walter Raleigh was anxious to be reunited with his good lady Elizabeth.
He hadn't had any sex for ages, apart from when on the occasional foray into the bowels of his ship looking for the elusive Golden Rivet with Jim, the cabin boy.

On reaching his home he dashed up the stairs, his tunic bulging with the finest tobacco. Elizabeth took one look at him and uttered the immortal phrase, still in common use today "Is that a Robusto in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"

Tony

Robusto

18-03-2009, 06:30 PM

"Is that a Robusto in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"

:biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1:

Robusto

18-03-2009, 06:48 PM

http://islandista.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/condi-rice-boots.jpg

Condoleeza Rice would be dispatched in Air Force 1 by George Bush on secret missions. He liked her to doll up as Prince circa Lovesexy and lob stogies at the boys stationed overseas.

cohibaIV

18-03-2009, 07:03 PM

After 18 months at sea gathering the grand leaf for the good folk of England, Sir Walter Raleigh was anxious to be reunited with his good lady Elizabeth.
He hadn't had any sex for ages, apart from when on the occasional foray into the bowels of his ship looking for the elusive Golden Rivet with Jim, the cabin boy.

On reaching his home he dashed up the stairs, his tunic bulging with the finest tobacco. Elizabeth took one look at him and uttered the immortal phrase, still in common use today "Is that a Robusto in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?"

Tony

LOL....:biggrin1: fucking laughed my head off????

linfield100

18-03-2009, 08:26 PM

Deano

19-03-2009, 06:41 PM

My fav fact, but well known:

The Cohiba cigar began when these cigars were smoked by Bienvenido "Chicho" Perez, a confidant and bodyguard of Fidel Castro. Castro took notice of the frequent smoking by Chicho and commented that it was a very nice, aromatic cigar. When Castro asked him, Chicho said they were rolled by a friend and he would get Castro some as gifts.
Eduardo Rivera was the man rolling the cigars and he was working in the La Corona factory. Castro immediately contacted Rivera and asked him to roll some cigars for him. He then set him up in a mansion with 5 other rollers within the suburb of Havana called El Laguito. This factory would become the first factory only staffed by women torcedoras. For a significant period of time, the cigars were only for Castro himself and various other esteemed Cuban officials. They were also presented to foreign dignitaries as gifts often. Castrol became fond of the Corona Especial and Lancero types.
In 1982 and in combination with the World Cup being showcased in Spain, Castro released his personal cigars as exquisite and premium cigars to the public.

From: http://www.cigarslot.com/cigars/cohiba-cigars

Boss Hog

19-03-2009, 09:22 PM

The cigars George Peppard smoked in the TV series "Banacek" were actually George Peppard's private stock of hand-made panatelas from Club 21 in New York... and they were the same cigars he smoked as "Hannibal Smith" in "The A-Team" 1983. After he died they have since been passed on to his old A-Team mate Dirk Benidect, who later took them into the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2007. He had told the Big Brother producers "no cigars, no Benedict" as part of the deal to appear on the show. He duly arrived at the show in the A-Team van chomping on his cigar!
Other Celebrity Big Brother housemates also enjoyed a number of other cigar links such as Ken Russell who is an avid smoker and Leo Sayer who's song " The show must go on" contains the lyric "All the wild men with big cigars and gigantic cars"
One other housemate Ian "H" Watkins (The gay one from the pop group Steps) had also been rumoured to have had "his mouth round a couple of fat cubans" from time to time!!

" I love it when a plan comes together"

larrysputnik

19-03-2009, 09:28 PM

The cigars George Peppard smoked in the TV series "Banacek" were actually George Peppard's private stock of hand-made panatelas from Club 21 in New York... and they were the same cigars he smoked as "Hannibal Smith" in "The A-Team" 1983. After he died they have since been passed on to his old A-Team mate Dirk Benidect, who later took them into the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2007. He had told the Big Brother producers "no cigars, no Benedict" as part of the deal to appear on the show. He duly arrived at the show in the A-Team van chomping on his cigar!
Other Celebrity Big Brother housemates also enjoyed a number of other cigar links such as Ken Russell who is an avid smoker and Leo Sayer who's song " The show must go on" contains the lyric "All the wild men with big cigars and gigantic cars"
One other housemate Ian "H" Watkins (The gay one from the pop group Steps) had also been rumoured to have had "his mouth round a couple of fat cubans" from time to time!!

" I love it when a plan comes together"

I love A-Team trivia facts. This beauty doubles as A-Team Fact/Cigar Fact. Nicely done. :cowboyic9:

"I pity the fool who don't eat my cereal!"

linfield100

19-03-2009, 09:49 PM

'Have a Cigar' is a track on Pink Floyd's 1975 Album 'Wish You Were Here'

Tony

nicwing

19-03-2009, 10:09 PM

A large sized cigar has much more tobacco content than a whole pack of cigarettes.

larrysputnik

20-03-2009, 02:09 AM

A large sized cigar has much more tobacco content than a whole pack of cigarettes.

Well damn skippy! That's why the darn things cost so much. Yee-Haw! :cowboyic9:

Mr Moore

20-03-2009, 12:30 PM

surprised !! Id of thought more than one packet of cig's, nicwing,
Id of thought one corona to two pack's of twenty.

cj121

20-03-2009, 09:11 PM

A large sized cigar has much more tobacco content than a whole pack of cigarettes.

And the nicotine is equivalent too apparently:41:

cohibaIV

21-03-2009, 02:44 PM

TEN DAYS TO GO!!!!

http://www.ukcigarforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=499&thumb=1&d=1237240823 (http://www.ukcigarforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=499&d=1237240823)

:biggrin1:
:p
:cool:

Mr Moore

21-03-2009, 03:02 PM

TEN DAYS TO GO!!!!

http://www.ukcigarforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=499&thumb=1&d=1237240823 (http://www.ukcigarforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=499&d=1237240823)

:biggrin1:
:p

:cool:

can I lick the stem!!!!

cohibaIV

21-03-2009, 03:10 PM

:rolleyes:

daverave999

21-03-2009, 03:36 PM

Reportedly, Ernest Hemingway, at the egging on of a group of journalists he was drinking with at the Palace Hotel bar in Rapallo, Italy, presented an exploding cigar to one of four bodyguards of Turkish General, İsmet İn?n?. When the cigar "went off", all four guards drew their guns and took a bead on Hemingway. He apparently escaped without any grievous bodily injury.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"></sup>

cj121

22-03-2009, 07:32 AM

In an effort to promote smoking cessation during the height of WWII, it would seem that the press twisted and cleverly mis-represented Churchill's famous quote to rally the country around to the more productive pursuit of fighting the Hun. The truth is finally out...
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Robusto

22-03-2009, 09:23 AM

http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/arnold-cigar.jpg

Armold Schwarzeneggar, on becoming Governor of California, had a special cigar-smoking marquee installed within the government buildings so he could indulge his stogie habit as well as conducting business with fellow cigar smokers or with non-smoking intelligent people who were not neurotic about a couple of hours' exposure to his cigar smoke. We need someone like him over here...

Ramon

22-03-2009, 11:58 AM

A great pic, looks like a kettle that's just come to the boil :biggrin1:

larrysputnik

22-03-2009, 01:51 PM

Several months ago a UK man who goes by the online screen name "CohibaIV" reportedly found a tubed cigar on the floor of his home. it was covered in dust and fur and tucked way back behind an old couch that he was going to move to the trash. After he discovered the old cigar underneath the couch he removed the cap to the tube to find that there was a fake Cohiba VI resting inside, covered in tiny tobacco beetles, small worms, mold and even some peach-like fuzz. :eek: Telling other unsuspecting forum members that subscribe to the renowned cigar enthusiast web site ukcigarforums.com that the aforementioned attributes were some sort of "plumage," CohibaIV placed the cigar up as a prize to a "fact-finding" contest. The winner, as of yet unnamed, will receive the cigar and all of the diseases growing in and on it from CohibaIV's dirty living room floor.:afraid:

On a side note, a team of aspiring scientists believe that there may be a cure for other major diseases growing on the cigar. :smile:

That, my friends, is two facts. :41:

cohibaIV

22-03-2009, 02:36 PM

Several months ago a UK man who goes by the online screen name "CohibaIV" reportedly found a tubed cigar on the floor of his home. it was covered in dust and fur and tucked way back behind an old couch that he was going to move to the trash. After he discovered the old cigar underneath the couch he removed the cap to the tube to find that there was a fake Cohiba VI resting inside, covered in tiny tobacco beetles, small worms, mold and even some peach-like fuzz. :eek: Telling other unsuspecting forum members that subscribe to the renowned cigar enthusiast web site ukcigarforums.com that the aforementioned attributes were some sort of "plumage," CohibaIV placed the cigar up as a prize to a "fact-finding" contest. The winner, as of yet unnamed, will receive the cigar and all of the diseases growing in and on it from CohibaIV's dirty living room floor.:afraid:

On a side note, a team of aspiring scientists believe that there may be a cure for other major diseases growing on the cigar. :smile:

That, my friends, is two facts. :41:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

:biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1: :biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1: :biggrin1::biggrin1:

Robusto

22-03-2009, 11:16 PM

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00676/Wayne_Mardle_and_Ph_676152a.jpg

Nicky Clarke, the softly-spoken crimper, is a cigar aficionado. If you are going on the herf to London in April, you will walk past Nicky's Berkeley Square salon. Chances are he'll be on the front step polishing one off on the day.

Robusto

23-03-2009, 05:45 PM

Hello Everyone.

I just want to say that all of my posts in this fact sump have been true. The only exception is the bit about Miriam Margoyles - BUT she does live only three miles away, so it's kinda true.

The bit about the maid chasing the film director for his cigar ash is absolutely true.

Nicky Clarke IS a chomper of good cigars. I just couldn't find an image in Google images.

Aerosmith... Arnie... All true!

Please note, Dale. :smoke:

Your loving
Brown Noser xxxxx

larrysputnik

23-03-2009, 10:38 PM

Hello Everyone.

I just want to say that all of my posts in this fact sump have been true. The only exception is the bit about Miriam Margoyles - BUT she does live only three miles away, so it's kinda true.

The bit about the maid chasing the film director for his cigar ash is absolutely true.

Nicky Clarke IS a chomper of good cigars. I just couldn't find an image in Google images.

Aerosmith... Arnie... All true!

Please note, Dale. :smoke:

Your loving
Brown Noser xxxxx

So...not all of your "facts" are facts? :eek: There must be something wrong with you. :41:

Robusto

24-03-2009, 06:20 AM

Good one I picked up about Miriam Karlin down the gym... Bit too lewd for the sensitive...

nicwing

24-03-2009, 07:44 AM

Good one I picked up about Miriam Karlin down the gym... Bit too lewd for the sensitive...

OK now I'm really interested, any chance of a password protected section for this thread to save you from the law courts?? :rolleyes:

Robusto

28-03-2009, 09:07 PM

http://i.thisis.co.uk/274096/article/images/219329/291136.jpg

Jilly Goolden, that posh-vowelled sexalot Jezabel from all those cookery slots, was once in an article in one of the colour supplements that I grubbed my way through in some Kwik Fit waiting area amongst the soiled People's Friends in an article about premium cigars for Christmas.

The article seemed to be for the big time one-off daring cigar smoker. You know, the sort of man whose balls are de-clamped by his spouse to blow rings on Boxing Day while the family sit and chuckle at him throwing up. The article was called...

Push The Fucking Boat Out, Poppets. It's Christmas After All.

Jilly was standing as if in the centre of a clock face with chubby stogie beauties all around her like the numbers around a clock. There was a suggestion of a riding crop, a waxed saddle and manacles in the half light.

Jilly was pictured doing that sucking thing that she used to do over and over when faced by an impressive grand cru. "I'm getting gooseberries and sulfur". That sort of telly bollocks.

Fortunately I managed to pin down the mechanics at the very same Kwik Fit today. The chaps had pinned Jilly's snap in the locker room. Curiously, they had airbrushed out the cigar so that one could imagine Jilly up to any number of varied telly tastings in the photograph.

(This is the truth. The article existed. It did).

larrysputnik

28-03-2009, 09:10 PM

http://i.thisis.co.uk/274096/article/images/219329/291136.jpg

Jilly Goolden, that posh-vowelled sexalot Jezabel from all those cookery slots, was once in an article in one of the colour supplements that I grubbed my way through in some Kwik Fit waiting area amongst the soiled People's Friends in an article about premium cigars for Christmas.

The article seemed to be for the big time one-off daring cigar smoker. You know, the sort of man whose balls are de-clamped by his spouse to blow rings on Boxing Day while the family sit and chuckle at him throwing up. The article was called...

Push The Fucking Boat Out, Poppets. It's Christmas After All.

Jilly was standing as if in the centre of a clock face with chubby stogie beauties all around her like the numbers around a clock. There was a suggestion of a riding crop, a waxed saddle and manacles in the half light.

Jilly was pictured doing that sucking thing that she used to do over and over when faced by an impressive grand cru. "I'm getting gooseberries and sulfur". That sort of telly bollocks.

Fortunately I managed to pin down the mechanics at the very same Kwik Fit today. The chaps had pinned Jilly's snap in the locker room. Curiously, they had airbrushed out the cigar so that one could imagine Jilly up to any number of varied telly tastings in the photograph.

(This is the truth. The article existed. It did).

Well now those guys have a real knack for airbrushing. Curious. :41:

Mr Moore

30-03-2009, 02:10 AM

Seven time retired Formula One World Champion Michael Schumacher smokes a cigar after the Qualifying for the German Formula One Grand Prix at the Hockenheim. But hang on, Im no Miss Marple, but what cigar is Michael smoking ?
Proving beyond doubt that people who smoke cohiba's, drive fast, play hard and are all round good eggs.
Another Mr Moore Fact, another brick in the dream ticket cohiba fact wall.
Thanks guys

:director:BBBBrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwa _-_---:-__--_:car:____*:first: *

:41:

Ramon

30-03-2009, 10:09 AM

Here's an interesting little article about Michael http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,1576,00.html

nicwing

30-03-2009, 10:14 AM

Here's an interesting little article about Michael http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,1576,00.html

Great Shumifact there Ramon, what a great dinner to be at! :cool:

Boss Hog

31-03-2009, 10:17 AM

is this finished now? Who won?

cohibaIV

31-03-2009, 05:01 PM

is this finished now? Who won?

No...Last day today.....:biggrin1:

cohibaIV

01-04-2009, 06:56 PM

CLOSED!!!

Will go through all the posts once again and I will post the winner on Saturday...GOOD LUCK!!:41:

cj121

05-04-2009, 05:44 PM

Is there any breaking news?

cohibaIV

05-04-2009, 07:57 PM

Can't bloody decide??????

Sorry...delayed result's at the mo!!:rolleyes:

cohibaIV

07-04-2009, 06:47 AM

After reading the posts many time over, I can now say the great words -

And the winner is.......

cj121

The phrase "Close but no cigar" is believed to have mid 20th Century origins whereby fairground stall owners gave them out as 'almost' prizes. First documented evidence is where the phrase was used in the 1935 print of Annie Oakley: "Close Colonel, but no cigar"

Well done mate, PM me your address and the Puro will be sent to you ASAP..:41:

Robusto...you get a second, just on the account of posting so many...:smoke:

Will give you a Puro on the walk mate,...:41:

cj121

07-04-2009, 07:18 AM

:cheer2::drum:

Waayhaay. That's a nice suprise.

Proper chuffed with that, cheers Dale. Hang on to it for the walk and I'll grab it then if okay? Save the postage.

As Sir Les Patterson would say "...I was up against some stiff competition!"

Congrats to a venerable :second: too.

Robusto

07-04-2009, 10:30 AM

Well deserved, cj!

Is that a bus-backing cock or a tumbling log up there?
I can't quite make it out.

Dale - You are too kind, my man! Very generous of you.
I'm wired to log-drop for Britain also, and if it gets me a phat one, I'm well happy. :biggrin1:
(I only do it cos it gets me out of the doldrums).

I have an idea for a parallel competition to the herf snap. It would be Pose n Smoke By A Landmark.

What do we think?

You can come round if you want.

I'm going to have a crack at it this afternoon.

cohibaIV

07-04-2009, 05:03 PM

:biggrin1:
:cheer2::drum:

Waayhaay. That's a nice suprise.

Proper chuffed with that, cheers Dale. Hang on to it for the walk and I'll grab it then if okay? Save the postage.

As Sir Les Patterson would say "...I was up against some stiff competition!"

Congrats to a venerable :second: too.

No probs mate....will bring the Cigar to the walk...! NOTE - it will be coming straight out of the humi in the morning so will be ready to smoke on the day if you want..:biggrin1:

cj121

07-04-2009, 06:36 PM

:biggrin1:

No probs mate....will bring the Cigar to the walk...! NOTE - it will be coming straight out of the humi in the morning so will be ready to smoke on the day if you want..:biggrin1:

It'd be rude not to Dale:rock:
Thanks.

cj121

07-04-2009, 06:38 PM

Well deserved, cj!

Is that a bus-backing cock or a tumbling log up there?
I can't quite make it out.

:biggrin1::biggrin1:

Aah, 'tis a dark passage on the road to enlightenment Bryan, a dark passage:smoke:

cj121

07-04-2009, 06:46 PM

A pose and smoke could be interesting. How long you thinking of running it for?

Stevieboy

07-04-2009, 08:24 PM

well done CJ (ya lucky f*cker :p)

cj121

07-04-2009, 08:38 PM

well done CJ (ya lucky f*cker :p)

Cheers Stevie

I know, good stuff eh:smile:

I haven't won anything since getting a call last week about a free ?1500 Euro break after completing a consumer survey...it ended up one of those hard sell seminas/endurance tests to get it though. I also expect they drill the arse off you in resort so might give it a miss!

All in all, there were some faargin great input for this compo and when I can think of something to challenge your good-selves with, I'll be putting one up after Deano:smoke:

Robusto

07-04-2009, 08:52 PM

It's interesting to re-read.

Won't be long til we see FURRY CUP KILLS stamped all over the place, and even on the cups themselves.

And there will be NHS touchy-feely clinics to make us stop it.

cj121

07-04-2009, 09:14 PM

LOL.
That gets us back to the cancer scare comparison between said cup and cigars I posted up Bryan: looks like sticks are the safer option.

Bugger, I've got the hiccups again, off a D4 (happens with others too). Found out, it's the nicotine levels in the sweet lil' devils. Should've posted that fact up.