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For a moment, I thought I was on hidden camera. This can’t be real, can it?

@mropusx said:

Some of us are here to talk provenance and availability. Others seem to be here to perform. Both are fine. Only one belongs in this thread. Collectors talk provenance. Pyromaniacs talk fuel.

The balls on this guy! 😂 The guy who's been here for 5 minutes is telling us why "some of us" are here.

I even offered him four of those partagas and nary a response. However, if you're just going to "study" them, you can forget it. Cigars are meant to be smoked.

This is obviously Steve or Ross. Or Daniel. Or Peter. Or Nick or Patrick. Or someone who has a beef with Pete and is using chat GPT to troll him. No fine Southern gentleman who wants to preserve and study elitist cigars is going to find a forum, derive the name of " Mr opus x," and then let the first words out of his scum hole be a request of what we can do for him.

Out with it, young man. Show your face.

Is this ChatGPT trolling us?

I asked about Partagas 150s — a documented anniversary release that collectors preserve, study, and actually respect. I didn’t ask for a campfire story. I spent a career where we learned pretty early that when a man turns history into kindling, it usually isn’t history he’s trying to impress you with.

Saying you use Partagas 150s to light your ‘good cigars’ doesn’t insult the 150s. It just puts a spotlight on the ‘good cigars.’ And if those good cigars are Gurkhas, that explains the need for accelerants. In most cigar lounges, Gurkha is what you buy when you want a lot of packaging, a dramatic backstory, and a pleasant surprise if it actually smokes well. That’s not elitism — that’s just decades of shared experience.

Down South we call this politely: when a man brags about what he burns, he usually isn’t bragging about what he owns. Around serious collectors, cigars like the 150s aren’t punchlines. They’re artifacts. Some of us are here to talk provenance and availability. Others seem to be here to perform. Both are fine. Only one belongs in this thread. Collectors talk provenance. Pyromaniacs talk fuel.

So if you truly have Partagas 150s and something useful to add, I’m listening. If all you have is a lighter and a sense of humor, enjoy the show. I’m here for cigars.

@Itsfine said:

@TRayB said:

Did you get your wife's permission to use her gloves?

They were in the garbage can, so fair game.

@TRayB said:

Did you get your wife's permission to use her gloves?

I am Groot.