THE NEWBIE WELCOMING THREAD

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  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    *Thank you
  • Stubble
    Stubble Posts: 10,197 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Joking aside, @Bob_Luken hit the nail on the head...

    Hey, you gonna eat the rest of that corndog?
  • TheCigarChick
    TheCigarChick Moderator Posts: 358 admin
    ZEB28 said:
    Hey everyone, newbie here. I've been smoking cigars randomly(mainly celebrations) for many years. Since it was few and far between I always went with the same cigar I knew I liked. However, for the past couple months I have been smoking regularly so I started trying to have a more diverse selection. I bought a humidor and have been buying the sampler packs to find one's I like because I have no idea what brands are good or not. I really enjoyed the CAO La Travista and the Romeo by R&J so I bought packs of those. Looking through the threads you guys seem to have a lot of knowledge about cigars I had no idea existed. I have learned a lot over the past week or so reading through the posts and look forward to learning a lot more. 
    Welcome @ZEB28! 

    You're in a great place and great time as a cigar smoker because there is a lot out there for every preference. A lot of smaller companies have begun importing solid budget cigars, well-established (bigger) brands are working harder to attract the more boutique customer, and assuming no more insane hurricanes hit tobacco growing areas, we'll have some pretty amazing crops available in the next year or two.
  • BKDog
    BKDog Posts: 1,229 ✭✭✭✭✭
    ZEB28 said:
    Thank you for the warm welcome everyone. 

    Welcome! If you would like a free sample of a wide variety, I can send you about a dozen, no problem. Just PM me your information. Hope to see more from you.
    "Love is a dung heap, Betty and I am but a c.o.c.k. that climbs upon it to crow."
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome aboard @BSG_Apollo75.  Its a great night for a smoke.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • TNBigfoot68
    TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Awesome @BSG_Apollo75 you have come to the right place. 
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • Itsfine
    Itsfine Posts: 20,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @BSG_Apollo75.  Be sure to join the vherf and bomb @0patience also!
    @ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones. 
  • Trish
    Trish Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭✭✭
    deadman said:
    Welcome @TheCigarChick
    we have another SOTL on here @Trish but she’s been MIA and possibly in jail for assault on the service manger working on her new car. TheCigarChick said:
    Thanks @Guitarded! I actually have a copy already, but I do appreciate the offer.
    😂😂 that’s funny right there
    HAHAHA @deadman ever heard of the points game...? 10 points if you hit him,  20 if you draw blood... I'm into running people over with my car. 20pts here,  how about you? 😂😝
  • Trish
    Trish Posts: 1,908 ✭✭✭✭✭
    deadman said:
    Trish said:
    deadman said:
    Welcome @TheCigarChick
    we have another SOTL on here @Trish but she’s been MIA and possibly in jail for assault on the service manger working on her new car. TheCigarChick said:
    Thanks @Guitarded! I actually have a copy already, but I do appreciate the offer.
    😂😂 that’s funny right there
    HAHAHA @deadman ever heard of the points game...? 10 points if you hit him,  20 if you draw blood... I'm into running people over with my car. 20pts here,  how about you? 😂😝
    Bout time you posted bail. 😂

    Ya know,  couldn't leave you hanging for long.

    Welcome to all newbs!
  • TNBigfoot68
    TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Dripper introduce yourself here. 
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • Lostwages
    Lostwages Posts: 56 ✭✭✭
    Hello everyone. I've been lurking for about a week. Just reading all the threads. Finally decided to say hi. 

    I kind of got into cigars by accident. I've always picked up a cigar when going to Mexico (now I learned that they've all been fake). I never fully invested though. Just smoked it and didn't think about it anymore. It wasn't until my last trip to Miami that the cigar bug bit me. Walking through little Havana watching the guys hand roll. I bought a few from a couple different places .

    Then I got hooked when my buddy gave me some down there also. So now I had about 10 cigars or so. (come to find out the cohibe's were fake too) but by the time I've already ordered a humidor, humidor solution, digital hygrometer, and a few more sample packs online (at least I know those are not fake haha). 

    Had to send the (cheap) humidor back, even though it looked great. It wouldn't hold humidity. So then I learned about tupperdors. So all that should be arriving today. I have my collection in a temp Tupperware with a boveda. I'm already looking at a wineador too. Now my collection is past 25 and I'm hunting for authentic Cubans lol. 

    Well anyways that's my story. Thanks for all the info you guys provide here. 
  • deadman
    deadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome board
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,524 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @Lostwages

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  • Significant3
    Significant3 Posts: 2,409 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @Lostwages
  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Lostwages
    Cigarsofhabanos.com for authentic cubans. 
    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

  • CalvinAndHobo
    CalvinAndHobo Posts: 3,301 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @Lostwages , the best way to give advice in one sentence regarding the forum, in my opinion:

    Keep your cigars in plastic containers with bovedas as you are doing, private message @Bigshizza and ask to buy a sampler, don't buy more than 5 of something that you've never tried before until you figure out which blenders you like/trust, and enjoy the journey. 
  • Lostwages
    Lostwages Posts: 56 ✭✭✭
    @CalvinAndHobo thanks for the advice. @Usaf06 I checked out that site. Seems to have mixed reviews about mold and whatnot. Are they safe? 
  • ShawnOL
    ShawnOL Posts: 13,302 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @Lostwages .  definitely look up @Bigshizza samplers for sale.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • TNBigfoot68
    TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,815 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Welcome @Lostwages
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • Yakster
    Yakster Posts: 31,524 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lostwages said:
    @CalvinAndHobo thanks for the advice. @Usaf06 I checked out that site. Seems to have mixed reviews about mold and whatnot. Are they safe? 

    Safe and recommended AFAIK
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  • deadman
    deadman Posts: 8,856 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lostwages said:
    @CalvinAndHobo thanks for the advice. @Usaf06 I checked out that site. Seems to have mixed reviews about mold and whatnot. Are they safe? 
    Never received moldy sticks from them.
  • Bob_Luken
    Bob_Luken Posts: 11,689 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2019
    Lostwages said:

    @Bob_Luken from what I've read you seem to be the most active and the forum authority around here 

    go on GIF
  • Usaf06
    Usaf06 Posts: 11,892 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lostwages said:
    Thanks for the welcomes guys. This has been the most informative forum I've found so far.

    @Bob_Luken from what I've read you seem to be the most active and the forum authority around here lol. I'm not from Vegas I just picked that name cause I'm spending all my money on cigar stuff right now. I've been researching for the last 2 weeks or so. I'm still wet behind the ears but picked up quite a bit.



    "I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
    -- Winston Churchill

    "LET'S GO FRANCIS"     Peter

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