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KidTexKidTex Posts: 91 ✭✭✭
Ok, so I know I'm new here and none of you know much about me so, quick back story.  I worked for the local fire department for 10 years and recently gave it up to go into the family business.  My dad owns the local Dairy Queen, and recently decided to open a new store.  My brother and I will be running it, and after a discussion tonight over a mediocre cigar, we both agreed that we need to get a couple of really nice cigars for our opening day.  The question is... What do I order?!?!?!

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 10,004 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Go with what you know. Whatever you consider to be the best cigar you've had so far, go with that. But if you don't want to take that advice I would suggest Crowned Heads - Jericho Hill. Congrats on the new business and good luck.  
  • Usaf06Usaf06 Posts: 10,932 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Tatuaje black CG
    "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

  • kuzi16kuzi16 Posts: 14,633 ✭✭✭✭
    All depends on price point. 
    If price isn't a big deal I would recommend the avo domaine.  Med-Full body but super balanced. They age well also. 
  • Sketch6995Sketch6995 Posts: 4,495 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2017
    I smoked a 1502 Ruby with a couple years on it this morning from 
    @Patrickbrick
    That falls into this catagory.
    Or a AF Don Carlos Belicoso
    Or an Opus X if you like Lamborghinis.
    It's really subjective, one man's special occasions cigar is another man's yard gar.

    Padron anniv. Is a great one.
    The higher.......the fewer.  ( Alexander Rozhenko)

     What you can't forgive......you will become.
  • jlmartajlmarta Posts: 7,881 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wylaff said:

    Wear sunscreen.

    If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

    Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

    Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

    Do one thing every day that scares you.

    Sing.

    Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

    Floss.

    Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

    Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

    Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

    Stretch.

    Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

    Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

    Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

    Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

    Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

    Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

    Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

    Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

    Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

    Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

    Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

    Respect your elders.

    Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

    Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

    Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

    But trust me on the sunscreen.

    I had no idea you were quite so profound, @WylaffB)
  • AlbinfkAlbinfk Posts: 1,923 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Davidoff Winston Churchill. A classic.
  • GrawlsGrawls Posts: 663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    All my special occasions get Padron
  • RhamlinRhamlin Posts: 8,908 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Grawls said:
    All my special occasions get Padron
    Agree! Padron 64 Can't go wrong. 
  • WylaffWylaff Posts: 5,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
    jlmarta said:
    Wylaff said:

    Wear sunscreen.

    If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.

    Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

    Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

    Do one thing every day that scares you.

    Sing.

    Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

    Floss.

    Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

    Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

    Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

    Stretch.

    Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

    Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

    Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

    Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

    Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

    Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

    Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.

    Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good. Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

    Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

    Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft. Travel.

    Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.

    Respect your elders.

    Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

    Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

    Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

    But trust me on the sunscreen.

    I had no idea you were quite so profound, @WylaffB)
    I just burn easily.
    "Cooking isn't about struggling; It's about pleasure. It's like sǝx, with a wider variety of sauces."

    At any given time the urge to sing "In The Jungle" is just a whim away... A whim away... A whim away...
  • KidTexKidTex Posts: 91 ✭✭✭
    Rhamlin and wylaff agreeing made me feel like it was a good choice! Thx guys
  • TNBigfoot68TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,742 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Padron is my choice! Great choice!!! If I can't get the anniversary series Padron, my Next choice would be Eiroa 20 Years of Cigar. Great smoke!!!
    I was born a fool, and just got bigger!
  • YankeeManYankeeMan Posts: 2,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 2017
    Anything Padilla.  Good luck with the new store.
  • clearlysuspectclearlysuspect Posts: 2,124 ✭✭✭✭
    I have nothing to offer other than something in a Perfecto.  Nothing has ever screamed "business man" to me more than a perfecto cigar! 

    I'm not sure why.  Might have been something I saw on Looney Tunes as a kid. 
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