cigarmonkel 01:28 PM 12-21-2008
i have yet to come in possession of a cigar that is worthy of never smoking... i have some 7-8 year old cigars in my vino but those still get smoked. The only ones i won't be touching for a while are some Opus X's that i wanna put some good age on before i lite em up.
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Mr. Ed 03:13 PM 12-21-2008
Originally Posted by Yazzie:
Everything is fair game on any given day :-)
:-)
I try to stay away from 'special occasion' classification of my cigars. When I want to smoke something I just grab it.
You never know when you'll get hit by a bus going in the eastbound lane, or slip on that bar of soap in the shower.
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chippewastud79 03:20 PM 12-21-2008
Originally Posted by M1903A1:
A CC Por Larranaga Panetela that I found in my father's things. It had dried out before I found it (in a plastic bag with a dried paper towel in it), so there's no point in trying.
It's in a glass tube in one of my humidors, as a display piece.
Thats a great piece for a collection. Not sure I would smoke that either, for the memory or the condition, probably makes for a better discussion piece than a smoke anyway.
:-)
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Smokin Gator 03:27 PM 12-21-2008
When I first hit the slope really hard I thought there were lots of cigars that should be special occasion. Now I have more of those than I can imagine special occasions in the next several years!!! Plus a couple of much wiser BOTLs have changed my opinion on it.... Now I am firmly in the smoke 'em when you feel like it camp.
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hotreds 03:38 PM 12-21-2008
Tio Gato 04:11 PM 12-21-2008
I had one cigar that I would never smoke. (I say had because it was in one of the humidors I had stolen recently.) I kid you not, it was a limited edition rolled to celebrate Gay Pride Day in Florida. The band had a map of the state with a rainbow colored triangle on it. It looked like a pretty cheap cigar, I bought it in Key West with the wife (I had to throw that in
:-)). It was a good conversation piece for sure.
Other than that one, I hope to live long enough to smoke every cigar I have.
:-)
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BillyCigars 04:17 PM 12-21-2008
Unfortunately, I am terribly sentimental and I have several cigars that I will probably never smoke. One example is a Davidoff Special 53 gifted me by a very generous BOTL as well as a Davidoff 100th Anniversary Diademas Fina gifted to me by the ever-generous PapaJohn. VirtualSmitty set me up with a few Opus X Perfexcion Xs back in '99 and due to sentimental reasons, I probably won't ever smoke them.
I think ultimately, all of my cigars will meet their fate but the ones I have the most attachment to, the most prized of my collection, will be saved for the most momentous of occasions.
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ucla695 07:54 AM 12-22-2008
I'm a smoker, not a collector, but there are some that will take a special occasion to be torched (AF HTFs).
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wayner123 08:45 AM 12-22-2008
I say smoke 'em if you got 'em.
There is always a special occasion that will come up. And if you are really that attached to it, why not take a picture of it and save it that way, then smoke it??
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