Just a note...

[poker]

Thanks to everyone here at the Asylum. Cigar Asylum is coming up on our 2ed year in existence. We are also quickly approaching 1,000,000 posts as well.

A google search for Cigar Forums brings us in at #3


:tu:tu Thanks to everyone!!! :tu:tu




:l

[Mugen910]

:l

and it looks like we're still growing :eek:

[McSmokey]

:l:wo:wo

[Don Fernando]

We are also quickly approaching 1,000,000 posts as well.


half of which are posted by Tom :D

[pnoon]

We are also quickly approaching 1,000,000 posts as well.
950,000 are Tom's. :D
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[pnoon]

Great minds think alike.
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[Don Fernando]

:r and it will only give Tom reason to post more :D

[357]

I guess it depends on the exact search. I see us at #2

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/357magnum/Cigars/CA-Google.jpg

Looks like we're two spots above our old friends... :banger

[Da Klugs]

This post was... almost one in a million. :D

[poker]

:banger

[croatan]

Not bad for doing absolutely zero link exchanges or other programs to raise the rankings. Guess this place might actually make it :r


:l

You guys rock.

[Mugen910]

This post was... almost one in a million. :D

where is the drum smiley?

[LasciviousXXX]

Not bad for doing absolutely zero link exchanges or other programs to raise the rankings. Guess this place might actually make it :r



Quality over quantity :tu

Thank you everyone, for making CA such a success. A home for friends and family.

[Da Klugs]

where is the drum smiley?

http://dnbforum.com/images/smilies/drummer.gif

[SmokeyJoe]

Quality over quantity :tu

Thank you everyone, for making CA such a success. A home for friends and family.

:tpd: Well said... and so true.

Thanks to the Team of Eleven once again. Love you guys! :tu

[CasaDooley]

:l
I spend more time here then with my wife!:r

[ucla695]

Quality over quantity :tu

Thank you everyone, for making CA such a success. A home for friends and family.

:tpd:

:l

[Da Klugs]

where is the drum smiley?

:rd

Added it. :)

[G G]

It comes up no. 3 on my google as well and puff the majic dragon is after that so there.:tu Thanks friends for making this place what it is. I would have never got into cigars as much as I did if it weren't for the friendship here and have also made some lifetime friendships that even if you took cigars out of it (which we wont) they would still remain.

[markem]

It isn't a race.
It isn't a competition.
It is a bunch of like minded people sharing a hobby the way that they want to share it.

Let's not go and look down on others, whether they be other boards or smokers of other brands, marcas or sticks from different islands.

In the end, we are a band of brothers and sisters.

We just act like it more than some others.

[J0eybb]

woot

[Da Klugs]

:hy

:sw

Couple more new smilies just added.

[Mugen910]

I love it!

[elderboy02]

I love smilies!

:hy:rd:gn:banger:wo

[markem]

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp268/vstrommark/Humor/rofl.gif http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp268/vstrommark/Humor/Rofl_4c.gif :tt

[Da Klugs]

http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp268/vstrommark/Humor/rofl.gif http://i418.photobucket.com/albums/pp268/vstrommark/Humor/Rofl_4c.gif :tt

:lr added. :D

[stewshi]

How do you see all these smileys? This is by far my favorite site and also great since I can view it at work. Thanks to the 11

[smelvis]

I come in as two as well, I think the trick is total active users not just registered users.


#1 would be cool for me Evil grin LOL

[Steve]

:noon:wo

[newcigarz]

:dance:

[poker]

How do you see all these smileys? This is by far my favorite site and also great since I can view it at work. Thanks to the 11

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/misc.php?do=getsmilies&editorid=vB_Editor_001

[CigarNut]

Thanks to the TOE for making it all possible and making such a nice Home for us!

[CBI_2]

This place is literally indescribable. People can not comprehend this place and the wonderful inmates when you try to explain it to them.

[ToddziLLa]

Congrats team!

[jdakine]

:banger :dance ::l :dance ::wo :wo

Big Mahalo to all the Mods

[stitch]

Thanks to the "Team of 11" for making it possible :tu

[sobranie10]

The cigars are just our hobby it’s the friends that make this a community!
Thank you to the passionate team that made this happen:tu:tu:tu:l

[gorob23]

Thanks to everyone here at the Asylum. Cigar Asylum is coming up on our 2ed year in existence. We are also quickly approaching 1,000,000 posts as well.

A google search for Cigar Forums brings us in at #3


:tu:tu Thanks to everyone!!!



:l

Now if I just had FRICKING computer at home that worked :tf

Rob :tpd:

[hotreds]

Outstanding!

http://www.sportbikes.net/forums/images/smilies/smilieRR.gif

[elderboy02]

I love this place!

[E.J.]

I happened on this place almost exactly a year ago.... So pleased I did, it is really an amazing community.

A BIG thanks to the TOE and to the members of CA that make this place what it is....

[MajorCaptSilly]

A day without The Asylum is like......night. Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as knowledge, friendship, :noon, and an almost fanatical devotion to the TOE!

MCS

[Cigar_Noob]

Thanks to the 11
Alrighty, I need to know who the 11 where/are and why they are so loved :D -(P Sounds like there may be an interesting story behind it.

[Jbailey]

I can't say thank you enough to the TOE.

I've got the chance to meet some of the greatest people and honored to call them friends. The cigars are just perks.

:l


plus these are awesome. :tu
:hy:rd

[icehog3]

Alrighty, I need to know who the 11 where/are and why they are so loved :D -(P Sounds like there may be an interesting story behind it.

http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=14966 ;)

[DPD6030]

Thanks for making this great asylum for us BOTL/SOTL to reside at :tu

[357]

This place is literally indescribable. People can not comprehend this place and the wonderful inmates when you try to explain it to them.

I think this is what the TOE was trying to preserve two years ago. CA is like an extended family. Due to the mergers the feeling of family was quickly being watered down and on the brink of completely disappearing. You can't explain it outsiders. They have to experience it to understand.

It's kind of like Shack Herf. You can show pictures, list off attendees, the menu, the drinks, the activities, or even the amazing cigars that get passed around but, you still won't get it until you attend. It is CigarAsylum personified. Everything we love about CA only in person, face to face, and in a perfect setting.

Just my :2. Thanks again TOE,
Mike

[Chingas]

Many thanks to the ToE for my new family and to everyone here for all my new friendships. :tu

[HK3-]

Yippee! :noon

[68TriShield]

Sweet,thanks everyone! :)

[SmokeyJoe]

I posted this last year... and it is still true. :ss

Do you guys remember what it was like a year ago?

I was nearly despondent...
All the changes at our former home were frustrating at best... and infuriating at worst. I truly felt like something I had come to appreciate deeply had been irrevocably destroyed - and I was saddened by that. Accusations flew, friendships were strained... betrayals, and accusations of betrayals were rampant. My cherished little community was crumbling...

Then, all the mods left "en masse!" I wasn't sure what to think, but very soon I heard that 11 men that I trusted had decided the time had come to start a new forum. A difficut decision, I'm sure. Tons of work and criticism everywhere. But you 11 believed something of that incredible community could be salvaged.

You were right.

I probably sound foolish or melodramatic with my characterization of the Fall of 2008, but that is how I felt. I could say "thank you" for what you 11 men did, but truthfully? "Thank you" just doesn't begin to convey my gratitude.

I hope you all can derive some gratification and satisfaction from the number of folks who have made CA their on-line home. Not just CS expatriates, but the new folks who come here everyday and find the very best parts of what the jungle meant to us all.

Forgive the verbosity... I could have gone on for several more pages.

Please just know that you have made a huge positive impact in the life of a graying, chubby, novice cigar smoker in North Carolina - who thinks of you as family. Blessings on each of you.

[Da Klugs]

Its cool that so many people have chosen to make this a community through their participation and energy. I have always viewed the forum as "community owned". No active participants - no community. Those of us who were "Forum Software aware" got the ball rolling. Julian (MMBLZ) in particular is the reason this got off the ground technically. The TOE spent a couple weeks getting forums, rules, look and feel etc. set-up 2 years ago and continue to play janitor when there is a cleanup on aisle 3 issue. But, for the past 2 years everyone here has made it what it is.

Kudos to every member who contributes in their own unique way to make this place what it is. The 4680 rock! :D

[VTDragon]

I want to add my thanks to The Eleven. This is the only forum of any kind that I regularly visit and it is through their efforts that it exists.

[LasciviousXXX]

and an almost fanatical devotion to the TOE!


We appreciate the fanaticism :tu

Dave is correct, this forum is only as good as its members. And we're the best around :D

And Joe, thank you for your post

[markem]

Hey, I'm coming up on my anniversary. Anyone else? :noon :=: ;s

[SmokeyJoe]

Hey, I'm coming up on my anniversary. Anyone else? :noon :=: ;s

Wow... what a coincidence! Two years for me... what about you? ;)

[poker]

Hey, I'm coming up on my anniversary. Anyone else? :noon :=: ;s

:r

Silly man:D

[gorob23]

Alrighty, I need to know who the 11 where/are and why they are so loved :D -(P Sounds like there may be an interesting story behind it.

11.5 ;)

Rob :tpd:

[poker]

0.5 only counts if you can fix computers :)

silly man

[gorob23]

0.5 only counts if you can fix computers :)

silly man

it found the i p address :tf but still no internet....I am not done yet :r as I get older I find that I do enjoy life more :noon

Rob :tpd:

[kaisersozei]

:chr :hb :chr

[PeteSB75]

Good job TOE. We appreciate what you do in cultivating this community, both in giving it a place to live and in keeping it friendly and welcoming on an ongoing basis. :tu