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WALDORF: They aren’t half bad.
STATLER: Nope, they’re ALL bad!


STATLER: I wonder if there really is life on another planet.
WALDORF: Why do you care? You don’t have a life on this one?

WALDORF: What’s all the commotion about?
STATLER: Waldorf, the bunny ran away!
WALDORF: Well, you know what that makes him -
BOTH: Smarter than us!

Statler: Well, that was different.
Waldorf: Yep. Lousy...
Both: ...but different!

Statler: Wake up you old fool. You slept through the show.
Waldorf: Who's a fool? You watched it.

S: I like the steel Drums!

W: What?!?

S: THE PIGS' STEEL DRUMS!!!

W: I beleive it! They'll take anything that isn't bolted down!

S: Is your hearing aid fixed?
W: No.
S: Then how do you know what I'm saying?
W: I don't!
S: Oh. (does double take)

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:r:r:r

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I'm only on page 16 of this thread. I'll leave this here as a placeholder in case this gets locked before I finish. Thanks for pointing this out to me, Dave!

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Why would this get locked? :r

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Just when I thought I was out....Tom pulled me back in. :r

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Getting closer to 1000.

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Who left the door open? I thought this one had died finally.

:hf

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who the hell bumped this thing???

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That'd be me. I'm up to page 29 now... it's really getting good!

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If your reading this entire mess you need a life. :D

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looking at this is like looking at a bad accident. you really do not want to look but you have to.

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Oh, I beg to differ. I just finished it and I can't tell you the number of "life lessons" that I think I just picked up :)

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Oh do tell!

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OK.

Update: Due to business(good thing) I am canceling the tour to Don Pepin factory in May(bad thing). However, I will go sometime, it's just not feasible right now, have at least 2 national Clients trying my business out and need to make sure everything goes perfect for a while.

This Friday I did speak with don Pepin at the event at Zarka's. don Is a very nice soft spoken guy, no English, I did my best with the 4 years I took of Spanish and a translator. Don said while others may provide a slightly higher quality to the Smaller shops, It's not something done at his factory, he refuses even to produce 2nds. Anything that is not up to quality is cut up and used in short filler production.

So that's it for now, will have to check in with some of the other factories when i can.

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:r:r:r

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Funny

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no matter how you phrase it, it is fortunate you didn't meet a chaveta.

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Interesting. I'm not saying you're right or wrong. You've got a lot more experience at this than I have. But one thought comes to mind. Your conjecture, if I draw it out to it's logical conclusion, is that Rocky, Nestor, Nick, etc., keep two stocks of the same cigar; one for the big internet shops, and another, the superior cigar, for the B&M. Personally, I doubt that would last for very long without being "found out." There's too many well informed people in this hobby to keep something like that secret. I think the care, storage & aging scenario is far more plausible.