So Why did you join the Asylum?

[av8tor152d]

This guy showed up at my door one afternoon and kindly asked me to check it out.

[taltos]

Originally Posted by av8tor152d

This guy showed up at my door one afternoon and kindly asked me to check it out.

It was nice meeting you.

I joined the "other site" because a dude I met playing pool at a local dive told me I'd get a bunch of free cigars. I found it was far more than that and I stayed there because of the people and that's why I joined the Cigar Asylym and that's why I'll stay here now.

Uhm, well OK that and Medication Time!

[TripleF]

Because this is where my family is.

[Heliofire]

I came here because I knew this was where my friends were.

[Starscream]

I got the invite and I joined. The morale at CS at the time was very depressing, and the Asylum was a ray of light in that dark time. I still post at CS, but consider this place home now.

[poker]

Why did I join the Asylum?

In not so many words....


....It was something that needed to be done, and something I chose to be a part of.

[Texan in Mexico]

I came seeking asylum...

As corny as that sounds, it became uncomfortable at the other place. I still check in from time to time but I feel the "knowledge" is here.

I am passionate about what I do and between the 11, the 12th and an occasional thread about cake - I fit in here honestly.

I really hope to hit the Shack Herf or Ybor in '09 - it would be great to shake some hands...

[stitch]

Well, Papajohn67 is the point man, I was just keepin my head low and following him.... Next thing I know I look up and we've left the jungle and landed in a nut house ....

The little voices told me too.

[adam7476]

I was invited and love smoking a good stogie.

[Mr Edmundo]

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Originally Posted by av8tor152d

This guy showed up at my door one afternoon and kindly asked me to check it out.

That's too funny. I wouldn't mess with this guy either.

I joined after hearing about it on the stogie review, I used to belong to 3 other forum sites, 2 of them got incorporated into pvff.com and the other I don't use as much after having a bad trade, just left a bad taste for me so I pretty much walked away.

Hoping this is my new home away from home.

[hotreds]

Originally Posted by av8tor152d

This guy showed up at my door one afternoon and kindly asked me to check it out.

As long a it was "kindly!"

i dont know lol .... i love it tho

[Da Klugs]

To everyones great credit we've pretty much avoided these types of CS conversations here.

The easy answer, for me is...Julian sent me an email with a link saying it was working.... so I signed up.

The harder answer is ...the future, as some have commented, was presented to us to be commercial and part of some sort of homogenized amalgamation of 3-4 different cigar cultures who's only enhanced purpose I could figure out was .... well it wasn't what brought so many together there. It's like the local bar you have hung out at, made friends and called home for a long time. It changes ownership to "consolidated bars" and you start enjoying it less for whatever reason even before the remodel. Your friends start drifting away to other places to hang out. The vibe of the place gets worse. What do you do? This place was the answer to that question for a number of us.

These on line communities are cool. They exist because folks "choose" to make them home. They can just as easily die based upon people making different choices based upon real or perceived changes in their hangouts.

Everyone joins, posts, reads, interacts. decides to set-up shop, wherever you feel comfortable. There are many cigar forums to choose from. There are folks scratching their heads about this place springing up from nowhere. I'm one of them.

[brigey57]

Originally Posted by Da Klugs

To everyones great credit we've pretty much avoided these types of CS conversations here.

The easy answer, for me is...Julian sent me an email with a link saying it was working.... so I signed up.

The harder answer is ...the future, as some have commented, was presented to us to be commercial and part of some sort of homogenized amalgamation of 3-4 different cigar cultures who's only enhanced purpose I could figure out was .... well it wasn't what brought so many together there. It's like the local bar you have hung out at, made friends and called home for a long time. It changes ownership to "consolidated bars" and you start enjoying it less for whatever reason even before the remodel. Your friends start drifting away to other places to hang out. The vibe of the place gets worse. What do you do? This place was the answer to that question for a number of us.

These on line communities are cool. They exist because folks "choose" to make them home. They can just as easily die based upon people making different choices based upon real or perceived changes in their hangouts.

Everyone joins, posts, reads, interacts. decides to set-up shop, wherever you feel comfortable. There are many cigar forums to choose from. There are folks scratching their heads about this place springing up from nowhere. I'm one of them.

Honestly, I couldn't have said it better. Thanks.

[brigey57]

Originally Posted by av8tor152d

This guy showed up at my door one afternoon and kindly asked me to check it out.

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W.O.L.F. pack member since 2002

Well, this beautiful woman shows up at my door one evening and tenderly asked me to check it out. So who do you listen to?

Originally Posted by brigey57

Well, this beautiful woman shows up at my door one evening and tenderly asked me to check it out. So who do you listen to?

Glad to see my girlfriend made it over to extend the invite, Brian!

Jason

[Whee]

The jackets are better here.

And everyone who I look up to, respect, crack jokes about, get cuffed on the back of the head by all chose to make this their home base, so I did too.