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Palama Offline
#51 Posted: Sat, Aug 26 2023, 10:32 PM EST
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Love the ability to hide someone’s posts.
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#52 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 7:47 AM EST
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Palama wrote:
Love the ability to hide someone’s posts.


agreed. Applause
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#53 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 8:35 AM EST
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I see your guys' names, but nothing being said.

Weird
rfenst Online
#54 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 9:32 AM EST
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Frank, I f you want a box of Fuente Hemingway and want me to pick it up for you directly from Fuente in Ybor City, LMK. We don't have a tobacco tax here. I'll probably be going there within the next two weeks...
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#55 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 12:28 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Frank, I f you want a box of Fuente Hemingway and want me to pick it up for you directly from Fuente in Ybor City, LMK. We don't have a tobacco tax here. I'll probably be going there within the next two weeks...

I'll call you before I do anything...thanks.

edit: I guess this would make you my...sweetheart!
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#56 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 3:47 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
I'll call you before I do anything...thanks.

edit: I guess this would make you my...sweetheart!

Forever and ever.
And, I caught that too, my love.
Palama Offline
#57 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 4:19 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
I'll call you before I do anything...thanks.

edit: I guess this would make you my...sweetheart!


rfenst wrote:
Forever and ever.
And, I caught that too, my love.



OMGosh! Get a room! d'oh!















Laugh
corey sellers Offline
#58 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 4:21 PM EST
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Be careful Fenster he is not called the tripod for no reason
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#59 Posted: Sun, Aug 27 2023, 5:42 PM EST
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I’m green.

Classy offer rfenster!
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#60 Posted: Fri, Sep 29 2023, 4:02 PM EST
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...aaaaand we're all done here!

Purchased from the sweethearts in Tampa.
Arrived yesterday afternoon, UPS.
Paid for by you knuckleheads.

A beautiful box of Best Seller Maduro, and enough money left over to not only get over the free shipping minimum, but to also get a fiver of MagR 44 RSG for me!
A nice handwritten note signed by Arturo Jr with his best wishes for our daughter and the families, and telling us to "enjoy these fine cigars in the Hemingway House in Key West!" was also in the package. Cool.

It's the kinda story you can't make up, the kind that proves that truth is stranger than fiction....and magic happens here.

I still can't believe how crazy this is! We are in a tough time of year and what youse guys have done helps so much. I'm humbled and indebted to you, obviously Jamie, and all youse guys, those that donated for sure, but also those who followed and supported this insanity.

Just...

thanks
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#61 Posted: Fri, Sep 29 2023, 4:33 PM EST
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Why the hell didn't I donate..?? WTF..?? Think

Glad it all worked out tho... Herfing
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#62 Posted: Fri, Sep 29 2023, 6:03 PM EST
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That is magical. Love it.
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#63 Posted: Fri, Sep 29 2023, 9:05 PM EST
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Because you’re a jerk Drafter…..at least that’s what Axl wrote. Mellow

Fuente family are top notch folks, it’s not an act.

Final add ons acquired today so Naplam’s package gets sent Monday.
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#64 Posted: Fri, Sep 29 2023, 9:25 PM EST
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Napalm is a dink
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#65 Posted: Sat, Sep 30 2023, 12:58 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
A nice handwritten note signed by Arturo Jr with his best wishes for our daughter and the families, and telling us to "enjoy these fine cigars in the Hemingway House in Key West!" was also in the package. Cool.

He and the rest of the family are very menschey.

I became really friendly with them over the years. They gave HockeyDad, JOJOC and I a private tour of their office and showed us photos of the entire family's industry and history, and explained why they have such long-term relationships with Holt's, J.C. Newman and one other tribe family.

One family was their marketing agent and the other was their financier. Their subsequent children have also intermarried with those three families and the whole story about their emphasis on family and integrity is just amazing.

When I asked them what the rarest cigars they could sell me would be, they went back into the warehouse for like ten minutes and found me two 2005 (I think) Forbidden X Laceros that I sent to Slimboli. They also gave me a Forbiden X hat and Opus X slippers. LOL
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#66 Posted: Sat, Sep 30 2023, 1:57 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
He and the rest of the family are very menschey.

I became really friendly with them over the years. They gave HockeyDad, JOJOC and I a private tour of their office and showed us photos of the entire family's industry and history, and explained why they have such long-term relationships with Holt's, J.C. Newman and one other tribe family.

One family was their marketing agent and the other was their financier. Their subsequent children have also intermarried with those three families and the whole story about their emphasis on family and integrity is just amazing.

When I asked them what the rarest cigars they could sell me would be, they went back into the warehouse for like ten minutes and found me two 2005 (I think) Forbidden X Laceros that I sent to Slimboli. They also gave me a Forbiden X hat and Opus X slippers. LOL


Very cool!

Iffin’ I ever get to Florida, TS will be one of the places I’d love to go to.
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#67 Posted: Sat, Sep 30 2023, 6:45 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
He and the rest of the family are very menschey.

I became really friendly with them over the years. They gave HockeyDad, JOJOC and I a private tour of their office and showed us photos of the entire family's industry and history, and explained why they have such long-term relationships with Holt's, J.C. Newman and one other tribe family.

One family was their marketing agent and the other was their financier. Their subsequent children have also intermarried with those three families and the whole story about their emphasis on family and integrity is just amazing.

When I asked them what the rarest cigars they could sell me would be, they went back into the warehouse for like ten minutes and found me two 2005 (I think) Forbidden X Laceros that I sent to Slimboli. They also gave me a Forbiden X hat and Opus X slippers. LOL

was Mike's the third tribe family?

And thanks for your offer but thy didn't charge tax anyway.

Spoke with a guy named David (I think) from the retail shop who took the order, told me Arturo was out of town but that he'd pass along the Key West/Hemingway House wedding story...which it appears he did.
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#68 Posted: Sun, Oct 1 2023, 12:10 AM EST
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It was, in fact ,the family that owns Holt's.
can tell you a similar story about the Mikes schmoozers...
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#69 Posted: Mon, Oct 2 2023, 1:50 PM EST
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heartwarming story, Frank...so glad the ending was a happy one...

now here's hoping we can extend the magic to the ceremony...and then to the marital bliss afterward...
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#70 Posted: Wed, Oct 4 2023, 4:10 PM EST
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Who doesn’t like a happy ending?
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#71 Posted: Thu, Oct 5 2023, 6:33 PM EST
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Hats off to you, Z...well done
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#72 Posted: Wed, Nov 8 2023, 10:18 PM EST
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reposted from the Frankie Tripod thread in the trades section...


98.2% of the box of Hemingway Best Seller Maduro are packed and will get on a plane with me early tomorrow morning...Destination Key West.
Thanks all for the love, and the laughs.

Thank you, Jamie. You've created a story that will be told to family and friends for years to come.
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#73 Posted: Thu, Nov 9 2023, 7:09 AM EST
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See you there.. Beer
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#74 Posted: Sat, Nov 11 2023, 2:00 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
reposted from the Frankie Tripod thread in the trades section...


98.2% of the box of Hemingway Best Seller Maduro are packed and will get on a plane with me early tomorrow Herfing morning...Destination Key West.
Thanks all for the love, and the laughs.

Thank you, Jamie. You've created a story that will be told to family and friends for years to come.


When you write your autobiography, the CBid chapter will probably be the longest.
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#75 Posted: Sat, Nov 11 2023, 10:46 PM EST
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I thought his biggest chapter would involve his Bris….just by sure volume and the “Oohs” and “Ahhs” of the amazed attendees, and of course the volume of trimmings.
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#76 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2023, 1:44 PM EST
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guess i missed some funny stuff...HA!

here's a copy of what I just posted on the Tripod thread in the trades forum:


Got home last Thursday night, been very preoccupied with stuff but felt I needed to let all know ho well the cigar part of the wedding went...it was a yuuuuuggggge success!

As I assumed, the folks at the Hemingway House and Museum encourage cigar smoking during events, they ask only that we not leave the cigar butts around the grounds as the many cats that call it home would get at them. Easy enough to comply.

So the groomsmen, all between 33 and 37 years of age, included a few who were fairly well seasoned at this passion we share, yet even most of them were unaware of the Fuente/Hemingway connection, or at least had never smoked them. It was pretty cool talking with them as we puffed away, they were politely attentive to my pre-light suggestions, thought the "nipple" foot amazing, peppered me with questions, and all that were smoked on site burned very well. One guy took my talk of long ash to an extreme and his ash reached past where the (removed) label would be.

I had placed a large 65 Boveda inside the box, placed the box and a few other Bovedas in a zip lock freezer bag, placed the bag in a dresser drawer of an unused bedroom at home, and there they stayed since I received them...and they were in primo smoking condition the night of the wedding. Could not have worked out better.

Youse guys are the bestest! Can't evah thank you enough.
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