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tailgater Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2002, 7:06 PM EST
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Hey! What is the origin of the ring guage scale? I know each number is 1/64th of an inch, but who started it? Aren't most cigar making countries using the metric system? Shouldn't the ring guage be in mm or something? What gives?
Todog Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2002, 8:27 PM EST
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Al Gore invented the cigar measurement system and was instrumental in picking the size of the cigar used for his boss and Monica!
jjohnson28 Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Mar 26 2002, 11:05 PM EST
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Live with it Joe.We all know how much most/or at least a lot of other countries hate us.Funny how they would give us credit for ring gauge though. Hmmmmmmmmmm?
JonR Offline
#4 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2002, 4:31 AM EST
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Al Gore made a public apperance the other day and a reporter asked him what happened to his beard, Al said "I removed it through a new process I invented I call it shaving ".
Charlie Offline
#5 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2002, 9:43 AM EST
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Speaking of Al Gore, I understand he also nicknamed the CVN-71 Teddy Roosevelt as "The Big Stick"! My, how that great inventor gets around! Charlie
mhollowa Offline
#6 Posted: Wed, Mar 27 2002, 11:23 AM EST
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See http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/Aficionado/Archives/199412/fe1294.html
Slimboli Offline
#7 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2002, 3:29 AM EST
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Has anyone here ever heard of the term ... threadjacking!?!
mhollowa Offline
#8 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2002, 5:21 AM EST
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Slimboli: references to "threadjacking" seem to point to a misunderstanding between speaker and listener, a miscommunication. Tailgater's thread is about cigar ring guage: where from, how and why.
Charlie Offline
#9 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2002, 5:37 AM EST
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Did Al Gore invent Threadjacking? Charlie
mhollowa Offline
#10 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2002, 6:41 AM EST
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Charlie:
If he didn't, it was another politician.
eleltea Offline
#11 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2002, 7:08 AM EST
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England and Ireland are on metric, but at the pub, they drink their pint. Who the hell is going to order 0.568245 litres of ale?
tailgater Offline
#12 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2002, 5:00 PM EST
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England? Isn't our measurement system the English System?
eleltea Offline
#13 Posted: Thu, Mar 28 2002, 6:15 PM EST
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I was misinformed.
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