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tailgater
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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?
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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!
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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?
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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 ".
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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
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Wed, Mar 27 2002, 11:23 AM EST
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See http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/Aficionado/Archives/199412/fe1294.html
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Thu, Mar 28 2002, 3:29 AM EST
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Has anyone here ever heard of the term ... threadjacking!?!
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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.
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Thu, Mar 28 2002, 5:37 AM EST
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Did Al Gore invent Threadjacking? Charlie
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Thu, Mar 28 2002, 6:41 AM EST
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Charlie:
If he didn't, it was another politician.
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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?
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Thu, Mar 28 2002, 5:00 PM EST
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England? Isn't our measurement system the English System?
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Thu, Mar 28 2002, 6:15 PM EST
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I was misinformed.
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