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Mdp8903 Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 8:55 PM EST
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Sorry if I’m History-nerding up the forum, but I thought this might be an interesting topic:

Which President or historical figure would you most want to sit down and enjoy a cigar with?

My pick: Tough choice between John Adams, Churchill, or Ulysses S. Grant, but Grant gets the nod. Some of the stories he could share about the U.S.-Mexican & civil wars, and his relationship with Lincoln would be cool to hear. Plus his controversial presidency...
HuckFinn Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 8:58 PM EST
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Read Twain's autobiography. Great stories about his idol Grant.
DrafterX Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 9:02 PM EST
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Lincoln was a Democrat... Mellow
ZRX1200 Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 9:19 PM EST
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Woodrow Wilson in his early years......a good 5 minute herf.
bgz Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 9:29 PM EST
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Nikola Tesla... I'm sure his insights would be shocking.
Speyside Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 9:34 PM EST
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Good topic. So many truely amazing people. I think for me it would be Galileo Galileo. To be considered the father of modern science, and the persecution and captivity he went through. The stories he could tell would fascinate me.
Speyside Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 9:35 PM EST
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Darned spell check.
frankj1 Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Jul 10 2018, 10:51 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Lincoln was a Democrat... Mellow

trouble maker!
HuckFinn Offline
#9 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 9:31 AM EST
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José Orlando Padrón
MACS Offline
#10 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 10:06 AM EST
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Jesus of Nazareth.
tailgater Offline
#11 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 10:15 AM EST
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Was he the lead singer?
bgz Offline
#12 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 10:21 AM EST
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Speyside wrote:
Good topic. So many truely amazing people. I think for me it would be Galileo Galileo. To be considered the father of modern science, and the persecution and captivity he went through. The stories he could tell would fascinate me.


Good pick... Isaac Newton would be up there too.

Dude discovered calculus and invented the terminology for it that we've been using ever since...

Pure awesomeness.
SteveS Offline
#13 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 8:23 PM EST
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Easy choices for me ...

U.S. President - Thomas Jefferson
Historical Figure - Mark Twain
teedubbya Offline
#14 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 8:25 PM EST
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Ben Franklin or J. Edgar Hoover assuming Hoover had to tell all and wear something frilly.
frankj1 Offline
#15 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 9:22 PM EST
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the frilly? No problem.
tailgater Offline
#16 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 10:07 PM EST
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I would smoke a cigar with Camelot Kennedy.
Also with Bubba. But I'd bring my own.
frankj1 Offline
#17 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 10:11 PM EST
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wicked smaht
bgz Offline
#18 Posted: Wed, Jul 11 2018, 10:27 PM EST
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teedubbya wrote:
Ben Franklin or J. Edgar Hoover assuming Hoover had to tell all and wear something frilly.


I would like to go prowling for chicks with Big Ben.
KingoftheCove Offline
#19 Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2018, 1:44 AM EST
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Babe Ruth.
Couple of hot dogs and a few beers, then one or two good cigars
Talk baseball.
Buckwheat Offline
#20 Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2018, 1:22 PM EST
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Alexander the Great, Muhammad or Charlemagne. fog
DrafterX Offline
#21 Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2018, 2:40 PM EST
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Charlie's stuck in England... Mellow
JadeRose Offline
#22 Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2018, 2:45 PM EST
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CROS
delta1 Offline
#23 Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2018, 9:30 PM EST
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Hercules
frankj1 Offline
#24 Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2018, 10:11 PM EST
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Senor Wences
bs_kwaj Offline
#25 Posted: Thu, Jul 12 2018, 10:33 PM EST
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Bruno Kirby

"Sir, in my heart, I know I'm funny."

Beer
HuckFinn Offline
#26 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 7:49 AM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Lincoln was a Democrat... Mellow

And gay.
teedubbya Offline
#27 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 8:52 AM EST
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would anyone choose Caligula?
bgz Offline
#28 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 9:03 AM EST
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Nah, his brain was too fried on lead.
dstieger Offline
#29 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 2:51 PM EST
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I have never met Napoleon
But I plan to find the time
victor809 Offline
#30 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 3:06 PM EST
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Katherine the great.... Need a woman who can appreciate me. :)
RMAN4443 Offline
#31 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 3:48 PM EST
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dstieger wrote:
I have never met Napoleon
But I plan to find the time

short guy, always has his hand in his vest, rides a horse? I know that dude...Anxious
HuckFinn Offline
#32 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 4:38 PM EST
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Einstein and Van Gogh come to mind...
Twain, but he was famous for handing out the cheapest cigars he could buy...in barrels!
He joked somewhere that his guests would, for some unknown reason, claim they'd just quit smoking whenever he'd hand them out.

Be curious to see Jackson Pollock flick his ashes..
tailgater Offline
#33 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 8:35 PM EST
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HuckFinn wrote:
And gay.


Well he did sleep with that Todd dude...
tailgater Offline
#34 Posted: Fri, Jul 13 2018, 8:35 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Charlie's stuck in England... Mellow


Again?
Mr. Jones Offline
#35 Posted: Sun, Jul 15 2018, 12:44 PM EST
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Harry Truman....

my groups LEDER-KRANTZ GUY...

HE KNEW THE GOVERNMENT COULD NOT BE TRUSTED SO HE FORMED A VERY SMALL ELITE GROUP TO PRVENT MAJOR CATASTROPHES...EVEN "FALSE FLAGS" OR
COUP d'etats, corruption in congress, etc...

I think my reporting terrorists in Harrisburg , PA on 9-9-12 to the FBI, who tried to set off a dirty bomb but ( WAS STOPPED BY JSOC AND ELITE ARMY RANGERS and never told to the public) and their "RESPONSE" to my
illegal FBI-SSG GANGSTALKING PERSECUTION....
proves the existence of
The Truman Ghosts...The Original chosen, new Captains, Lieutenants and MILLENIAL associates.
HuckFinn Offline
#36 Posted: Sun, Jul 15 2018, 7:15 PM EST
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Hemingway and Churchill and of course Gertrude Stein
bikrtrsh Offline
#37 Posted: Sun, Jul 15 2018, 8:14 PM EST
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Definitely agree with bgz. Tesla for sure. (didn't he have an 80's rock band?)
And JFK because I heard he stocked up on some of those pre embargo cigars
bassman45 Offline
#38 Posted: Mon, Jul 16 2018, 3:57 AM EST
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RMAN4443 wrote:
short guy, always has his hand in his vest, rides a horse? I know that dude...Anxious


Never found out who designed his vest but I heard he had a hand in itAnxious
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