As much as I would really like Tony to reply to your post. He isn't going to. He passed away after a traffic accident. He lost his wife (at impact) and he was in critical for quite some time. Tony was an amazing brother that helped propel the giving you see here on these boards.

RIP Tony.

This is 2012. You said you smoked 450 cigar lines THIS year. That would mean since 1/1/2012. What you meant to say was that you smoked 450 cigar lines in the PAST year (since January '11.) Got it?

.......very sad. I am sure he was a decent fellow.

He was a very generous BOTL and it was my pleasure to have known him. Our conversations through email were something that I'll always remember fondly about this site. His death had this site mourning. Others took his dream and ran with it BIGTIME!

This is a very special plcae on the interwebs.

Oh, sure we joke and kid and the jackassery runs rampant but we celebrate births, weddings, mourn family/pets passing, help out when natural disasters hit and just about everything inbetween.

This place is BONE-A-FIDE.

Stick around.

Pretty cool to see SteveR's posts too, although I get to read his antics elsewhere

BTW, my vote is for Thomas Hinds. What a piece of sh#t they were, all three of them

Haha...funny!

+1 Tony sounds like he was a great guy!!

My yuck vote goes for PI's

cant believe edited even tho sold here

Best cigar with bad flaw------Gran Habano 2002. Bought a box from CBID and the Sticks were all so tightly banded that they had a quarter inch indent the shape of the band. Barely serviceable as they eventually developed major wrapper issues.

Yes mad props to Tony for starting OpFTH along with smitty22

RIP Tony

LFMFAO. I thought I was the only sucker who'd ever bought those sub-dogrocket turds. They were indeed horrific. The "tobacco" was weirdly discolored, looked like moldy, dried maple leaves and the taste was unmentionable. These are what I would imagine POW's in Japanese slave labor camps in WWII would be reduced to smoking. George Hamilton should be forced to smoke whatever supply of them remains.

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Probably tastes like some weed I sold back in the day.

I've never even heard of most of these blends and I thought I sampled just about everything. As far as a well known cigar maker the WORST stogie I can recall where ALL 5 were horrible was the CARLOS TORANO NOVENTA MADURO TORPEDO (6.5" x 54). Horrible draw on all, horrible one sided burn down to half way through on all, and totally NO FLAVOR whatsoever. It was HORRIBLE.

It surpassed the original WORST blend I smoked from which was the PLEIADES 'CRUZEROS' CONNECTICUT ALDEBRAN (8.5" x 50) way back when. Was labeled 'Cruzeros" but was supposed to be Pleiades of France. It tasted like rotting, moldy, damp tobacco.

As far as CURRENT GARBAGE offered here that I have wasted $ on are Gran Habano Vintage 2006, Rocky Patel Cargo, Puros Indios Viejo, and Gurkha Park Avenue Habano. All offer generic crappy flavor. 🤬 🤬 🤬

You know the stick is a piece of dog schitt when the desc writeup starts with something along the lines of, "Look, this cigar ain't gonna win any awards anytime soon, and it ain't high tea at the Ritz, BUT..." followed by words like "knockaround", "serviceable", "everyday", etc.

Translation to English: "This is garbage.""

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