Here is a pic of my noob trade with Educatedbusboy. Inside the box was:

Nestor

VS Aero

CAO MX2

Pepin JJ maddie

Graycliff blue

Unbanded

Padron maduro

RP 90

CI Legends purple

5 Vegas A

Talenga Valley Selection

Tierra del Sol

Petrus

REO

PAM 1964.

Also included were 2 key chains (that I left on the coffee table instead of putting in the picture), a multitool that is the perfect size, the Fuente DVD, and four handmade beads that I am sure I can glue together to make one (very small) crack pipe. EBB was also somehow aware that My dad always said that I didn't know SFS. So, he sent me a handy dandy identification kit with shoe polish and a rubber dog turd. I will never be confused again. Unfortunately, the post office destroyed the unbanded stick. Everything else arrived in pristine condition. May have to break out the pipe for the broken one. Thank you brother. Yours will be coming Friday. Dig in (fair warning).

Andy

That rubber dog turd is a a keeper...

sorry the unbanded one didn't make it ! would have been an "interesting smoke ". i'm glad that you now know... **** from shinola ! very few left that even remember their fathers or grandpas telling them that !!! enjoy ...i did !!

i didn't see the bottle of BBQ sause with the pig smoking the cigar on the label ? hope it didn't break!?

educatedbusboy, I heard it like this from my dad many years ago, may he rest in peace.

"Did you hear about the Indian who didn't know **** from Shinola? You shoulda seen his moccasins!"

It still makes me laugh.

Educatedbusboy -

I can answer about the bbq sauce. It was open and in the fridge - Beez forgot to pull it out for the pic! Awesome stuff! It even impressed Beez Jr. - our resident BBQ sauce junkie! (He says bbq sauce goes well on EVERYTHING, with the possible exception of chocolate chip cookies and waffles!)

He left out the beads, too, so maybe we'll need to do a secondary pic of all the stuff that Beez forgot to put in! Or maybe he just should have asked me in the first place....lol!

Tammy

mrs BeeZ

no need for a follow up pic i just worried that it had broken open & ruined the treasures ! enjoy, i didn't know it was good just picked it up cause the cigar smoking pig on the label !!

ps the beads are african trade beads

"Unfortunately, the post office destroyed the unbanded stick."

^ Really? never had that happen before... bastards...

"Unfortunately, the post office destroyed the unbanded stick."

What is this all about???...true or fiction???

If you look closely at the photo, the unbanded/uncello-ed stick is pretty hashed. I don't know what happened to it, but it didn't fare well on it's journey. Everything else in the baggie was in beautiful condition when Beez unpacked. Could've been a delicate, unprotected wrapper & got banged by something in the box when it got jostled around - who knows.

We've had bad luck with our local post office delivering or returning damaged stuff to us this last bit. We get flattened, torn, crushed boxes, shredded magazines, you name it. The last package I sent out at our distribution center had a bottle of vodka in it - big, thick decorative glass container and packed up in bubble wrap and brown paper. It made it to SLC, they said, then was returned because it was "leaking an unknown substance." Thank goodness most was absorbed by the paper and they bought the story about it being a busted snowglobe from Yellowstone. The box was soggy and damn near flat. Could've been the post office handlers, or it could have been American Airlines. Either way, nowadays I go FedEx whenever I can.

Tammy

maybe a reason for cello on? lol

I misinterpreted the phrase.. I thought the PO actually opened the box..

^ same here Drafter..i thought PO had opened and intensionaly destroyed the unbanded stick...was about to get my panties in a wad...

A chocolate pretzel???

I have learned something today. I now know what Shinola is. Thanks you.