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?

Al Gore invented the cigar measurement system and was instrumental in picking the size of the cigar used for his boss and Monica!

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?

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 ".

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

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/Aficionado/Archives/199412/fe1294.html 

Has anyone here ever heard of the term ... threadjacking!?!

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.

Did Al Gore invent Threadjacking? Charlie

Charlie:

If he didn't, it was another politician.

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?

England? Isn't our measurement system the English System?

I was misinformed.