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KriegKrieg Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,068
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Has anyone been to CA's Big Smoke in Vegas? If so, what did you think of it??
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  • phobicsquirrelphobicsquirrel Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 7,349
    My wife and I thought about going, but someone on here said some things about it that made me re-think it. It's still appealing though, but I'd rather go to SDCC or something.... Plus it would be really spendy it's like 500 a ticket and though I would like to meet the blenders and what-not I can't really justify the price, I mean I could spend 500 dollars, 1000 (for both of us) on cigars that I know I like, hell that would buy my humi, and a few more boxes... lol
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  • KriegKrieg Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,068
    it's 500 if you buy a ticket for both days, only $240 for the seminar and big smoke event.
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  • LasabarLasabar Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,457
    I still think that I wouldn't want to be there...

    Not that I have anything against CA but I can just picture all the people there and the way there magazine has a rolex and every other expensive thing advertised every other page that there would be some TRUE BOTL and some TURD BOTL...

    Go watch the movie on their website about them smoking "Aged Cigars" and they have 4 brands that aren't made anymore ranging in 6-15 years old and not only do they just stick a flame in the cigar's craw and suck away, but they also smoke 2" of the first 2 brands and then light up the other two just torching and sucking...

    Now, I'm not a senior editor or anything, but when you have a cigar that is out of production and 15 years old, you treat that thing better than your kids, not like a step-child and you DON'T smoke all four at once! How can you taste the subtle flavors???

    I've checked the CA forums from time to time and they have some good content but I just can't be at an event where there will likely be men and women smoking $50 cigars chewing on the end and thinking they are a status symbol and then claiming how "GREAT THE CIGAR I JUST HAD WAS!!! I THINK IT WAS AN OPUS TEN... I DUNNO, BUT BOY WAS IT EXPENSIVE!!!"
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  • PuroFreakPuroFreak Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,132
    Lasabar:
    I still think that I wouldn't want to be there...

    Not that I have anything against CA but I can just picture all the people there and the way there magazine has a rolex and every other expensive thing advertised every other page that there would be some TRUE BOTL and some TURD BOTL...

    Go watch the movie on their website about them smoking "Aged Cigars" and they have 4 brands that aren't made anymore ranging in 6-15 years old and not only do they just stick a flame in the cigar's craw and suck away, but they also smoke 2" of the first 2 brands and then light up the other two just torching and sucking...

    Now, I'm not a senior editor or anything, but when you have a cigar that is out of production and 15 years old, you treat that thing better than your kids, not like a step-child and you DON'T smoke all four at once! How can you taste the subtle flavors???

    I've checked the CA forums from time to time and they have some good content but I just can't be at an event where there will likely be men and women smoking $50 cigars chewing on the end and thinking they are a status symbol and then claiming how "GREAT THE CIGAR I JUST HAD WAS!!! I THINK IT WAS AN OPUS TEN... I DUNNO, BUT BOY WAS IT EXPENSIVE!!!"
    WOW AN OPUS TEN??? WHERE CAN YOU GET ONE OF THOSE?? I GOTTA TRY ONE IF THEY ARE THAT EXPENSIVE!!! lol
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  • LasabarLasabar Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,457
    PuroFreak:
    Lasabar:
    I still think that I wouldn't want to be there...

    Not that I have anything against CA but I can just picture all the people there and the way there magazine has a rolex and every other expensive thing advertised every other page that there would be some TRUE BOTL and some TURD BOTL...

    Go watch the movie on their website about them smoking "Aged Cigars" and they have 4 brands that aren't made anymore ranging in 6-15 years old and not only do they just stick a flame in the cigar's craw and suck away, but they also smoke 2" of the first 2 brands and then light up the other two just torching and sucking...

    Now, I'm not a senior editor or anything, but when you have a cigar that is out of production and 15 years old, you treat that thing better than your kids, not like a step-child and you DON'T smoke all four at once! How can you taste the subtle flavors???

    I've checked the CA forums from time to time and they have some good content but I just can't be at an event where there will likely be men and women smoking $50 cigars chewing on the end and thinking they are a status symbol and then claiming how "GREAT THE CIGAR I JUST HAD WAS!!! I THINK IT WAS AN OPUS TEN... I DUNNO, BUT BOY WAS IT EXPENSIVE!!!"
    WOW AN OPUS TEN??? WHERE CAN YOU GET ONE OF THOSE?? I GOTTA TRY ONE IF THEY ARE THAT EXPENSIVE!!! lol
    Sorry... Can't help you, I got a guy on the inside, it's the same guy that gets me my Cubans from Europe... He doesn't like it when I talk about him... ya know "Can't give out sources"
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  • PuroFreakPuroFreak Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,132
    Lasabar:
    PuroFreak:
    Lasabar:
    I still think that I wouldn't want to be there...

    Not that I have anything against CA but I can just picture all the people there and the way there magazine has a rolex and every other expensive thing advertised every other page that there would be some TRUE BOTL and some TURD BOTL...

    Go watch the movie on their website about them smoking "Aged Cigars" and they have 4 brands that aren't made anymore ranging in 6-15 years old and not only do they just stick a flame in the cigar's craw and suck away, but they also smoke 2" of the first 2 brands and then light up the other two just torching and sucking...

    Now, I'm not a senior editor or anything, but when you have a cigar that is out of production and 15 years old, you treat that thing better than your kids, not like a step-child and you DON'T smoke all four at once! How can you taste the subtle flavors???

    I've checked the CA forums from time to time and they have some good content but I just can't be at an event where there will likely be men and women smoking $50 cigars chewing on the end and thinking they are a status symbol and then claiming how "GREAT THE CIGAR I JUST HAD WAS!!! I THINK IT WAS AN OPUS TEN... I DUNNO, BUT BOY WAS IT EXPENSIVE!!!"
    WOW AN OPUS TEN??? WHERE CAN YOU GET ONE OF THOSE?? I GOTTA TRY ONE IF THEY ARE THAT EXPENSIVE!!! lol
    Sorry... Can't help you, I got a guy on the inside, it's the same guy that gets me my Cubans from Europe... He doesn't like it when I talk about him... ya know "Can't give out sources"
    Damn... You just ruined my day Lassy... B*tch
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  • FourtotheflushFourtotheflush Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,555
    I am going to fly to europe just to buy som opus 10.
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  • phobicsquirrelphobicsquirrel Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 7,349
    not as good as the 12...
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  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    phobicsquirrel:
    not as good as the 12...
    Obviously you know nothing...not surprising since you are merely a cigar.com forum member. The Opus gets better as the number goes down, a truly amateur mistake and one I'd expect to find on such a forum. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got an Opus One that I've been using as a doorstop for 12 years, it will be momentous, certainly.
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  • cabinetmakercabinetmaker Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,561
    They are best if you bite the cap off, prior to lighting with a zippo.
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  • forgetfulrobotforgetfulrobot Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 40
    I find that dipping the end of the cigar in lighter fluid and then lighting with burning plastic really brings out the flavor. Just my two cents. You'll have to excuse me, my personal helicopter just landed. Ciao
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  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    forgetfulrobot:
    I find that dipping the end of the cigar in lighter fluid and then lighting with burning plastic really brings out the flavor. Just my two cents. You'll have to excuse me, my personal helicopter just landed. Ciao
    If you tie one of your cigars on the skid of the helicopter, it really takes on a great flavor of atmosphere, I never fly anywhere in my twin engine Cessna without hooking at least a few Opus Ones on the fuselage.
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  • LasabarLasabar Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,457
    j0z3r:
    forgetfulrobot:
    I find that dipping the end of the cigar in lighter fluid and then lighting with burning plastic really brings out the flavor. Just my two cents. You'll have to excuse me, my personal helicopter just landed. Ciao
    If you tie one of your cigars on the skid of the helicopter, it really takes on a great flavor of atmosphere, I never fly anywhere in my twin engine Cessna without hooking at least a few Opus Ones on the fuselage.
    You bitches still use helicopters and *Yaaaaaaawn* planes???

    Try smoking a Opus null that is humidified by the sweat of your own personal honduran boy that carries you everywhere... THAT IS LIVING!
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  • j0z3rj0z3r Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 9,403
    Lasabar:
    j0z3r:
    forgetfulrobot:
    I find that dipping the end of the cigar in lighter fluid and then lighting with burning plastic really brings out the flavor. Just my two cents. You'll have to excuse me, my personal helicopter just landed. Ciao
    If you tie one of your cigars on the skid of the helicopter, it really takes on a great flavor of atmosphere, I never fly anywhere in my twin engine Cessna without hooking at least a few Opus Ones on the fuselage.
    You bitches still use helicopters and *Yaaaaaaawn* planes???

    Try smoking a Opus null that is humidified by the sweat of your own personal honduran boy that carries you everywhere... THAT IS LIVING!
    What are you, one of those snooty, holier-than-thou cigar smokers? No thanks pal, we're trying to keep it real around here.
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  • LasabarLasabar Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 4,457
    j0z3r:
    Lasabar:
    j0z3r:
    forgetfulrobot:
    I find that dipping the end of the cigar in lighter fluid and then lighting with burning plastic really brings out the flavor. Just my two cents. You'll have to excuse me, my personal helicopter just landed. Ciao
    If you tie one of your cigars on the skid of the helicopter, it really takes on a great flavor of atmosphere, I never fly anywhere in my twin engine Cessna without hooking at least a few Opus Ones on the fuselage.
    You bitches still use helicopters and *Yaaaaaaawn* planes???

    Try smoking a Opus null that is humidified by the sweat of your own personal honduran boy that carries you everywhere... THAT IS LIVING!
    What are you, one of those snooty, holier-than-thou cigar smokers? No thanks pal, we're trying to keep it real around here.
    I'm not snooty.... I'M AN AFICIONADO!!!!!
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  • KriegKrieg Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,068
    Wow...talk about hijacking a thread...if I knew no one would have taken my post seriously, I wouldn't have asked the question.
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  • gmill880gmill880 Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,947
    don't take it personal Kreig that happens around here time to time
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  • FourtotheflushFourtotheflush Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,555
    Lasabar:
    j0z3r:
    Lasabar:
    j0z3r:
    forgetfulrobot:
    I find that dipping the end of the cigar in lighter fluid and then lighting with burning plastic really brings out the flavor. Just my two cents. You'll have to excuse me, my personal helicopter just landed. Ciao
    If you tie one of your cigars on the skid of the helicopter, it really takes on a great flavor of atmosphere, I never fly anywhere in my twin engine Cessna without hooking at least a few Opus Ones on the fuselage.
    You bitches still use helicopters and *Yaaaaaaawn* planes???

    Try smoking a Opus null that is humidified by the sweat of your own personal honduran boy that carries you everywhere... THAT IS LIVING!
    What are you, one of those snooty, holier-than-thou cigar smokers? No thanks pal, we're trying to keep it real around here.
    I'm not snooty.... I'M AN AFICIONADO!!!!!


    Someone referred to me as and "aficianado" the other day! I nearly spit up my drink. I though it was pretty funny.




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  • FourtotheflushFourtotheflush Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 2,555
    Krieg:
    Wow...talk about hijacking a thread...if I knew no one would have taken my post seriously, I wouldn't have asked the question.



    If it comes back to Foxwoods, I would think about going.
    I want to go, but vegas woudl be a bit too spendy for my budget.


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  • forgetfulrobotforgetfulrobot Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 40
    Krieg:
    Wow...talk about hijacking a thread...if I knew no one would have taken my post seriously, I wouldn't have asked the question.
    I thought the question got answered pretty well. No one here seems to know much about it which makes sense because the only person that did said it was for the extremely wealthy. I'm not extremely wealthy and know that sitting around a bunch of snobby, arrogant people smoking cigars that I've never heard of because they were top of top line 15 years ago and now have increased value 8 fold isn't a good time.
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  • KriegKrieg Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 5,068
    Fourtotheflush:
    Krieg:
    Wow...talk about hijacking a thread...if I knew no one would have taken my post seriously, I wouldn't have asked the question.



    If it comes back to Foxwoods, I would think about going.
    I want to go, but vegas woudl be a bit too spendy for my budget.


    Maybe getting airfare from Spirit Air (wonder if they go to vegas?) could save money on plane tickets...and not staying at the Venetician would definitley save you some money. Some buddies and are probably gonna go check it out next year, one of them actually has it done to a science. That is going to Vegas on a budget...hell, he even calls up restaruants and bombs them out and gets gift cards to help supplement the food budget. LOL
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  • phobicsquirrelphobicsquirrel Everyone, Registered Users Posts: 7,349
    I don't think just rich people go, I've seen pics and looks like some people show up that maybe shouldn't... lol. Though I'm sure some people are loaded. Hey, if you go to vegas, get rich from casinos then you'd be a snob too! lol... I do wish CA would take less ads and put more cigar stuff in there and as a golfer, I HATE seeing and reading about all those fantastic courses that I'll most likely never hit holes on.
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