DGBAMA
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Well done MO.
drum roll please
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buck
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Very nice Mad O ...
Mad Oshea
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Sorry, My entry was on the table after it was sent. LOL sending it to Knuks for the help and leaf so I can contend. Glad You like the box. Mad-
Brown Thumb
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They Look Good Mad, A lot better then mine would have been.
A curious fact about jet lag is how it is magnified tenfold when flying east. Sports teams often attest to this. Football teams travelling east will arrive two days earlier to allow time to recover. Vacationers to Hawaii will report they felt fine on arrival, but disoriented and worn out on return. Man in all his volkerwanderungs has especially thrived when wandering west. Desynchronosis is what the white coats call it. Disrupted circadian rhythms.
I never knew jet lag applied to packages as well.
I sent a gift in January -- no, scratch that; Don was good enough to send a package for me to South Africa early in January. It returned to Akron a week ago marked "unclaimed". I sent a package with the contest goodies to Ben Brand and another to Big Dog two months ago. They took six weeks to arrive, travelling east. Ben's package got disoriented and had to rest in the post office eleven days. So when Big Dog and Ben Brand sent their contest entries back this way with less than two weeks to go, I was resigned to the idea they would never make it here in time.
No problem. Arrived yesterday. In excellent order, about ten days.
Not a bad entry at all. The exemplar is above Big Dog's rocket for comparison. A bit long. Not so plump in the middle as the exemplar. No flare at the foot. On the other hand, look at that most difficult cap on the tapered end. No one else has mastered that cap so well as the Big Dog.
The odor of this stick is rich and entrancing and mysterious. I am dying to know what's in it. The wrapper has a real velvety feel to it, and smells like dark chocolate and something else. It's that something else that's elusive. Not even Bearswatter's delicate nose can decipher it. Smells to me either like damp leaf mould on a deciduous forest floor, or else scat of an herbivore. Can't make up my mind.
Here's what Big Dog reports:
"For some reason that I can not explain, South Africans can not be bothered to get to know their tobacco. As far as I could find out, the baccy that I used is LD02; an air cured pipe tobacco that I fermented myself using an electric blanket."
I never knew jet lag applied to packages as well.
I sent a gift in January -- no, scratch that; Don was good enough to send a package for me to South Africa early in January. It returned to Akron a week ago marked "unclaimed". I sent a package with the contest goodies to Ben Brand and another to Big Dog two months ago. They took six weeks to arrive, travelling east. Ben's package got disoriented and had to rest in the post office eleven days. So when Big Dog and Ben Brand sent their contest entries back this way with less than two weeks to go, I was resigned to the idea they would never make it here in time.
No problem. Arrived yesterday. In excellent order, about ten days.
Not a bad entry at all. The exemplar is above Big Dog's rocket for comparison. A bit long. Not so plump in the middle as the exemplar. No flare at the foot. On the other hand, look at that most difficult cap on the tapered end. No one else has mastered that cap so well as the Big Dog.
The odor of this stick is rich and entrancing and mysterious. I am dying to know what's in it. The wrapper has a real velvety feel to it, and smells like dark chocolate and something else. It's that something else that's elusive. Not even Bearswatter's delicate nose can decipher it. Smells to me either like damp leaf mould on a deciduous forest floor, or else scat of an herbivore. Can't make up my mind.
Here's what Big Dog reports:
"For some reason that I can not explain, South Africans can not be bothered to get to know their tobacco. As far as I could find out, the baccy that I used is LD02; an air cured pipe tobacco that I fermented myself using an electric blanket."
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Who would believe a sixty degree morning on July fourth weekend. The hurricane blew the stank air away, left us refreshed, passed on at sea. I am going to throw a leg over Biffy Bullfrog and ride to Abbottstown PA. There's a farmer there who grew a thousand plants on a lark last year, baled the leaves, took a bale to FX Smiths Sons to roll. We are going to sit on the porch and burn a couple. I like the local grown stuff. Like brown eggs and fresh corn from the produce stand. Like creamy honey from the local bees on home made bread.
Who would believe a sixty degree morning on July fourth weekend. The hurricane blew the stank air away, left us refreshed, passed on at sea. I am going to throw a leg over Biffy Bullfrog and ride to Abbottstown PA. There's a farmer there who grew a thousand plants on a lark last year, baled the leaves, took a bale to FX Smiths Sons to roll. We are going to sit on the porch and burn a couple. I like the local grown stuff. Like brown eggs and fresh corn from the produce stand. Like creamy honey from the local bees on home made bread.
Ben Brand
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Webmost is my cigars there yet? Maddog sent his frrom Johannesburg which is mu h more civilised than where I send mine from. Can we please just postpone your b-day for a day or two, so my parcel can catch up, I'm sure its not far behind maddogs.
Don't give up yet. We still have mail deliveries today, Monday, and then Tuesday.
I don't know: Has anyone ever held a contest which dragged on longer than this one? Seems like it's gone way past the point where anyone gives a crap. This one single event has dragged on continuously for two months. The world we live in is such short attention span theater these days that I ought to have put more thought into how to cut this short.
... and yet, here we are, just two days left, when the second entry from a South African FTT brother barely squeaks it under the wire. My starter package to Ben Brand required five weeks to arrive in Africa, then another two weeks before anyone at the post office bothered to tell him it was behind their counter. By that time, Ben had already sent his contest entry in a day or two earlier. Yup, sent it before he ever got a chance to scope out the example. It crept across the ocean for two weeks. Yesterday, I found this in my box:
Had to laugh at "prescription glasses" written on the odd shaped parcel. I wasn't fooled. This thing was so taped up it took me twenty minutes to peel the covering back:
Inside this spectacle case, I found a very worthy contest entry:
Ironically, out of all entries, this one comes closest to the right length. Hoe that happened when Ben never saw the original, that's a mystery. It's stuffed hard throughout, wrapped smoothly, skillfully stuffed, the right color... a lot going for it. The head is not rounded and capped. The taper is not so pronounced as the original. But allowances have to be made for a guy who never got to see a drumstick in the flesh.. I'll have to lay out all the entries Tuesday and select three finalists. This may be one of them.
p.s. A couple of odd little riders accompanied Ben's entry. They have bands advertising them as "The Fat Dutchman" and "Blend # 13B". Anyone ever heard of Fat Dutchman cigars?
... and yet, here we are, just two days left, when the second entry from a South African FTT brother barely squeaks it under the wire. My starter package to Ben Brand required five weeks to arrive in Africa, then another two weeks before anyone at the post office bothered to tell him it was behind their counter. By that time, Ben had already sent his contest entry in a day or two earlier. Yup, sent it before he ever got a chance to scope out the example. It crept across the ocean for two weeks. Yesterday, I found this in my box:
Had to laugh at "prescription glasses" written on the odd shaped parcel. I wasn't fooled. This thing was so taped up it took me twenty minutes to peel the covering back:
Inside this spectacle case, I found a very worthy contest entry:
Ironically, out of all entries, this one comes closest to the right length. Hoe that happened when Ben never saw the original, that's a mystery. It's stuffed hard throughout, wrapped smoothly, skillfully stuffed, the right color... a lot going for it. The head is not rounded and capped. The taper is not so pronounced as the original. But allowances have to be made for a guy who never got to see a drumstick in the flesh.. I'll have to lay out all the entries Tuesday and select three finalists. This may be one of them.
p.s. A couple of odd little riders accompanied Ben's entry. They have bands advertising them as "The Fat Dutchman" and "Blend # 13B". Anyone ever heard of Fat Dutchman cigars?
Isn't "The Fat Dutchman" brand hand produced by a single South African torcedor? I think he's famous or something on certain forums.
Mad Oshea
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The Mustache is Latakia. Didn't have Cedar. The box, I think is Cypres. Un known. Not paste board.Mad O'Shea is an artist. That's what I think.
Everyone else sends their contest entry in a plastic bag in a cardboard box. Not Mad. Sends his in this:
The two decorative bands above are velcro holding the box shut. The center black rectangle is fabrick inset into the box. The box itself is made of some pressboard material.
I open up, here's this black leaf mustache on a foam piece.
I lift that, and now here are what Mad call the five brothers Grimm, and two other riders..
... and tell me that one doesn't look pretty ding close.I don't say it's a smooth job. I do say it's getting close to size and shape.
Here it is again:
Mad O'Shea. Mad skillz.
The first from Rt. Contends with post # 59 Puff.com
#59 1- Mad 0 Congrads buddy, Great roll
2nd from rt. # 62 Puff.com
# 62 - 2 -Mad 0 Another winn.
# 73- To 3rd from rt.
#73 -Mad 0 Awsome work
MorganGeo- You Sir get # 1 -Mad 0
Best box is Ben. Tape and all!
This is how I think Webmost will call it-
Ben and Buck for a tie #1
BigDog # 2
Roland #3
IndianaMac # 4 And Myself Mad last.
AZD master contender!
Thanks for letting a cig. chew and pipe smoker in Folks. Mad Man- Happy Birthday, My contender that was left out goes to knucks. Who knows?
Ben Brand
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Thank goodness the fat dutchmans arrived in time!!!! I will let you know what the blends are. Must move my a..... or I will be late for work.
Ben Brand
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Cigar 13B- wrapper- black stalk mammoth. Binder- pen b leaf. Ligero-v abajo. Viso-zimmer spanish. Seco-conn b leaf. Volado- comstock spanish.
Drumstick- wrapper- pen red. Binder- conn b leaf. Ligero-little Dutch. Viso-hue huetenango. Seco- flor sumatra. Volado-pen b leaf.
Please let me know what you think of the taste.
Enjoy.
Drumstick- wrapper- pen red. Binder- conn b leaf. Ligero-little Dutch. Viso-hue huetenango. Seco- flor sumatra. Volado-pen b leaf.
Please let me know what you think of the taste.
Enjoy.
Mad Oshea
Taking a break
Very nice blends.
Bigdog
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Its a very cold 8 July in my neck o' the woods. Happy B-day Webmost!
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