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Cuban cigar legend Robaina dead at 91
MSNBC ^
| April 17, 2010
| Associated Press
Posted on 04/18/2010 1:54:48 PM PDT by Greg123456
HAVANA - Cuban tobacco grower Alejandro Robaina, an international symbol of the island's cigar-making prowess, died Saturday. He was 91.
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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: castro; cigar; cuba; cubacastrocigar
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This yesterday: Cuban activist Carlos Franqui dies at 89. One more makes three. Please, Fidel, Please. It's your turn.
To: Greg123456
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posted on
04/18/2010 1:57:45 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: fieldmarshaldj
You haven’t lived until you’ve smoked a genuine Cuban cigar. A little bit of heaven on earth.
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posted on
04/18/2010 2:01:58 PM PDT
by
Shaun_MD
(Goldwater Conservative)
To: Shaun_MD
CAn someone post a picture of Kramer with his Cubans?
To: hampdenkid
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posted on
04/18/2010 2:07:44 PM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: Shaun_MD
Guess I'm not going to live then.
I don't smoke cigars. Never have.
To: Greg123456
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posted on
04/18/2010 2:13:13 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Thank you so much. I’m sitting here laughing out loud. Cubans, yeah!
To: Greg123456
A lot of people don’t like them. Maybe it’s an acquired taste. For me, a glass of sherry or bourbon with a Cohiba or a hand rolled Havana (If you can find them) is out of this world
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posted on
04/18/2010 2:13:47 PM PDT
by
Shaun_MD
(Goldwater Conservative)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
04/18/2010 2:14:21 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Shaun_MD
Stop! You're killing me. My grandfather (a Spanish exile living Mexico) used to smoke nothing but the finest Cuban cigars. When I was a boy, he would take me out on Sunday afternoons for a long walks through the park, finishing with a stop at his favorite restaurant. The restaurant owner would bring him Cuban cigars, and coffee, while I dove into the pastries. The aroma of his expensive aftershave, chocolate, and fine tobacco still fill my senses some 50 years on. Those were heady, manly aromas. To him, a cigar was more than smoking. It was a sacred ritual. It was something to be savored, enjoyed at leisure. Whenever a distinguished older gent passes on the sidewalk with a fine cigar, I recall my grandfather. I do miss him so.
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posted on
04/18/2010 2:56:56 PM PDT
by
PowderMonkey
(Will work for ammo)
To: Shaun_MD
You havent lived until youve smoked a genuine Cuban cigar. A little bit of heaven on earth. Nah. Cuban's ain't what they use to be.
As for me, give me a Fuente Hemingway Classic Maduro from the Dominican Republic.
Mmm, mmm, mmm.
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posted on
04/18/2010 3:01:44 PM PDT
by
mcmuffin
(Keep your powder and tobacco dry)
To: mcmuffin
A. Fuente Don Carlos No. 2, por favor.....
To: Greg123456
The Godfather of Cuban Cigars By Anthea De Lima (The New Straits Times Press) Don Alejandro Robaina is synonymous with the best Cuban cigar there is. ANTHEA DE LIMA is a little awed as she speaks to the 85-year-old owner of the finest tobacco estate in Cuba, who had his first cigar at age 10.
http://cigars.kaywa.com/200505
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posted on
04/18/2010 3:11:46 PM PDT
by
mcmuffin
(Keep your powder and tobacco dry)
To: Greg123456
In the end, he said he decided that freedom of expression was incompatible with revolutionary thought: "Culture is liberty and the revolution is the negation of liberty."
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posted on
04/18/2010 4:12:18 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Free Men will always be armed with the Truth.)
To: Greg123456
Too bad the CIA never came through with the right exploding cigar for Fidel "Psycho" Castro.
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posted on
04/18/2010 4:16:43 PM PDT
by
Cecily
To: clintonh8r
The BEST I have had was a Romeo & Julieta Churchill, the one with the thin gold band, I bought in Tijuana in '98. THAT was Heaven on Earth. Tobacco, leather and vanilla. Best cigar I've ever had in 20 years of pounding stogies.
Washed down with a shot of Lagavulin.
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posted on
04/18/2010 4:31:24 PM PDT
by
muleskinner
("You know the Germans always make good stuff')
To: mcmuffin
Smoking kills (seems much later :-)
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posted on
04/18/2010 6:38:00 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
To: PowderMonkey
“To him, a cigar was more than smoking. It was a sacred ritual. It was something to be savored, enjoyed at leisure.”
I would add, that that was before everything became sissified. When a group of men could actually be men and do men things. You could get together with your friends, and smoke and drink and relax, talk about politics or whatever and nobody anywhere was going to tell you how ‘bad those things were for you’
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posted on
04/18/2010 7:06:23 PM PDT
by
Shaun_MD
(Goldwater Conservative)
To: mcmuffin
Man you are making me salivate :)
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posted on
04/18/2010 8:37:54 PM PDT
by
Shaun_MD
(Goldwater Conservative)
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