Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for May 30, 2019

I’d rather have a hint of ganja in mine.

My memory of the only Cuban cigar that I ever smoked, was in a fishing boat on a small lake in Kentucky several years ago. It made me so sick that I turned green. I did’t feel exclusive, even though that may be part of why I bought it, but exclusivity has never appealed to me since.

Maybe you got the one that’s “gone bad.”

Hope none of them blow up in their faces.

What’s the point of this?

I bought a cigar the night my niece was born and vowed to smoke it on her wedding night. The reception was luckily held outdoors. 30 years later, the smoke could have been classified as a WMD. I quickly put it out and apologized.

Although it’s belated, Happy 102 to JFK.

If Willie’s was bad I wonder where he dipped it? ;-}

I notice that Mr. Grant is speechless. This may be Mr. Carroll’s comment on throat cancer and cigars.

I have sampled a few Cuban cigars…. but only when I am in Canada. They can be pleasant.

I think it was Sigmund Freud who said, “Sometimes a Cuban is only a Cuban.”

I remember an episode of Pawn Stars a few years back when someone brought in a set of 5 or 6 of JFK’s personal Cuban stash. One of Rick’s experts was able to authenticate them as the genuine article (along with the monogrammed box they were in). Rick did buy them and was tempted to light one up, but the Old Man put his foot down over the potential loss of revenue.

Bill used Cuban interns to smuggle his into the country.

You can get Cuban cigars in Mexico and Canada (and, of course, Cuba). But since I’ve never smoked anything, and therefore wouldn’t know the world’s best cigar from the world’s worst cigar, I passed on those opportunities.

I was handed a glass of what I was assured was the finest red wine in all the world.Tasted like a mud puddle and smelled like a horse pasture.“Earthy,” I was told.I figured the so-fist-i-kates were having a little fun with Flyover Boy (me). Or maybe it was just that the emperor was buck-naked. Again.

Why is Warren Harding in this cartoon? He was into ethanol during Prohibition. Obviously Ike was President when Castro overthrew Batista, but Harding? Or is it a subtile hint of what they were smoking while playing poker?

I thought he blamed it on Pierre Salinger.

“Spite candy never tastes very good.” —Charlie Brown

My only exposure to a Cuban cigar was at the Cuban pavilion at Expo 67. I smoked about 3/4" before I realized that my last meal was in imminent danger of expulsion. I returned to my pipes with sincere gratitude and about eight years later gave up smoking for good and all entirely without regret.