The Cohiba Siglo V1 Fact-Tastic Challenge

[Robusto]

The site's man on the slopes, Cohiba IV, is offering a Cohiba Siglo VI to the UKCF member who posts the best FACT about cigars.

No closing date yet, but members must submit one fact at a time in a separate post.

Dale will select the best cigar fact and will close the competition when he sees fit.

So get posting those facts!!!

[Robusto]

CIGAR FACT
Posted by Bryan

Bill Clinton had to be checked for early-onset Alzheimers as he could never remember where he had left his stick.

[cohibaIV]

The site's man on the slopes, Cohiba IV, is offering a Cohiba Siglo VI to the UKCF member who posts the best FACT about cigars.

No closing date yet, but members must submit one fact at a time in a separate post.

Dale will select the best cigar fact and will close the competition when he sees fit.

So get posting those facts!!!

[larrysputnik]

Many people confuse the "IV" in Cohiba Siglo IV as being Roman numerals for the number "4." In reality, the "IV" stands for I.V., the abbreviation for the medical term "intravenous," meaning to receive a substance directly through the bloodstream. The manufacturer of Cohiba cigars so named the Siglo IV in recognition of a short hospitalization of Fidel Castro back in the 1970s, where the dictator, showing his lighter side, was quoted as saying, "The one thing I hate about hospitals is that no one lets you enjoy a fine cigar in your hospital room. I miss my cigar so much I told my nurse to put the smoke from my cigar into one of these plastic bags and hook it up to my IV!"

Oh, Fidel What a jokester you are!

[Mr Moore]

my god, is that true, brill factoid there larry.

[cj121]

The phrase "Close but no cigar" is believed to have mid 20th Century origins whereby fairground stall owners gave them out as 'almost' prizes. First documented evidence is where the phrase was used in the 1935 print of Annie Oakley: "Close Colonel, but no cigar"

[Boss Hog]

A half-smoked cigar enjoyed by Britain's war-time prime minister Sir Winston Churchill was sold at an auction for about ?670.
According to auctioneers Outhwaite and Litherland, Churchill had been puffing on the cigar when he arrived for a meeting in Blackpool, north-west England, on October 14, 1950, when he was leader of the Conservative Party.
Churchill stubbed out the cigar and handed it to a special constable standing next to him after being told that he could not smoke in the ballroom.
The policeman kept the cigar as a souvenir and it remained in his family until relatives decided to auction it off.

[daverave999]

Avo Uvezian, who created Avo Cigars, played piano on Frank Sinatra's 1966 hit "Strangers in the night".

[linfield100]

Russia's infamous Queen Catherine the Great loved to smoke cigars.
To avoid soiling her fingertips, she invented a version of the first cigar band. In her case, the bands were made of silk.

[Stogiedog]

So many visitors were taking his cigars, so Thomas Edison devised a plan to discourage the practice. He had several boxes of cigars custom-made with cabbage leaves. But when the offensive smelling stogies were delivered to his office, his secretary sent them on to his home where his wife went ahead and packed the items in his luggage, and the offensive items accompanied Mr. Edison on his business trip. This just goes to show you that even a genius can't outsmart his wife.

[Stogiedog]

Winston Churchill rationed himself 13 cigars/day during the war.

[Stogiedog]

Sir Winston Churchill smoked an estimated 300,000 cigars in his lifetime.

[Ramon]

The oldest cigar factory still in operation today is the Partagas factory at 60 Industria Street. Built in 1845 by Don Jaime Partagas Ravelo and named Real Fabrica de Tabaco Partagas, (Partagas Royal Tobacco Factory).

He is accredited with being the first manufacturer to experiment with various methods of fermentation and aging tobacco, instead of relying on methods based on tradition.

He also made history by being the first person to employ a lector in the 1860's to read out loud in the factory, and personally supervised the first reading.

[Robusto]

Before he presents Question Time on BBC1 on Thursday nights, David Dimbleby can be seen in the back of an Alfa Romeo in the Television Centre car park in silken breeches toking the Alec Bradley of his choice.

Not to be upstaged, brother Jonathan joins him on Summer weekends near the pony trails on Richmond Common for a public Havana-off in front of casual strollers. David Frost will sometimes drive by and wave.

[Robusto]

Eddy Grant - We're Gonna Rock Down To Electric Avenue - was happy to be paid in many boxes of Cuban cigars for some of the gigs he played in the 1980s.