Cigar lies

[James811]

Hey guys, just a question which I think can bring some fairly amusing answers! I work offshore and was seen looking at the forum on my lunch by someone I work with. His first question was what is the biggest cigar I have smoked, I replied Im not too sure. He then proceeded to tell me that he has smoked one 'like this big' puttuing his hands a foot or more apart and said 'a mate of mine went to Cuba and bought it back for me, it took like 3 hours to smoke it and it wasnt even finished'.

Why people feel they have to make this stuff up really amuses me and I wondered whether anyone else has had similar tales told to them because as far as I can work it out, everyone has a friend who has been to Cuba and bought them back a walking stick to smoke!

[pedro]

Well I would not think most of them are lies. more likely people buy holiday things on holiday with no knowledge normally and are buying it more for the novelty value, a really big cigar that will more than likly taste like a tramps arse or a nice cohiba sigloIV which will both be about the same price but what do you think a person with no exsperance would buy to bring back for someone.
Just look at all the tourist crap they sell in every major city in the UK

also at a foot long you are only 2.5 inch short of a Monticrsto A

[Ryan]

You can have anything you want made for you in Cuba if you talk to the right people. Those people aren't hard to find.
There is a cigar smoker who goes to the festival every year who gets these things made for him that must be 9-10 inches long and something like 80-100 ring gauge, it gets hard to tell at that size. Much too big for most cigar smokers but he likes them.
I was given some cigars by a roller a couple of years ago which he called "Maravilla Extras", about 55 ring gauge and 9 inches long. They were really quite good but about the limit of the size I'd smoke. I've one left.

[James811]

Wish I hadnt bothered then...

[RogMcDodge]

Years and years ago I bought a giant novelty cigar from the Canary Islands for a friend. It was easily over a foot long and had a huge ring gauge Turned out it was partly rolled with newspaper!

[Dherm]

Someone bought me one of those from Teneriffe last year in a nice wooden box with "souvenir form the Canaries on the lid". Bless.

[Vortigan]

Years and years ago I bought a giant novelty cigar from the Canary Islands for a friend. It was easily over a foot long and had a huge ring gauge Turned out it was partly rolled with newspaper!

Ewwwwwwww I can't say that I've ever experienced this kind of thing myself James but I think I get what you mean.I suppose that because cigar smoking is still seen by some as indicitive of affluence and pretension,wrongly I think because I don't know anyone that smokes cigars that is either affluent or pretentious,there will always be the odd person that feels the need to play a bit of one-upmanship with it.

[smokem]

Puros Indios used the make a cigar called "The Chief". The thing was like two feet long and was at least a 60 ring, Maybe more. A guy on another board I belong to smoked one at Christmas one year, and it took him over three hours to finish...and, he said was good!

[smokem]

Hope this is ok to post? got it from the net just to show:

[Vortigan]

Hope this is ok to post? got it from the net just to show:

Freud would have a field day!!!

[Dherm]

All cigars should be handled this way

[Andy B]

she's pretty hot!

[The Freck]

I was going to say it, however its just too obvious. Oh what the heck. No refrain!

[Simon Bolivar]

Yeah, good to finish it!

[smokem]

So could she!!