Do you consider your cigar to be a "prop"?

[Robusto]

Gosh, I'm Sidney Psychobabble today.

I may have posted something like this before but there are more of us on board now, so cop for an insert.

I have a good musician friend who was horrified when the smoking ban was enforced in British venues. He was particularly fed up about not being able to smoke a cigarette when doing his guitar/vocals bit in pubs because he used to use the cigarette and the smoke coming from it as a definite barrier between himself and the audience.

I think I DEFINITELY enjoy brandishing a cigar in certain circumstances because I think it makes me look more attractive - not hard - and I think it suits me.

I feel taller. I feel more confident. I feel I draw more attention to myself, which in most moods I relish.

I don't go for the loud twat approach, but I do pose a bit when I feel like it.

I'm not a silent wallflower type WITHOUT a cigar, you understand, but when I'm working one in the right place or in the right company, I feel more comfortable, and more publicly (and more privately) amused.

I feel as if I could be writing about cocaine here lol. It's funny what certain things do to you, and to how you feel about yourself.

A few of us have smoked together a few times. I didn't become a monster, and nor did you.

Ironically, a cigar is also the very best companion in solitude and reflection.

Silence. Cigar. You.
Awesome.

(I like to think I'm not addicted, but boy I miss it if I don't do a good cigar a day at present).

[cj121]

I can see the analogy relating to the barrier thingy, something akin to a pair of dark sunglasses.

I lean towards the latter Bryan as I don't have herfing buddies 'round my way, but a stick does prop me up from time to time as opposed to being utilised as one.

[G-man]

Iy Mates it makes me feel 10 feet tall and bullet proof!ROTL
For real I enjoy them so much that I do feel more like a Holiwood movie star when im out and about. Its getting harder to enjoy them with all the bans being put into effect here also. Sometimes even if I don't feel like a stoogie I will take a Dog Rocket with,just to annoy people.Again now were1%ers like outlaw bikers.LMAO Outlaw cigar wheeling ,trouble making old farts!

[Robusto]

Mr gss.

I also feel like a million dollars with a fat cigar on the go where it's appropriate to make a show.

I bloody love it!

[G-man]

Mr Robusto
May I call ye Mr. R
In America we have an ol saying
Fuckum if they can't take a joke
Fuckum if they can
Just fuckum! ROTF
And if they get pissed off
Just remember its better to be pissed off
Then Pissed on !

[daverave999]

Absolutely. I'm not sure which way round it works for me, whether I behave larger than life because I feel the cigar allows me too, or maybe that I'll feel happy smoking in public because I'm already in that mood.

It's certainly an unusual sight for most people and as such their attention will be drawn to you for that reason. I don't think it's a coincidence that performers of some description or another are over-represented on this forum.

[Stogiedog]

Yep Dave, I can truly say that I am a performer generally on a saturday night after a bottle of red wine, and copius amounts of Cuban rum, boy that stuff is nice, pricey but nice.

[Robusto]

Absolutely. I'm not sure which way round it works for me, whether I behave larger than life because I feel the cigar allows me too, or maybe that I'll feel happy smoking in public because I'm already in that mood.

It's certainly an unusual sight for most people and as such their attention will be drawn to you for that reason. I don't think it's a coincidence that performers of some description or another are over-represented on this forum.

I hadn't thought about that, you know.
Even when playing a shit-hole, you don't want to play a bad note.

Cigars - like monocles - are pure theatre.

I don't think I'm a show-off, but I know cigars ALLOW me to pose and show off if I want to.

It follows that Peter North was ALLOWED to make porn films.

Endless job satisfaction, with a diverse range of facial expressions.

[G-man]

Old Farts are we ! Band of Outlaw cigar men,Me and Stoogiedog

I've been in the sun to long and the Dog too many rums
Robusto behind the camera! LOL

[G-man]

Those Men Smoking Cigars

Even before it became pop culture, men smoking cigar was more alluded of patrician lifestyle, a definite upper class leisure that can sometimes be thought as only enjoyed by refined personalities. Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Mark Twain, Groucho Marx, Winston Churchill, Ulysses S. Grant, these distinguished personas have been accounted as being an influential smoker; men smoking cigars whom to them the cigar is nothing merely than just tobacco. Has cigar become an inspiration to them? Is it perhaps a comfort at their obscure loneliness? Or is it simply just a bad habit? Will they be different without a cigar? Here are the most influential men smoking cigar, those that could

Behind the Embargo

Some of the most influential opinion makers could only dispute the decree in literature. But the fact when John Kennedy had his secretary order some thousand boxes of his favorite Upmanns before signing the executive order and effecting the embargo that span until to this date, no other form of hypocrisy can be worse. But since this is among the mild controversies involving Kennedy and his presidency, many have come to overlook the fact.

The Symbolism of Cigar

Perhaps the most well known of the men smoking cigars is Sigmund Freud. He was often ridiculed to find solace in cigars and for using it his 'dope' while leading extensive research with cocaine and its benefits with psychology. His most famous account with cigars was when his famed academic psychoanalysis was challenged. During that time, Sigmund Freud was asked about the phallic shape of the cigar and how, knowing this could impact on his psychology, he just simply replied "Sometimes, a cigar is just a cigar".

Groucho Marx's Lover

Groucho Marx was another colorful personality that has been deeply attributed on men smoking cigars. And with him, there had been a couple of hilarious instances that happened while he was toting a cigar; that or included it in a joke often to somebody else's expense

[G-man]

[G-man]

Always ask permission... before lighting up in a
restaurant, even in the smoking section. Many
people find the smoke... highly offensive, and even
at smoker-friendly places, cigars are often prohibited.

[TJCoro]

The missing link!

You are a wiz with the hyper-links, senor gas.

Very nice!

Regarding JFK...what would you have done if you were about to place an embargo on the very country that produced the finest puros in the world which you loved dearly?

I know what I would have done. I would of had someone go out and buy up as many of my favorite puros as possible. Hypocrisy? Perhaps. Smart? Absolutely!!

But what the hell do I know? I'm TJ, TJCoro, and there is no embargo in the state of mind, mexico

[G-man]

Regarding JFK...what would you have done if you were about to place an embargo on the very country that produced the finest puros in the world which you loved dearly?
It wasn't a mob hit !It was pissed off Americans who loved their Puros more then life itself.ROTF