Mr. Paul

Champagne of bottled beer.

Good luck with your hunt.

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In my early years my father owned a weekend "farm". It was 360 acres of woods and fields and ponds. We also had 20 horses. My horse was named Sam and he was a gentle giant. We were on a trail ride in a national forrest when Sam stepped over a fallen tree and hit it with his hoof. We stirred up a hornets nest and they attacked. Sam must of taken 5 or 6 hits while I took nothing. Sam never bucked much or reared he was a true friend. Sam could have hurt me on more than one occasion he never did. Sam died 40 years ago. I miss Sam.

The boat looks like a keeper. Have fun!

I understand the purpose of this forum and mission is different from THT. I am also tired of some topics were a 15 year old boat is messed up and somehow it is the manufacture fault. I would expect those to be skunked. What happens if I want to purchase brand X and ask for the good bad and ugly and let me seperate the wheat from the chaff? I would hope a positive and negative points to be discussed. This is the part of the post I was reacting. I want to participate in your forum I check everyday for new topics and posts but they just seem to die.

In my mind I think the sandbar can stay were it is. I do think that the discussions here are too regimented to have many posts. Topics are too limited to have any type of dialogue. Now the other side as the Ft. Lauderdale boat show is around the corner and Ludy just posts the pic. here and not on another site I think you will see an explosion of visits and discussion.

B-Faithful I can only speak from experience when dealing with selling cars since I was a 22 year old(now 59). When a "customer" starts yelling you will never have a sale. I don't think it is unreasonable to refuse this request. This guy wanted a boat ride on your dime and time. You did not lose a sale because you never had one in the first place. Lets put this in another way so maybe some people would understand. It like asking a builder to build a house with out a contract or any investment on the purchaser part. Is that going to happen? I don't think so. If this person was in the "checking out" stage and wanted that boat bad enough he would have drove the 2 hours to see the thing. But he refused because it would mean HE would have to invest time and money. Hmmm does not want to spend a tank of gas. I submit to you the proof positive he was a mooch and a looker not a buyer.

I think that retro shifter with the round white ball is too cool. With those big wheels and tires it almost looks like a toy that is just a little out of proportion. Cool ride.

I posted some pics and then thought darn I am stepping on Nate post so I deleted them. Nate the one pic of your daughter stearing the boat is fantastic!!!

I have tried the Wizzard. I like everthing about it but one thing it seems milder than the torpedo VSG. Not saying if the store had them I would not buy them. If you want a super premium big ring gage try a Zino Platinum Crown Barrel . Now that is a treat for twenty five bucks a stick.

Jessica returned embarrassed about having the dirt smear on her face saying she was so confused that she walked into the men's room. She turned to me and said in that Kathleen Turner voice, I am sure you are packing more than those etec contender guys. I had that knowing smile on my face.

where are my purple speedos? No I could not have heard that correctly. She must have been asking me about my purple stallion. Sensing that I could close the deal I whispered...

knowing that she Jessica could imitate anyones voice had me fooled. Once she swithced to her Kathleen Turner voice she had me back. Looking at her with her swelling chest and her perfect bust pushing over the top of the peasant dress she was wearing had me thinking can this be a dream? I pinched myself and no it was real. Jesica came over and whispered in my ear...

she had those blue eyes that would make your skin go cold with just a glance.

don't know anything that is lifetime. I would think with sun you get in La it would degrade. But heck I don't know i guess it would last long enough for my life.

welcome to the site have fun1

Right now a Suzuki. low weight for a four stroke and the feed back has been very positive on Suzuki. Could be because enough are not out there. It is the lightest least expensive 4 stroke.

Hav-a-Tampa cigars closing Tampa plant TAMPA - Tampa will lose part of its cigar heritage in August when Hav-A-Tampa shuts its factory near Seffner and lays off about 495 employees, closing a factory that has been operating since 1902. The company announced the closing today. Many employees there make Hav-A-Tampa's iconic Jewels, inexpensive machine-made cigars known for their birchwood tips. Some workers have labored there for two decades or longer, including one who's been there for 50 years, said Richard McKenzie, a senior vice president of human resources for Altadis USA, which owns Hav-A-Tampa. Altadis tried to keep the plant open by closing it for a week or two at a time and furloughing workers. Eventually, though, the company couldn't cope with a steep drop in consumer demand, brought on by the recession and a large new tax on tobacco products, McKenzie said. Work that had been done in Tampa will now be performed in an Altadis plant in Puerto Rico, where it has extra manufacturing capacity, McKenzie said. The company is not closing its nearby distribution center off U.S. 301, where it employs about 150 people. Employees on Tuesday were digesting how they would find work in an economy where more than one in 10 people in the area already are unemployed. "I've been here 12 years. I know someone's who's been there 20 years, 22 years," said Denise Harrison, an office manager at Hav-A-Tampa. "I'm sure we'll all land on our feet, but it will be harder for some people other than me who may have done nothing else." Altadis USA plans to begin laying off workers immediately and will continue until closing the plant in late August. Workers will receive their pay through August, even if they are let go before that, McKenzie said. Employees also are receiving severance packages and job placement assistance. Several things conspired to hurt Altadis' sales, McKenzie said, including the recession and the growth of indoor smoking bans. The bans have especially hurt sales in cold-weather states, where it's impractical to smoke a cigar outdoors in the winter, he said. However, the company attributed much of its trouble to the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP, a federal program that provides health insurance to low-income children. It is funded, in part, by a new federal tax on cigars and cigarettes. McKenzie couldn't say how much sales of Hav-A-Tampa cigars had fallen off, but the numbers have dropped significantly, he said. Previously, federal excise taxes on cigars were limited to no more than a nickel, said Norman Sharp, president of the Cigar Association of America trade group. The tax increase, which took effect April 1, raises the maximum tax on cigars to about 40 cents, Sharp said. Before the tax increase was passed, the cigar industry warned that consumption of cigars could fall as much as 30 percent in the year after its passage. It's not clear yet how big of an impact the law is having on sales, Sharp said. Harrison said she understands the company's predicament and that Altadis has tried to treat its employees fairly, including guaranteeing employees two months of pay. Like her employer, she put part of the blame on the SCHIP tax hike. "We can't afford to make these cigars in the U.S. anymore," she said. Unlike its more upscale rivals, which favored hand-rolling and unionized labor, Hav-A-Tampa turned to machines and nonunionized labor to mass produce cigars, said Gary Mormino, a history professor at the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg. Company founder Eli Witt also was a pioneer in the use of wood tips and wrapping cigars in cellophane -- practices that are now standard in the machine-made cigar industry, Mormino said. "Hav-a-Tampa has to be one of the greatest commercial names," Mormino said. "It just seems right." With the company now set to stop producing in Tampa, the last major cigar maker left in the Bay area will be J.C. Newman, which owns premium brands including Cuesta-Rey, Diamond Crown and La Unica. While those premium brands are made outside the United States, Newman still makes as many as 40,000 cigars a day in Tampa under its less-expensive brands, Rigoletto Black Jack, Factory No. 59 and Mexican Segundos, said company co-owner Bobby Newman. When J.C. Newman moved to Tampa from Cleveland in 1954, there were 10 large cigar factories in the city. "It's a sad day," Newman said. "We are the last ones left out of those." I don't smoke machine made short filler cigars but 500 jobs going to another country because of taxes kind of makes me sad.

I would welcome you to my home any time Ludi. I have a few cubans in there somewhere for you. I have some Cohiba Silgo's and Monte Cristo #2. As you may note I like the big ring gage on my stogies.

Zino Platinum Scepter Stout. La Flor Dominicana Double Ligero 654 Padron 7000 Opus X in the torpedo Ashton VSG Torpedo I have about 350 cigars in my humidor but these are the ones I like best. I am personally not a big fan of Rocky Patel but he sells a lot of cigars so he must be doing something right. The price you paid for that cigar seems high does FL. have a big tobacco tax?

We can talk about the greater good of the class action law suit. Any lawyer will tell you it is about what THEY can collect not the "injured" group. There is a class action law suit in my state saying that Dealers are practicing law when he charges a Doc fee. The lawyers representing the class of customers have made their demands known they want 5 million dollars to settle. Nothing more than lawyer extorting and using mafia type strong arming.

The only thing I know is when they put the house together there seems to be an issue with the shingles. This may have been taken care of by now.