Tell Me A Joke, Let’s Have A Smoke

Cigar Salutations From The Old Glory Society*

There was a time when the funniest guy in the room was a short Jewish guy holding a cigar. It’s possible that cigars make you funnier. Or maybe cigar smokers are just lazy and instead of getting a real job they first try to make a buck by telling jokes. When’s the last time someone came up to you and asked (someone other than your five-year-old), “Hey, wanna hear a good joke?” Shit, I get it, if someone offers to tell you a good joke in 2017 you figure he’s gonna drop his pants or something. Still, life would be simpler, more enjoyable if we told more jokes and smoked more cigars.

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Toilet Paper & The “Everyday” Cigar

Cigar Salutations From The Old Glory Society*

We’ve always called it the toilet paper cigar – affectionately. When you get to know a cigar you can talk about it irreverently. Over the past twenty years, I’ve smoked over 1,000 of them. It’s a cigar you can depend on, a cigar of substance that delivers consistent satisfaction. It’s an everyday friend and every cigar smoker needs at least one of those.

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Gotta Match?

Cigar Salutations From The Old Glory Society*

As a cigar smoker, if you need to inquire about the availability of fire, you’re woefully unprepared my friend. Smoking a cigar isn’t a game of chance. You don’t buy cigars at the local 7-Eleven on impulse and you don’t catch one on fire with whatever’s on hand, like one of those long-tipped, pull-the-trigger things you light a barbecue with. If things go right, you’re going to have that cigar in your mouth for about an hour, so let’s have a little respect, huh?

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