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New Year's Sale
Didn't get what you wanted for Christmas? Need something to help welcome in 2006? Come by the Tobacco Bowl for our big sale on all cigar pre-packs. This week only, Dec. 27-31, all cigar pre-packs are 10% off. Choose from your favorites - Cohiba, Montecristo, Diablo, Macanudo, Hoyo de Monterrey, Punch, La Gloria Cubana, etc, etc, etc. This sale expires this Saturday, Dec. 31, so hurry in now.
We're open our regular hours from Tuesday thrud Saturday, New Year's Eve!!
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Holiday Hours
Closed Christmas Eve.
Closed Monday, Dec. 26.
Open 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. New Year's Eve.
Merry Christmas!
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In My Defense...
My daughter is three and goes to a local Montessori school. The other morning, while dropping her and and her brother off I was approached by a mother who asked, "Are you S's father?"
"Yes," I said.
"Well, S has been hitting M (her daughter)."
"She's probably just taking a break from hitting JP (my son)."
Silence.
"I'll talk to her," I said.
So later that night, as we wound down from dinner and bathtime, and we had a moment alone, I broached the subject. "S, M's mommy told me today that you've been hitting her."
"Did you see me hit her?" she asked.
So, my question is, when is it too early to sign her up for law school?
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Speaking of humidors...
This is a wonderful humidor with a rattan/steamer trunk look to it. It has brass hinges, a curved lid and the requisite Spanish cedar interior with lift out tray for easy storage access. It closes snuggly and has a unique clasp in the style of a luggage tag.
Height: 8.5"
Width: 16"
Depth: 10.5"
Price: $250
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Big, Beautiful Humidor
I've just received this big, beautiful humidor from CAO. It has its own stand, an attractive straight-grain pattern and four large drawers for cigar storage. Measurements are as follows:
Overall height: 41"
Humidor height: 19"
Width: 17"
Depth: 13"
Price: $500
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R.I.P.
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El Lector
I've been sending out the Tobacco Bowl newsletter for about six years now - first in text form and now in the fancy pants HTML style - and have been searching for a name for it for all these years. I once asked everyone to E-mail me with their own ideas and, while there were many fine suggestions, nothing struck me just right.
In the old days of handrolling cigars in Havana and, later, in Tampa there was not widespread use of radio and certainly not television. To help pass the days of tedious bunching, binding and wrapping, the rollers would chip in their own money to pay a reader or 'lector' to read the day's news from the local paper, magazine articles or even novels aloud.
I hope that you find El Lector informative and fun and that it helps to while away the time it takes you to smoke that churchill or belicoso.
To receive El Lector and to be kept up to date with new product arrivals, in-store cigar events, what's up with me and what's up with downtown, just click on Newsletter over on the right side of this page.
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CAO presentation reaches new pinnacle
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We Have Mold
I just received these cool cigar molds with 10 actual cigars in them. This will make the perfect gift for the 
cigar lover on your list - the cigars are wonderful and the dark wood cigar mold will look great displayed in any man's smoking room.
The cigars include a robusto and toro sizes in the Montecristo White, Romeo y Julieta Vintage Cameroon and H. Upmann Vintage Cameroon lines.
H. Upmann Vintage Cameroon:
Wrapper: Cameroon
Binder: Nicaraguan
Filler: Dominican, Nicaraguan and Peruvian
Romeo y Julieta Aniversario:
Wrapper: Ecuadorian Sumatra
Binder: Connecticut Broadleaf
Filler: Dominican, Nicaraguan and Peruvian
Montecristo White Cigars:
Wrapper: Connecticut Shade Ecuadorian
Binder: Nicaraguan
Filler: Dominican and Nicaraguan
Price: $55 - $99
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Congratulations!
Congratulations are in order for
our good friend and local cigar savant, JB, and his wife, Summer, who just became parents again with the birth of Ragan Mackenzie, weighing in at 8 lbs., 2 oz. Mother, baby and father are doing just great. Here is a photo of Ragan and big brother, Bryce.
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The Nice List
Just in case Santa uses the Google Blog Search for his
Naughty and Nice Lists, I've decided to publish my Wish List.
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