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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on October 16, 2017, 04:27:19 am

Title: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: TomSea on October 16, 2017, 04:27:19 am: Quote
Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
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The cigar was accompanied by a photo of the World War Two-era leader Image copyright RR Auction

A cigar once smoked by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has sold for $12,000 (£9,000), according to the Boston-based RR Auction house.

Churchill partially smoked the 4in (10cm) cigar at the Le Bourget Airport in Paris on 11 May 1947.

Continued at: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41604511

Ping @truth_seeker

Appears to be a Churchill fan.
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: Frank Cannon on October 16, 2017, 04:30:09 am: Quote from: TomSea on October 16, 2017, 04:27:19 am
Appears to be a Churchill fan.

Or he was a hobo who made it good. They love to smoke half burned cigs and cigars.
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: truth_seeker on October 16, 2017, 04:32:05 am: I rank him near the top of all time heroes of western civilization.

His mother was American, btw.
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: Frank Cannon on October 16, 2017, 04:35:22 am: Quote from: truth_seeker on October 16, 2017, 04:32:05 am
His mother was American, btw.

So unlike Ted Cruz, Winston could be President of the US.
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: RoosGirl on October 16, 2017, 04:42:15 am: Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 16, 2017, 04:35:22 am
So unlike Ted Cruz, Winston could be President of the US.

And then it started....
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: Frank Cannon on October 16, 2017, 04:47:32 am: Quote from: RoosGirl on October 16, 2017, 04:42:15 am
And then it started....

Who me? I would never throw a stink bomb into a crowd and stand back to watch the chaos. No Siree.
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: Gefn on October 16, 2017, 09:41:48 am: I love Churchill he's one of my heroes.

But even if I had the money, um, no.

Now- if one of his cats still had relatives, I might want one of those. You know, like the six toed cats that belonged to Hemingway are still around. Well, their great great great grand kittens
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: Suppressed on October 16, 2017, 12:02:30 pm: Quote from: Freya on October 16, 2017, 09:41:48 am
I love Churchill he's one of my heroes.

But even if I had the money, um, no.

Now- if one of his cats still had relatives, I might want one of those. You know, like the six toed cats that belonged to Hemingway are still around. Well, their great great great grand kittens

Grab some DNA and clone him!
:laugh:
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: endicom on October 16, 2017, 01:09:02 pm: "And a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke." - ~~Bill Clinton~~ Rudyard Kipling
Title: Re: Churchill cigar butt sold for $12,000
Post by: Fishrrman on October 17, 2017, 01:15:29 am: truth seeker wrote (of Churchill):
"I rank him near the top of all time heroes of western civilization."

Agreed. He was certainly the greatest leader of the Twentienth Century.
Without him, Hitler would have won.

He was 100% right about the muhammedans, as well.
His writings about them are prescient.