New Guy Here, Some Help?

[MMAB]

Welcome aboard.

1. - Don't keep your cigars in the car. Bad move. Temperature extremes. Too hot, too cold. You will ruin the cigars.

2. - Do buy a humidor. Consider your purchasing over the near future and buy one that will accomodate your purchases. Many guys buy their first humidor only to find later that they bought one that is too small.

3. - You may want to consider making a "Cooler-dor" which is a conventional camping/picnic cooler converted into a humidor. Check out the following link for a detailed description:

http://www.cigardiary.com/index.php?...age&PAGE_id=28

4. - If you get a humidor big enough to accomodate boxes of cigars, leave them in their boxes. Check out the following thread link on the "cello on or off" thing. My opinion? Leave em' on.

http://www.cigarsmokers.com/t90-wrap...9n-or-off.html

5. - Fair warning on a couple of things: Cigar smoking is a sickness. You will find yourself hoarding cigars. Eventually you will sell your TV, car, house, whatever, just to buy lots of cigars. I will hold off for now on one particular web site that has many a cigar smoker hooked.....well......what the hell...check out this site.....get your credit card ready! It's like eBay for cigars!

www.cigarbid.com

Also, the crowd on this board are a bunch of maniacal, sex crazed bastards. Whatever you do NEVER EVER post a pic of yourself here. If you do you will find it hideously altered at a later date being posted in some other part of this site depicting you in lewd sexual situations. Now as for myself, that isn't necessary since I can provide anyone here with REAL pics of myself in lewd sexual situations!

In reality, the crowd here is a really nice bunch of people. We are a widely varied lot. Men and women, a few dolphins and one gorilla (just kidding! everybody knows dolphins can't smoke cigars! The water would put them out!) many races and creeds, many views on sexuality, religion and politics. Hex, the administrator of this site allows free speech but there are rules. No one is here to make enemies (well....maybe one or two! )

6. - Understand that newbies or "noobs" as they are called sometimes innocently ask the same questions over and over as would be expected. This can be trying on some of the senior members here. Before posting a question, try doing a search here to see if it's been asked before.

The internet has a wealth of info available too. But of course, if you have a question don't be afraid to ask. Someone will answer.

7. - Check out this thread created by Gran Cru No 2 for some common sense advice about this board:

http://www.cigarsmokers.com/showthre...1529#post21529

Have fun and good smokes to ya!

Mark a.k.a. MMAB