howdy CP folks! I haven't checked in here in years and I don't see a lot of familiar faces left from the stone age, but as covid has given me more than enough free time this past year, i've been beating up my cigar inventory and can only regale my wife so much with how good a smoke was or...

lots of fun stories here. rod, you'll enjoy this one: www.weirdnj.com

decided to light up one of these for the eclipse tonite. figured go with something big so it would keep me outside in the cold longer. it was ok, tho i still prefer the isom's.

ok, i know we did this a few years ago...someone's gotta have some new ones by now, eh?

The man he stepped up to the microphone and he gave it a kiss. It was a big wet, slippery kiss. And he had sweat dripping off of his nose onto the windscreen. As he looked out over the audience he said, "God bless you, God bless you one and all." Then he took a can of Ronson lighter fluid...

anyone know how to set up a .bmp image in a picturebox control for VB6 so that it becomes a metafile? i need to load a graphic on a form so that the 'background' of the image isn't showing.

well, i've had WAY too much free time this week. so while i'm sitting around here tinkering with an ailing pc, i started thinking about the tubing trip we're supposed to take this weekend on the delaware river. we do this fairly regularly during the summer. one of the little back country...

it's july 10th, Happy JUL10 day! :sign:

if i remember right, mike's b-day is sometime around now.  i may not have the exact day, but i think i'm close, so.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE!!!  <i owed ya one, hehe> have a good one!

if you don't see it right away, keep looking. it usually takes a little while to spot it.... ;) http://home.attbi.com/~n9ivo/whatswrong.swf

well, i watched 3 NY news channels tonight only to discover that at 12:39am yesterday morning, many unidentified flying objects were witnessed and filmed by hundreds of people including police over carteret, nj, which is the town next to mine and about a mile away. they showed some of the video...

Welcome to Habanos Limitada.  Unfortunately, the maximum number of participants has already been reached for this pass, so I will not be accepting any new applicants.  Pass Inventory:RyJ petit corona ISU-VC-2 (02/98) SLR churchill BMOESU (04/98) Partagas Pyramide Ltd Ed Mad (?) H. Upmann Sir...

well this just showed up at my door alive and well.

shadow: "Nothing wrong with an Excalibur d. Had an Excalibur #1 Maduro this morning. "oh i wasn't saying there's anything wrong with them, i like them a lot and usually have a bunch laying around. i was just saying with the holidays over i had to stop setting fire to the more uncommon smokes...