Mum, who's been steadily refining her book choices for me over successive recent Christmases, gave me P.J. O'Rourke's The CEO of the sofa this time around. Just as I was finishing the last 20 pages tonight, it seemed like it was drooping to a close, as he fell into a couple of pages of overblown Democrat-bashing, as if he was trying to finish writing the book about as fast as I was trying to finish reading it (but then, I don't read his stuff to be politically enlightened). Nevertheless, the rest of it's full of his usual descriptive humour, not too dissimilar to . I've learnt just how exciting it is to hang around the U.N., plus a few useful things about cigars, which almost helped me out when Michael was relating a Cigar FAQ to me after last night's film.
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The cigar FAQ he's referring to is this: http://www.natsherman.com/since1930/ns_cigar_faq.cfm. (Dammit, how to you post links???) The disputed point was whether you're supposed to take the band on or off--P.J. apparently ridiculed Bill Clinton for *not* taking it off, but here, in this FAQ, it says that it's best to leave the band on. Escalating via google ... the Cigar Aficionado FAQ, http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/Aficionado/faq8.html, (God I love that magazine) says "For the record, it is equally appropriate to leave the band on while smoking a cigar or to remove it, as long as the cigar's wrapper leaf is not torn when the band is removed." Take that, P.J.!
Posted by Michael S. | January 5, 2002 12:12 PM
Posted on January 5, 2002 12:12