[RevSmoke]

1) What is it... that I am most looking for when I sit down to smoke a cigar?
-- A time to relax and enjoy the company of a good friend who also enjoys a cigar. Hopefully, on Monday, to celebrate a Packer victory.

2) What is it... that will most likely change my cigar choice/desired taste at any given time to select a cigar?
-- Is this a special event? If so, a special cigar. And even then, what I am eating and/or drinking will play a big roll as well.

3) What is it... that appeals to me most in my top 5 favorite cigars? (and maybe you list them and specify what it is in each that makes them most appealing)
-- Spice, sweetness, a complexity that might evolve or change, and a consistency from one smoke to the next. I like being able to grab a particular cigar and know that it is going to be what I expect it to be, what it was before. I don't like grabbing a stick and it has changed so much that it is unrecognizable from the last one. When I grab a Don Jerabek Principe that I purchased in 2010, it should at least be fairly similar to the same smoke I bought in 1999.

4) What is it... that most influences me to try a new cigar/marca?
-- Shilala liked it. OK, maybe not just Scott, but I know those people on CA and in other places who have a similar taste in cigars as do I. When they suggest something new, it probably is something I'll like. Scott has cost me a lot of money, the bastage.

5) What is it... that makes my "go to cigar," the one I reach for when I don't want to seriously contemplate what I am getting from a particular cigar?
-- Consistency. I know what I am going to get.

6) What is it... that makes your "special occasion cigar" so special?
-- Who I am with or maybe who I got the cigar from. Sometimes, it might be a special cigar (price tag, HTF, or some such), but even that special cigar will not be smoked until I'm with the right people.

7) What is it... that keeps "those" cigars out of my humidor, and even more so, out of my mouth?
-- It didn't really "wow" me. I've had lots of cigars over the years. There are some really nice cigars out there that I won't smoke anymore. They are good, but they aren't anything special. I need a cigar that gives me something that I don't find as well done in any other. It might be something I find even in a $2.00 stick.

8) What is it... that you'd like to comment on in regard to this thread which reflects my preluding ponderings, but isn't reflected in the questions.
-- I had to revisit this thread and see if anything I write now is different from what I wrote before.

Hey, if nothing else, I just bumped this back to the top and someone who didn't read it before might be reading it again and will now respond.

If you read this far in this particular post, I am impressed.

Peace of the Lord be with you.