Originally posted by Extensioncord: At the Big Smoke 2005 in New York City, the Flavorettes had a particularly classy job to do: licking the attendees. That’s right. If you stood in line for your free Moontrance (I passed), you’d get a lick followed by the application of a temporary CAO tattoo.
I just threw up in my mouth.
Please tell me you were kidding.
FWIW, I'm with you on the bathroom door handle thing. I actually threw away a pair of shoes after visiting the restroom at the Subway Inn on 60th and Lexington.
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Posts: 1485 | Location: New York/Denver | Registered: August 05, 2005
Originally posted by Extensioncord: At the Big Smoke 2005 in New York City, the Flavorettes had a particularly classy job to do: licking the attendees. That’s right. If you stood in line for your free Moontrance (I passed), you’d get a lick followed by the application of a temporary CAO tattoo.
Originally posted by salibas007: extensioncord.... can the empty box be used instead of those annoying neon lights to illuminate the entrance of a striptease club???
I don't know why you guys are all hating on the Vision, it is the best dom. puro on the market. In fact I scored 2 boxes of opus super belis this week and would be willing to trade for visions. If anyone is interested please leave a message on this thread, thanks.
Does The CAO Vision Still Suck – Special Q&A Edition, Part One
Though the CAO Vision does indeed seem to suck, its mere existence has raised a number of intriguing questions. It may not go down in history as one of the world’s great cigars but it does certainly provide food for thought. In part one of what is likely to become a continuing series, our first question comes from salibas007…
Can the empty box be used instead of those annoying neon lights to illuminate the entrance of a striptease club?
This is an excellent question for a number of reasons. First, in order to avert a potential environmental holocaust, it is important that we begin thinking right now about alternative uses for the CAO Vision’s packaging after it has fulfilled its intended purpose.
I contacted both the Sierra Club and Greenpeace but they were unaware of its existence. Al Gore may have some ideas, but he did not return my e-mail in time to make my Friday morning deadline. However, for me at least, the question isn’t only about alternative uses for the box, but also the appropriateness of those uses. For example, you wouldn’t force a noble, retired racehorse into grueling farm work, and certainly, you wouldn’t press the snazzy and oh so tasteful Vision box into distinguished use as part of a stuffy old tea service set.
With that in mind, I had some ideas for “alternative uses” of the Vision box…
Voting machine in Florida (modifications necessary)
Spittoon
Frog hunting night-light (if you live near a swamp you know what I mean)
Soapbox derby car
Quack medical device
Movie prop for “Blade Runner 2”
Pinhole camera with built-in flash
Gay attractant (open neon box at any bath house in San Fran, I bet you’ll be mobbed within seconds)
Gag gift (“Look what I got you for your birthday...haha, just kidding, I wouldn’t do that to you, I really got you some Don Kikis…wait, seriously, just kidding…”)
Tommy Lee’s work release lunchbox
Hot dog holder for vendors at minor league baseball stadiums (just in time for summer)
UFO
Bug zapper (add your own electrified grid)
Music box (with the addition of iPod loaded with Pink Floyd albums)
Helmet for square-headed freak (check local circus)
Memory box (if your memories consist of blowing your weekly paycheck on whores and crystal meth and videotaping it all)
Blacklite substitute
IQ test (if subject chooses Vision box over anything else in room, refer for evaluation)
Disco-in-a-box
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Humidor
Poodle coffin
Car jack
Anton LeVey’s picnic basket
Christmas tree topper
Hanukkah gift (hey, eight nights of presents, they can’t all be winners)
Lava lamp substitute
Magical money machine (insert any crappy $1 cigar, sell for $12)
World’s smallest casino
Highway flare
Nitelite at that ice hotel I see on TV every winter
Target (bowhunting, trap shooting)
Lighthouse
Stripper/Flavorette hypnotization device
Great gift for The Wizard of Oz (he’s so hard to shop for)
Handsome frame for you and your partners’ “civil union” certificate
But getting back to the original question, I see no reason why the Vision box could not be used to illuminate the entrance of a strip club. In fact, the integrated temperature gauge and hygrometer might also come in handy to help owners or fire marshals gauge the general moistness levels in the club. (Anything above 70% and I’d suggest turning right around and getting the f*ck outta there…)
Strangely enough, given its plastic construction, seemingly heat-generating lighting system, the potential for battery leakage and 100% absence of anything resembling Spanish cedar, it would not be ideal for use as a cigar humidor. Go figure.
Keep those questions coming… And thanks to salibas007 for a very thoughtful and pragmatic opening entry.
Leave the Beatle's and Pink Floyd out of this. Sir Paul is getting enough bad press rescently with his one legged, ummm how do you say whore in English, oh yeah its whore.
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Posts: 915 | Location: MI | Registered: February 08, 2007
First I would like to say that the CAO marketing campaign and how they design there boxes is repulsive. When you a CAO Italia or Brail you dont even get a cedar box. But some or their cigars are interesting. The CAO Italia in particular is a very good cigar as I think the Brazil cigar is. I also think its interesting the way they are experimenting with diffrent types of tobbacos from diffrent countries to find unique blends. However, to price the new visions in line with come cigars that are far superior is just wrong. The new visions are awful and the box simply breaks with the way I bealieve cigars should be displayed. A cigar should not be about the marketing blitz behind it. Their ventures into flavored cigars and the CAO girls( who are great looking and amazing to look at) are just not what cigar smoking as all about. If you look at the boxes and how the great brands operate it is nothing like the way CAO operates. CAO should stick with being a unique company who is not afraid to try new blends that most companies would not venture into. They also need to know their market and also stop operating the company like its a fortune 500 company trying to gain market share over its rivals with flashy marketing. CAO does have a place in the cigar market, they just need to know their function.
Posts: 55 | Location: Boston,MA | Registered: January 11, 2004
I would def not recommend the CAO vision it is overpriced and not a product that is at all interesting. There is so many better cigars in its price range.
Posts: 55 | Location: Boston,MA | Registered: January 11, 2004
Originally posted by CigarReview: There is so many better cigars in its price range.
There be so many better cigars, as well.
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WOW! I thought I had a hard time w/ typos and spelling errors. CigarReview, not only did you spell many words incorrectly and have many typos, but it seems like your sentence structure is on a lower level than my 3rd grade daughter. I want to apologize in advance if you are from a foreign country and do not speak english. You wouldn't happen to be my friend Lee in disguise would you?
Honestly who cares about sentance structure and spelling on a cigar forum. I come on here after a 12 hour day as an investment banker to chill out and relax and talk about one of my passions in life. You dont go on cigar forums to write a well written dissertation.I do enough of that during the day.
Posts: 55 | Location: Boston,MA | Registered: January 11, 2004
Originally posted by PFSGoldenEagle: So, would you recommend a CAO Vision or not? This thread has been a little ambiguous on that point so far.
I'm confused also, are you telling me to buy one?
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