Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 8:42 p.m.

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Body of a lion, head of Twain

Contributing Reporter
Published Friday, September 11, 2009

The Freudian connotations of cigar enthusiasts’ zeal for wrapping their lips around long, brown, joyous sticks and proceeding to suck for upwards of 40 minutes arouse the interest of even those most skeptical of psychoanalysis. Though many of Freud’s ideas regarding the subconscious mind are now considered fellatious phallacies, it is time we psychoanalyze the cigar once and for all. Many of the most masculine men in history — Winston Churchill, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Jordan and Mark Twain, for example — have been avid cigar smokers. Shall we therefore assume that, when Twain...

#1 By Huh? 3:59p.m. on September 11, 2009

So lemme get this straight: Yale cracked down on Toad's expansion because it would encourage smoking, but the YDN will print a stogie review? Weird.

BTW: I do not know of anyone who, as suggested by the author, actually *inhales* cigar smoke.

Lastly: how 'bout them Tats, huh? Gooooood!

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