£2,700 for a used cigar... What would Churchill think?
SOME people certainly have money to burn – in a very literal sense.
An individual who seems to have more money than sense has just blown £2,700 on a 1943 cigar allegedly partly smoked by Winston Churchill.
How can he ever be sure that it is an authentic relic of the great wartime leader?
But even if it is – so what? Does he put it in a glass case and proudly show it off to his less than impressed friends?
I can understand the keenness of some people to collect wartime memorabilia. But I would not put the stub of an 80-plus-year-old cigar in that category.
It is a bit like purchasing a bottle of Victorian wine, which may be full of ditch-water because the purchaser will never drink it.
You cannot stop a man with money to burn. It is just that I can think of about a million other, and better, ways to spend it.