Did The Expression “close, But No Cigar” Originate With Bill Clinton When Hillary Lost The Democratic Primary?
February 16, 2010 by MBC Staff
Filed under Afficianado
The primary being the Presidential Primary Election. What significance would the cigar have? I don’t think Hillary smokes them.
“Close, but no cigar” originated with the traveling carnivals around the late 1800′s and early 1900′s. If you rang the bell with the sledgehammer (I hope you know the game I’m referring to), your prize was a cigar.
food prices up, soldiers dying in vain in Iraq, gas out of control, people losing their houses, unemployment up, and a fragile economy and your thinking about where the Clintons stick their cigars huh???
wow
Perhaps. It’s rumored Monica preferred ‘White Owls’ (a venerable cigar brand)….
lewinsky was smokin”" with bill in the oval office, how utterly disgusting!! for our nation!!
Yes, and sinclair is obama’s lewinsky.
You’re an idiot.
No! That was going around sense the depression!!! Silly