Re: Greetings from Upper Redneckia!

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 21:32:29 -0400, Anen <anne.magee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Quoth Anen:
>
>>Quoth Stuart Rogers:
>>
>>>On 31/12/06 15:51, "Anen" wrote:
>>>> Quoth Alan Brand:
>>>>> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 23:36:32 -0400, Anen <anne.magee@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Anne. who bought a bottle of wine the other day and didn't buy a
>>>>>> corkscrew
>>>>> 
>>>>> For future reference: the empty wine bottle is recyclable; the
>>>>> corkscrew is re-usable. Don't throw the corkscrew away after one use
>>>>> next time.
>>>> 
>>>> I've never had a bockle of whine that needed a corkscrew before.
>>>
>>>Up until a few days ago I'd never had a bottle of wine that didn't
>>>need a corkscrew.  It was quite unsettling - a screw cap removes
>>>all sense of occasion that a good wine (and it was a good wine)
>>>deserves.
>>
>>Well, I went out and bought a corkscrew today. Damn thing cost as much
>>as the wine did. I'm gonna have to buy a lot more wine, just to get my
>>money's worth out of the thing.
>
>Replying to my own post to say that the corkscrew worked like a charm
>and I am now sipping happily from my bottle of Australian
>paint-stripper. Hic.

I didn't know that you spoke Latin. A New Year's Reso for you Anen ...
buy wine by the case to maximise the return on your corkscrew
investment.

We've just sent the kids (Amy and her cousins from the Big City) off
to bed and we're about to seriously dive into a selection of tasty
snacks and a motley collection of wine - our corkscrew will be red-hot
by midnight!

-- 
AlanB, sausage roll girl