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The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
"Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
Hoc spatio locantur.
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One of my dear friends worked at a specialty food & wine shop. My friend knows a lot about food but diddly squat about wines; the owner knew the wines by their first names (forgive the hyperbole). Nonetheless, every 4th customer, usually a woman, would demand my friend's opinion of the wine & not the owner's; because the owner was a woman & therefore could not possibly know about wines. But B, a guy, obviously did. They finally had a little routine where the owner would stand behind the customer's back & signal B about what opinion he should give.
Then the poor ignorant fellow (I really pity this one, no suckiness just lack of knowledge) who came in & asked what was a good year for Boeuf Bourguignonne. B blinked & said 'this one. I always get this year's. Alas, we don't carry that sir, but your grocery store might.' Poor guy wandered out again.I'm sorry, the person to whom you were speaking has been replaced by a recording. Please leave your message at the sound of the beep.
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Quoth TryNotToBeThatOne View PostThen the poor ignorant fellow (I really pity this one, no suckiness just lack of knowledge) who came in & asked what was a good year for Boeuf Bourguignonne. B blinked & said 'this one. I always get this year's. Alas, we don't carry that sir, but your grocery store might.' Poor guy wandered out again.
That is priceless. I would have loved to have seen the customer's face when he worked that one out.
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i'd say... when in doubt, white zin.
or if you really want to impress them, some nice ice-wine or muscato / late harvest blend
and i'm use to the cork wines but when i was in australia last year i went on a wine tasting tour and found that a lot of companies are going to the screw-cap types instead, in an attempt to prevent cork-rot issues
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Quoth Peppergirl View PostMy humblest apologies.
I occasionally drink a plum wine that has a screw top, too. It's yummy
Quoth marasbaras View PostCheap AND wants to pin the cheapness on you. Frankly, if the bottle is less than $20, I wouldn't give it as a gift. Just as a general policy to be safe.
edited to add: I'm sorry, I just realized that saying 'That's silly' sounds really condescending and trivializing... didn't mean it that way... just meant that you don't have to spend a ton of money to give something good *blush*GK/Kara/Jester fangirl.
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Quoth tollbaby View Postnot to hijack the thread, but that sounds delicious! what's it called?"So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13
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