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How to Open a Bottle of Wine
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Yo, I think I know this neighborhood! I crashed in a nearby apartment with some long-lost relatives. I think.
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Geez, I wish I'd known this when I was in Europe...when drinking outside we ended up just buying boxed or screw-off top wine to save the trouble. Unfortunate.
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In college, a housemate tried it over a pile of my laundry and it went terribly wrong.
Very cool when it works. Very un-cool when it doesn't.
Very cool when it works. Very un-cool when it doesn't.
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@1, you have a Google alert for site:slog "jubilation", don't you? It's the only time you ever return here.
From the looks of it, he's had to do this ten or twelve times already this evening (if there are four of them). Six AM?
From the looks of it, he's had to do this ten or twelve times already this evening (if there are four of them). Six AM?
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wow. Looking at this post it's like y'all knew this all along-- c'mon for fuck's sake!
This is BRILLIANT! No Broken glass, clear control of the cork coming out, and well, fine: whatever you think of the french, this is manifest destiny in terms of a wine culture coming up with a low-tech solution to one of the world's greatest quandries (if you don't think so--shut up and keep drinking your budweiser)...
This is BRILLIANT! No Broken glass, clear control of the cork coming out, and well, fine: whatever you think of the french, this is manifest destiny in terms of a wine culture coming up with a low-tech solution to one of the world's greatest quandries (if you don't think so--shut up and keep drinking your budweiser)...
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er.. you do this with a pencil, right? you can do it with a stick too. you just have to know what you're doing. position spear-like object at top of corkscrew, bludgeon the other end with a rock or whatever is sitting next to you on the banks of the seine, and make sure the bottle isn't pointed anywhere near your eye.
if you have any money left, buy hash from the algerian kids sitting on the bench behind you.
if you have any money left, buy hash from the algerian kids sitting on the bench behind you.
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1) No one in this video is either cute or a kid.
2) Anyone who's faced at least two bottles of decent wine with no corkscrew and real shoes has learned one can easily open an bottle of cork-finished wine with a shoelace.
2) Anyone who's faced at least two bottles of decent wine with no corkscrew and real shoes has learned one can easily open an bottle of cork-finished wine with a shoelace.
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I've used a similar technique when I had severe constipation and didn't have recourse to a laxative.
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Trick learned from my sister: always buy thin tubes of mascara. Perfect for pushing the cork inside the bottle, you just gotta finish it in one night. If you do it carefully enough, you won't spill a drop, either.
I like this method a lot. Thanks Slog!
I like this method a lot. Thanks Slog!
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