Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:

> I've also had the bottom just plain drop off of one as I was carrying
> it. Seems to me that that one was a cleaner break. At least it was
> beer, so only a few weeks attachment

I've had that happen... I had an old carboy with a large chipped lip,
and as I was moving it to the garbage outside I dinged it off the wall.
Most of it shattered into long, sharp shards, but the bottom sheared off
and stayed whole. Luckily enough it was empty.

--
charles

"Once ... in the wilds of Afghanistan, I lost my corkscrew, and we were
forced to live on nothing but food and water for days."
- W.C. Fields