"Anders Tørneskog" > wrote in message
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> "Tom S" > skrev i melding
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>> ... Even a cheap cork is about _double_ the price of a synthetic corq.
>> 20 years ago I bought 50cm "extra first" corks for ~10¢ apiece.
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> Wow, I've never seen a cork 20 inches long...! How big are the bottles?
> :-) Anders

Wups! That darned metric system got me again. :^/
Should have been 50mm. Next time I'll just say 2 inches.

Tom S