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In article >, says...
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>Outstanding, Dale. My nominee for the 2005 Piet Beertema Prize (if any).
>(Beertema was the Netherlands Internet pioneer who posted the forged
>newsgroup message from the Kremlin,1 April 1984, the so-called kremvax
>episode. He later was knighted, though not I think for that.)
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>"Emery Davis"in :
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>> The continuity dept has a brief question:
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>> On 23 Aug 2005 11:03:23 -0700, "DaleW" > said:
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>> ] Here I knocked off the neck of a bottle which I drew
>> ] from a long row of its fellows that lay upon the mould.
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>> Had you a sabre handy? ...
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>> Did no one slice up lips on this jagged cup?
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>Yes yes yes. Moderns always raise that point about the original story. Poe
>was a bit of a hustler and did not hesitate to make up details that sounded
>cool. People may have commonly opened bottles the quick way without even a
>sword, but Poe would not necessarily have known that. Also, you can pour
>wine into yourself from a bottle held on high without risking cuts -- it
>would be a flourish worthy of the story, too.
You know, this last method might well be worse than those little plastic "
tasting cups," that some wine tastings offer - pouring into the mouth from on
high. Where's the Riedel?!?!?!?
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