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Frank Deis

Frank Deis
On "another forum" someone was asking about a le Pin dinner.

Recent vintages of le Pin can cost as much as $5000 PER BOTTLE.

Am I alone in thinking that this is a little unseemly given the economic conditions in the country recently?

Don't you have to be one of those guys with the 2 billion dollar bonus to even contemplate a le Pin cellar?

Am I wrong to have been offended by this conspicuous consumption?

It just put me in mind of these jerks who fly to DC in their private jets to ask for a bail-out.

I just watched "Reds" and ordered a copy of "Ten Days that Shook the World" and I am feeling some weird resonance with the state of America these days.

Just wondering if I'm crazy/alone in this?

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(PS I reread Mayakovsky's short poem and FELT it, which was fucking scary)
 
I'm reading Galbraith's "The Great Crash," which is brilliant.

I can't get upset about a Le Pin dinner right now, too many distracting claims on my outrage.
 
What would be the consequences of nationalizing Le Pin drinkers? I understand there is historical precedent, but what's the downside?
 
originally posted by Frank Deis:
Am I alone in thinking that this is a little unseemly given the economic conditions in the country recently?
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If you ask me, this sentence should stop just before the word 'given.'.
Best, Jim
 
My sense is that the view from the Third World, and working class America, is that spending more than $50 on a bottle of wine--except for some well-aged bottles of Huet or the odd bottle of Cote Rotie--is obscene, insensitive, and a cultural slap in the face to struggling people everywhere.
 
Remember: it's what's in the bottle that counts.
If people spend their money on this, then maybe they leave the lower priced wines for me and my pals. And don't go there with communism: my dead relatives can attest to its unworthiness as an economic system.
 
originally posted by skirsch:
Outragespending more than $50 on a bottle of wine--except for some well-aged bottles of Huet or the odd bottle of Cote Rotie--is obscene
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How did you arrive at that threshold?
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by skirsch:
Outragespending more than $50 on a bottle of wine--except for some well-aged bottles of Huet or the odd bottle of Cote Rotie--is obscene
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How did you arrive at that threshold?
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I delicately plucked it out of my anus. No, No, I mean, it was the voice of the people that I heard.
 
originally posted by skirsch:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
originally posted by skirsch:
Outragespending more than $50 on a bottle of wine--except for some well-aged bottles of Huet or the odd bottle of Cote Rotie--is obscene
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How did you arrive at that threshold?
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I delicately plucked it out of my anus..
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Sounds about right.

Because when you spend those $51 there are a lot of people gaining legitimate livelihoods off of your money. Greasing the economic wheels of several countries and all.

$5051 per bottle may be a little different and may involve a bit more 'excess' cost.
 
originally posted by skirsch:
originally posted by Rahsaan:
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originally posted by skirsch:
Outragespending more than $50 on a bottle of wine--except for some well-aged bottles of Huet or the odd bottle of Cote Rotie--is obscene
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The people who spend more than we do are obscene, and the people who drive faster than us are idiots. The truth in all that is self-apparent, isn't it? Q.E.D.
 
originally posted by Bwood:
...the people who drive faster than us are idiots.
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Yeah, and so are those who drive slower. And don't get me started on the bozos who drive the same speed, usually right up in my blind spot. I can't imagine the fool who is issuing licenses to all those bozos!
 
originally posted by Steve Guattery:
originally posted by Bwood:
...the people who drive faster than us are idiots.
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Yeah, and so are those who drive slower. And don't get me started on the bozos who drive the same speed, usually right up in my blind spot. I can't imagine the fool who is issuing licenses to all those bozos!
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I generally think of the people who drive slower than me as "aged dodderers." I think "bozos" generally means people who do things like pass on the shoulder of the road or maybe drive a PT Cruiser.
 
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