Two bits of news

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SFJoe

Joe Dougherty
Big articleabout Diageo Chateau and Estates liquidating lots of Bordeaux and crushing the market in the US.

I don't buy much current Bdx, so this isn't immediately relevant to me, but buried down in paragraph 6 is this shocking news: There really is a Monsieur Touton!!

I always thought M. Touton was a notional brand figure--Tony the Tiger, Aunt Jemima, what have you. But no--it turns out he's a real guy!
 
Gotta love lines like, "In 1637, tulip prices crashed, never to recover."

But I'm really chortling over this goof, "And some merchants have moved to stench the flow of discounted wine..."

I don't think I've ever liked anything imported by M. Touton.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

I don't think I've ever liked anything imported by M. Touton.
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That's putting it mildly. The notion that there is more than $100 million of that stuff coming into NY is horrifying.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
...buried down in paragraph 6 is this shocking news: There really is a Monsieur Touton!!

I always thought M. Touton was a notional brand figure--Tony the Tiger, Aunt Jemima, what have you. But no--it turns out he's a real guy!
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Yeah, right, and next you'll be telling us there really is a Colonel Sanders.
 
originally posted by Steve Guattery:

originally posted by SFJoe: ...buried down in paragraph 6 is this shocking news: There really is a Monsieur Touton!!

I always thought M. Touton was a notional brand figure--Tony the Tiger, Aunt Jemima, what have you. But no--it turns out he's a real guy!
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Yeah, right, and next you'll be telling us there really is a Colonel Sanders.
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 But of course.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gotta love lines like, "In 1637, tulip prices crashed, never to recover."

But I'm really chortling over this goof, "And some merchants have moved to stench the flow of discounted wine..."

I don't think I've ever liked anything imported by M. Touton.
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I get the goof but not the tulips. Are you saying that prices did ever recover or is there a grammar problem I'm missing? I had thought that prices didn't recover (at the height one sought after tulip bulb cost as much as a ton of butter and I believe prices measured in skilled labor hours was in terms of weeks and not in terms of hours). But I'll happily be corrected since I am not an economist.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:

I get the goof but not the tulips. Are you saying that prices did ever recover or is there a grammar problem I'm missing? I had thought that prices didn't recover (at the height one sought after tulip bulb cost as much as a ton of butter and I believe prices measured in skilled labor hours was in terms of weeks and not in terms of hours). But I'll happily be corrected since I am not an economist.
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I believe that at issue is the tone of the sentence, in which the crash of an infamous economic bubble is described using wistful language. Or such is my take.

Mark Lipton
 
Jeff,

I was going to post this poem, which I heard on NPR this morning, to respond to your easy sense of humor. Then you deleted that post and I thought better of it. Then I decided that I just liked the poem:

Diagnosis

by Sharon Olds

By the time I was six months old, she knew something
was wrong with me. I got looks on my face
she had not seen on any child
in the family, or the extended family,
or the neighborhood. My mother took me in
to the pediatrician with the kind hands,
a doctor with a name like a suit size for a wheel:
Hub Long. My mom did not tell him
what she thought in truth, that I was Possessed.
It was just these strange looks on my face
he held me, and conversed with me,
chatting as one does with a baby, and my mother
said, Shes doing it now! Look!
Shes doing it now! and the doctor said,
What your daughter has
is called a sense
of humor. Ohhh, she said, and took me
back to the house where that sense would be tested
and found to be incurable.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

I don't think I've ever liked anything imported by M. Touton.
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That's putting it mildly. The notion that there is more than $100 million of that stuff coming into NY is horrifying.
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come on guys, baumard isn't terrible...
 
originally posted by scottreiner:
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

I don't think I've ever liked anything imported by M. Touton.
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That's putting it mildly. The notion that there is more than $100 million of that stuff coming into NY is horrifying.
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come on guys, baumard isn't terrible...
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Yeah, let the stench fill the gutters of Manhattan. We could turn NYC into a giant Costco.
 
originally posted by scottreiner:
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:

I don't think I've ever liked anything imported by M. Touton.
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That's putting it mildly. The notion that there is more than $100 million of that stuff coming into NY is horrifying.
Click to expand...

come on guys, baumard isn't terrible...
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I'm sure M. Touton is also very kind to children and animals.
 
Any chance this will some way impact the price of wine that really matters?
Of course, that might be bad news for someone like Joe. . .
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
I was going to post this poem, which I heard on NPR this morning, to respond to your easy sense of humor. Then you deleted that post and I thought better of it.
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Sorry about that. I just thought Mark did a nice succinct job of stating my position.

Then I decided that I just liked the poem:
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Me, too.
 
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