Expect some new faces- The Parker/Squire's Board goes subscription only

originally posted by Brad Kane:
So, Chris, in your eyes, discriminating based on intelligence and tastes is different from discriminating based on sexual preference or optical requirements?
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Not Chris, but..um...well, yes. It's my job to discriminate based on intelligence and I would be fired for discriminating on sexual preference. Optical requirements is suppose are variably relevant. Choosing one's company as a result of taste, at least one's own, is probably universal.
 
originally posted by John Ritchie:
Hi. I registered last night. I've never posted on eBob, but once I read a thread about premature oxidation there that almost caused me to prematurely expire. I've lurked here for a while and decided I would subject myself to the abuse of this board's denizens. I wish I had a survey for you all to take about what your favorite varietal wines are but I think I'm coming up a little short there for now. Perhaps in due time.

Pleased to meet all of you, and we'll see if I can last longer than a day.
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You do jump into the fire, John.
BTW, do you know about the prong system of assessing wine?
Best, Jim
 
At eBob, I would be poised to post, and then I'd think to myself "Dave, you don't have a law degree. If you post here about your secret desire for Brandi Jocelyn Pack, you'll be the Robbie Feaver of the wine world."

I couldn't live with that, now could I?
 
I turn to justbookpoints.com for all my text investment needs. Although, I do get burned from time to time. I bought a few cases of Yann Martel's Life of Pi intending to flip them after it got a 94 - hell of a score for a debut release - and now that Lit Advocate gave Beatrice and Virgil a 78, I can't flip that stuff on novelbid.com for much more than what I paid for it. Damn economy. I remember before the bubble burst these hedge fund guys would come in and buy cases of books no-one had even read yet so long as the authors were magical realists from South America or former Soviet client states and someone had slapped the 90+ on it.
 
originally posted by Brad Kane:
So, Chris, in your eyes, discriminating based on intelligence and tastes is different from discriminating based on sexual preference or optical requirements?
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"Optical requirements"??
 
originally posted by Chris Coad:
originally posted by Brad Kane:
So, Chris, in your eyes, discriminating based on intelligence and tastes is different from discriminating based on sexual preference or optical requirements?
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"Optical requirements"??
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All I get from google is specs for telescopes.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Thor:
I knew someone would take me up on that. Note that I didn't promise to drink Mollydooker.
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A famous winemaker told me the other day that he'd consumed the entire Mollydooker line on a bet once. He said it took him a long time. He really consumed each bottle.
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Is he dead yet?
 
originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
Most English majors would rate Milton in a very Parkeresque fashion. Spend a few minutes on it, declare it great, and never touch it again.
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We've now started thread drifts across thread. I don't know if this is an advance or a decline, but it probably will ulitmately mean that to understand anything here, everybody will have to read everything, which should keep population low.
 
originally posted by Steven Spielmann:
and now that Lit Advocate gave Beatrice and Virgil a 78, I can't flip that stuff on novelbid.com for much more than what I paid for it.
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Shoulda stuck with your allocation of Beezus and Ramona instead of Beatrice and Virgil. B&R received consistent ratings in the 90s (and this is since the 1960s) so that means that it continues to do well in the Asian market. I've heard tales of where they tuck copies of People Magazine inside its covers so that it looks like they know what they're doing, but those are probably just rumours of people who've been priced out of the market.

-Eden (even I sometimes look like I know what I'm doing)
 
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
originally posted by SFJoe:
originally posted by Thor:
I knew someone would take me up on that. Note that I didn't promise to drink Mollydooker.
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A famous winemaker told me the other day that he'd consumed the entire Mollydooker line on a bet once. He said it took him a long time. He really consumed each bottle.
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Is he dead yet?
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He's pretty tough, but he's a shadow of his former self.
 
originally posted by Florida Jim:
originally posted by John Ritchie:
Hi. I registered last night. I've never posted on eBob, but once I read a thread about premature oxidation there that almost caused me to prematurely expire. I've lurked here for a while and decided I would subject myself to the abuse of this board's denizens. I wish I had a survey for you all to take about what your favorite varietal wines are but I think I'm coming up a little short there for now. Perhaps in due time.

Pleased to meet all of you, and we'll see if I can last longer than a day.
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You do jump into the fire, John.
BTW, do you know about the prong system of assessing wine?
Best, Jim
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I don't think you'll be able to ge rid of Ritchie that easily, he's probably a lost Albanian.
I'll miss the food board on Parker and some movie reviews in the Social Hall but there hasn't been anything that interesting about wine in a long time.
Oh, my title mentioning Kane. In a nutshell Kane at WD you're loved. I know this seems to contradict the info about the residents of this board having impeccable taste but it's true.
FL Jim, my God man you're universally known on 38 other wine boards through-out
the known universe.
 
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