Chris Coad
Chris Coad
I think a thread where everyone has absolutely no idea what's going on is a perfect tribute to traditional values.
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I miss the old days
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John Roberts
John Roberts
Seven pillars? I thought this was the fifth column.
Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
who's counting?
Jeff Davidson
Jeff Davidson
"I think a thread where everyone has absolutely no idea what's going on is a perfect tribute to traditional values."
That sounds suspiciously like something Adolf Hitler might say Aren't we all talking about the sous réserve de la journée, Donald Trump?
For example, "Seven pillars? I thought this was the fifth column." The fifth column these days is the fourth estate. And who's at war with the fourth estate? QED! prongs and columns: references to the donald's hand size (or lack thereof). Qua!
speaking of sine qua non, it seems to me what this board really needs is a steve plotnicki character. There's way too much agreement on the merits of say poulsard.
That sounds suspiciously like something Adolf Hitler might say Aren't we all talking about the sous réserve de la journée, Donald Trump?
For example, "Seven pillars? I thought this was the fifth column." The fifth column these days is the fourth estate. And who's at war with the fourth estate? QED! prongs and columns: references to the donald's hand size (or lack thereof). Qua!
speaking of sine qua non, it seems to me what this board really needs is a steve plotnicki character. There's way too much agreement on the merits of say poulsard.
originally posted by Jeff Davidson:
speaking of sine qua non pillars, it seems to me what this board really needs is a steve plotnicki character. There's way too much agreement on the merits of say poulsard.
First of all, I object most strenuously to the use of "sine qua non" in the context of wine. Some of us have weak stomachs, you know. Secondly, re the agreement here: isn't that why we have Brad? Someone to tell us that that delicious Burgundy is too thin and that the dry Chenin is totally lacking in fruit? I'm sure that I read that somewhere.
Mark Lipton
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Jeff Davidson:
speaking of sine qua non pillars, it seems to me what this board really needs is a steve plotnicki character. There's way too much agreement on the merits of say poulsard.
First of all, I object most strenuously to the use of "sine qua non" in the context of wine. Some of us have weak stomachs, you know. Secondly, re the agreement here: isn't that why we have Brad? Someone to tell us that that delicious Burgundy is too thin and that the dry Chenin is totally lacking in fruit? I'm sure that I read that somewhere.
Mark Lipton
True. And we don't really want Steve (or Steve lookalikes). We've already got . . . Pete!
Just a few short weeks ago, mentioning the virtues of Vin Jaune awakened the slumbering curmudgeon(s), so I'm not entirely sure that everyone here is in lockstep.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Not to mention that there's a big difference between alternative facts and alternative factotums.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
I always prefer my factotums largo.originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Not to mention that there's a big difference between alternative facts and alternative factotums.
Note: The link was provided to me by the Politburo's Minister of Culture.
Lou Kessler
Lou Kessler
Chris is disturbed because Trump added Roosevelt Island to the list of seven hostile places.
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I always prefer my factotums largo.originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Not to mention that there's a big difference between alternative facts and alternative factotums.
Note: The link was provided to me by the Politburo's Minister of Culture.
Ah, the requiem for Mar-o-Largo.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
Just BecauseChris is disturbed because Trump added Roosevelt Island to the list of seven hostile places.
We are a sanctuary island!
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
I'm still in touch with Sue Ng, could probably get her to start posting again.
Sue! Tell her hi from me!
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
Hi Ng has a certain ring to it.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
Bellissimo!originally posted by Oswaldo Costa:
Hi Ng has a certain ring to it.
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
However, if you ask me (and you knew you were about to, no?), this place has been going to hell in a handbasket since:
1: ...that Loire Schnauzer guy got such a swelled head over the response to his reviews here that he stopped posting in favor of using it in his "Romorantin Roamings" newsletter. Nobody's heard from him since, and I'm forced to depend on Brad (and occasionally Pascaline's) recommendations.
2: ...prongs stopped being the coin of the realm. I really think that the prong ratings were good for the site. They gave us an easy-to-use standard by which to decide whether or not to try a particular wine at a jeebus, much less buy the thing for our cellars. Everybody else uses numbers or stars or letters or broccoli florets, but in my multiple years of experience, 'tis prongs that provide the most accuracy and thought-fodder.
3. ...that week we all posted here in Esperanto certainly drew attention from the other wine boards and brought aboard a whole raft of new disorderlies, but google translate wasn't as good then (or maybe our group's Esperanto skills weren't up to par) and it just came off as a jumble of mumbo-jumboed nonsense. I did think that Don Rice's exploration of Esperanto alternatives (transcribed into Sanskrit, IIRC) was brilliant, and the hand-etched letterpress limited edition block print he offered still hangs over my desk, right behind the fern dangling in the macramé hanger. But, I digress. Google translate is now much better, in fact it's like artificial intelligence. Maybe we could pick a week and each post something that we'd translate into another language and then again into like four more languages and then translate it back into English and we could see if it's exactly the same as the first thing we wrote. My bet is that there's gonna be some changes. Like adverbs get messed up, and exclamation marks get put! in the wrong places. Kind of like the new Secretary of Education recommends, but as I've already said before now, I digress. Not my intent. My intent is actually a camper van, because whenever I'm intent, I get cold and (invariably) rained on.
Hear Here! Let's join together to make the bored grater again!!!
-Eden (and don't stop eschewing obfuscatory negations too!!)
1: ...that Loire Schnauzer guy got such a swelled head over the response to his reviews here that he stopped posting in favor of using it in his "Romorantin Roamings" newsletter. Nobody's heard from him since, and I'm forced to depend on Brad (and occasionally Pascaline's) recommendations.
2: ...prongs stopped being the coin of the realm. I really think that the prong ratings were good for the site. They gave us an easy-to-use standard by which to decide whether or not to try a particular wine at a jeebus, much less buy the thing for our cellars. Everybody else uses numbers or stars or letters or broccoli florets, but in my multiple years of experience, 'tis prongs that provide the most accuracy and thought-fodder.
3. ...that week we all posted here in Esperanto certainly drew attention from the other wine boards and brought aboard a whole raft of new disorderlies, but google translate wasn't as good then (or maybe our group's Esperanto skills weren't up to par) and it just came off as a jumble of mumbo-jumboed nonsense. I did think that Don Rice's exploration of Esperanto alternatives (transcribed into Sanskrit, IIRC) was brilliant, and the hand-etched letterpress limited edition block print he offered still hangs over my desk, right behind the fern dangling in the macramé hanger. But, I digress. Google translate is now much better, in fact it's like artificial intelligence. Maybe we could pick a week and each post something that we'd translate into another language and then again into like four more languages and then translate it back into English and we could see if it's exactly the same as the first thing we wrote. My bet is that there's gonna be some changes. Like adverbs get messed up, and exclamation marks get put! in the wrong places. Kind of like the new Secretary of Education recommends, but as I've already said before now, I digress. Not my intent. My intent is actually a camper van, because whenever I'm intent, I get cold and (invariably) rained on.
Hear Here! Let's join together to make the bored grater again!!!
-Eden (and don't stop eschewing obfuscatory negations too!!)
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
broccoli florets
cauliflower
Karen Goetz
Karen Goetz
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
originally posted by Eden Mylunsch:
broccoli florets
cauliflower
Things got funny and smart here again! Eden!!! Everyone! Without being Meanies. Nice.
I'm curious to study the systematics of prong evolution. Fraught perhaps with the not insignificant burden of gendered appendages? Can this be a relict of (unconscious, I'm sure!) gender projection (or fantasy for some folks) skulking or even lurking, g-D forbid?
I almost want to suggest pussies instead of prongs but I'm afraid of all of you! So very afraid. "Pussies" is vulnerable to old bad habits/old school ugliness remarks by Meanies and Vulgarians. Perhaps "tongues" as a measure of happiness with a wine? It almost rhymes with prongs. And most people have one. 3 tongues and one of them forked, even, to Baudry 2014 Grezeaux.
Jay Miller
Jay Miller
originally posted by Jeff Davidson:
speaking of sine qua non, it seems to me what this board really needs is a steve plotnicki character. There's way too much agreement on the merits of say poulsard.
I'm off poulsard since Chris convinced me it doesn't age. From now on I'll only cellar Donnhoff.
I'm off poulsard since Chris convinced me it doesn't age.
Really!