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~ On the swallow subject - I know only the european stats, and could not comment on the african. Mention of coconuts by Mining Man is a red herring - its unlaiden remember... Of course it is, silly me. Although I'm pretty sure the herring is being used to fell the largest tree in the forest. A coco...

Funniest question I've ever heard regarding wine:

"MM, would you like another glass?"

Working fly in - fly out means 9 days straight without a drop. Although they do sell Rawson's Retreat at the wet mess.

As I said, 9 days straight without a drop.


I've then got 5 days off to bring the average up to 1-2 bottles per week.

... I could even tell you the average air-speed velocity of an unlaiden swallow... An African or European swallow? Although a definitive answer would of course require further measurements, published species-wide averages of wing length and body mass, initial Strouhal estimates based on those avera...

Bick wrote:... I could even tell you the average air-speed velocity of an unlaiden swallow...

An African or European swallow?

I don’t think anyone should fear posting on this forum ... ~ Oh, and I’m not convinced that too many of us on this forum take ourselves too seriously about wine. In fact some of us would like to be whole lot more serious about it! Mike I should probably clarify, that I'm not throwing ...

How about the balanced and unbiased view of an outsider? ... Okay, while we wait for him to turn up, I'll have a go. I think we need to be careful with some of the assumptions and generalisations being made here. There are thousands of students at Australian universities that have very, very poor en...

The screw tops at best is the intrim measure, perhaps is ok before the new and better closure arrives, I may tolerated the screw tops but certainly,but don't prefer it. I'm still die hard fan for cork closure, every now and then will have a tainted wine due to bad cork, that just like many things i...

Sentimental favourite is a bottle of '01 Magill Estate, bought for me by my then GF for my 30th. I wish we had the receipt still - it was purchased from the Wine Underground on Pirie St, Adelaide, which was destroyed when the building above blew up during a botched insurance job (I think the guy wa...