Quick Quizz

markg · Post by **markg** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 10:17 am

What is a GLOOP ?

TORB · Post by **TORB** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:54 am

A perfect example of my spelling? :oops:

markg · Post by **markg** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:04 pm

TORB wrote:A perfect example of my spelling?

HarHar

Clue: It usually involves a car and a cellar door.

Brett Stevens · Post by **Brett Stevens** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 12:50 pm

Quote from www.wilsonvineyard.com.au

Alright Mark whats my prize. i will be in Adelaide in a fortnight so i will be able to transport the case for nothing. rather than have you send it over!!

Brett

"We call them "gloops", the chaps in the Barossa call them "runners"; every winery has them but no-one seems to know why.

They are the people who drive, often some distance, to a winery, but having got there, just turn the car around, and drive out again.

We never get to meet these people, and therefore remain mystified by their behaviour, but assume that for some reason our external appearance fails to fulfil their expectations.

We do know some things; red cars have an unusually high involvement in this behaviour; and currently about one car in 30 that drives in to the winery turns out to be a gloop.

Over the years we have encountered people who admit to having glooped elsewhere, and with some quite valid reasons.

We can quite understand the people who drove on when they found thirty cars and two tourist buses in the winery car park. Then there were the people who had arranged to meet friends "if we're not at winery A, we'll be at B or C".

In the old days when we sold from a spartan looking shed, one in 7 was a gloop. The inference is that three quarters of people who have glooped at sheds are favourably influenced by stone buildings, rose gardens, and shady trees for car-parking.

We're always looking at ways to improve facilities, but sometimes we need feedback from customers.

We'd like to hear from anyone who is prepared to admit that they've glooped at a winery, not necessarily ours, and for reasons other than those already mentioned above. For the best gloop tale we will send a case of wine, and the next ten will each receive a three-bottle pack. We undertake not to publish any names.

And the origin of the term "gloop"? It started off as a contraction of "going around in loops", with an appealing rhyme with snoop, until someone came up with the acronymous "getting lost on outings people"."

markg · Post by **markg** » Fri Mar 26, 2004 1:44 pm

Good work Brett !

I found the reference to that exact same article in an old Winestate magazine (1991 I think) , it got me thinking as I have been walking out of a cellar door and seen people Glooping and wondered about it myself

Hey, if you have some time in Adelaide, perhaps we could arrange an offline or something ?