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								by BillMac   »  Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:51 pm 
			
			
			
			
			281 is a nice round number  
 
						
			
									
																
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
					
		
		
			
				
																			
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								by redwino   »  Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:33 pm 
			
			
			
			
			Im guessing 680
						
			
									
																
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
					
		
		
			
				
																			
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								by Von Ridler   »  Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:41 am 
			
			
			
			
			290 for me.
 
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								by Sharkey   »  Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:41 am 
			
			
			
			
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													Sharkey I love cooking with wine.  Sometimes I even put it in the food.
			
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
					
		
		
			
				
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								by Sarg   »  Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:31 pm 
			
			
			
			
			I'm going with 729  
  
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								by Nayan   »  Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:46 pm 
			
			
			
			
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								by Red Bigot   »  Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:22 pm 
			
			
			
			
			With a low guess of 164 and a high guess of 729, that's a pretty big range to play with yet.  I will give a clue then, it's somewhere between those two. 
 
						
			
									
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								by GrahamB   »  Wed Jan 09, 2008 3:58 pm 
			
			
			
			
			492
 
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								by dazza1968   »  Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:54 pm 
			
			
			
			
			247 !!!!! 
 
						
			
									
													Some people slurp it,others swill it,a few sip on it,some gaze at it for hours ,enough now wheres the RED
			
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
					
		
		
			
				
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								by dazza1968   »  Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:55 pm 
			
			
			
			
			nice jar  
 
						
			
									
													Some people slurp it,others swill it,a few sip on it,some gaze at it for hours ,enough now wheres the RED
			
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
					
		
		
			
				
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								by odyssey   »  Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:11 pm 
			
			
			
			
			306... plus the cork on top = 307 
 
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								by n4sir   »  Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:31 pm 
			
			
			
			
			How about one for each day of 2008 = 366 corks. 
 
						
			
									
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								by David   »  Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:49 pm 
			
			
			
			
			305
 
 But how many had TCA.
 
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								by GravyMaker   »  Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:22 am 
			
			
			
			
			I'll have a crack at 735...
 
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								by Rob   »  Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:17 am 
			
			
			
			
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													Cheers
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								by Red Bigot   »  Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:14 am 
			
			
			
			
			Just a reminder, entries will be accepted up to 5:43 pm on Tuesday 15th January 2008.
						
			
									
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								by Muscat Mike   »  Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:05 am 
			
			
			
			
			OK,
       I will have a go.
 345.
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								by drlev   »  Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:00 am 
			
			
			
			
			Red Bigot wrote: Just a reminder, entries will be accepted up to 5:43 pm on Tuesday 15th January 2008.
 
Just out of curiosity why 5:43 pm? As opposed to 5:44pm for instance?
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								by Red Bigot   »  Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:48 am 
			
			
			
			
			drlev wrote: Red Bigot wrote: Just a reminder, entries will be accepted up to 5:43 pm on Tuesday 15th January 2008.
Just out of curiosity why 5:43 pm? As opposed to 5:44pm for instance?
Cheers, Lev
 
It just happened to be the time I posted the original announcement of the competition on the 1st January.
 
						
			
									
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								by crusty2   »  Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:08 am 
			
			
			
			
			put me down for 598
						
			
									
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								by Christo   »  Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:55 pm 
			
			
			
			
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								by Red Bigot   »  Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:39 pm 
			
			
			
			
			And the winner is: grahamg   with a guess of 530.
 
 The actual number of corks in the jar is 526 + the cork top of the jar makes 527.
 
 Well done grahamg, please email or PM me with your postal address and your choice of which wine you want - Johns Blend or Fox Ck Reserve, both cabernets, both 98.
						
			
									
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								by John #11   »  Tue Jan 15, 2008 8:28 pm 
			
			
			
			
			Red Bigot, did yu drink all 526 bottles of wine in the last 2 months?
						
			
									
																
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
					
		
		
			
				
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								by Red Bigot   »  Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:02 pm 
			
			
			
			
			John #11 wrote: Red Bigot, did yu drink all 526 bottles of wine in the last 2 months?
 
John, I have no idea where you got 2 months from, it's more like 2 years (see earlier in this thread), almost entirely corks with branding on them, the others go for earlier re-cycling via a local retailer who collects them for craft people etc.
With tastings, dinners etc where I keep some/all of the corks I'd certainly average more than one cork per day.
 
						
			
									
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								by John #11   »  Tue Jan 15, 2008 9:11 pm 
			
			
			
			
			Just Kidding.
 
 We average about 1200 per year, but there are 4 of us.
						
			
									
																
						 
		 
				
		
		 
	 
	 
					
		
		
			
				
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								by grahamg   »  Wed Jan 16, 2008 9:46 am 
			
			
			
			
			Thank you very much for your generosity Red Bigot, I am already greatly in debt to you for the wine knowledge and tips you give both here and on your site. I have not yet had either of these wines so send which ever you like and know that I will savour it.
 Thanks again!
 grahamg
 
For anyone like me who spent too much time thinking about this game here is my equation Corks = r ^3  (6576.40 / F )  where r is the radius if the jar was a perfect sphere and F is the Fish Tank Volume from the last cork count competition (that had 1570 corks x pi x 4/3 = 6576,40). For the Fish Tank Volume I added 1cm to the height because it was filled over the top and a lucky guess of 15cm for the jar's radius.