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Don Coyote wrote:Marquis Phillips is the worst example of overoaked, over-extracted, excessively high alcohol wines that I've had the misfortune to gag down (in the spirit of polite company), anytime, anywhere. Neophyte North American cherry pickers and numbers chasers just lap this stuff up, and I don't understand why. It's rather like the emperor and his "new clothes," except that most of the onlookers still see pomp and brocade. It might be best described as a case of "sheeple" under the thrall of the Numbers Dictators, whose mandate is "Extraction, manipulation and excess."

Not for me, thank you very much.

Posting of the year so far. 9.5/10 losing 1/2 mark for 'brocaid' mispelling. The sentence, the sentiments, the meter, the metier: just magic!

Being on 99 posts I did not want my hundredth to be but a mere pathetic apology and correction.

I stand corrected thus:
10/10. The sentence, the sentiments, the meter, the metier: just magic!

Don Coyote wrote: "sheeple" .

What a magnificent and magical word.

Neville K wrote:Posting of the year so far. 9.5/10 losing 1/2 mark for 'brocaid' mispelling. The sentence, the sentiments, the meter, the metier: just magic!

Thanks Neville, but according to my Websters Dictionary, I spelled it correctly. Same with my MS Word Spell Check. Still, glad you like the sentiments expressed.

I had know idea it was that bad!
The bit with the guns is just amazing!

Smithy,
You might like to hire the video "Bowling For Columbine" by Michael Moore.
Its all about guns and USA. It includes him going into a certain bank there that actually gives you a gun when you open an account! Unreal!

Brucer

Sensational movie!

The TV series of Micheal Moore is an absolute hoot as well.

Worthy of a rental from the video shop!

Cheers
Smithy

Neville K wrote:
Being on 99 posts I did not want my hundredth to be but a mere pathetic apology and correction.

Don't you love the edit function?

I know I do!

Going to Michael Moore for an accurate impression of American society is about as reliable as going to Josef Goebbels for information about Jewish society.

Guest wrote:Going to Michael Moore for an accurate impression of American society is about as reliable as going to Josef Goebbels for information about Jewish society.

Hardly, Michael Moore is American after all and likes America he has preached the jingoistic "greatest country on earth" line before.

Fahrenheit 9-11 was very obviously biased and a disappointingly simplistic anti-Bush statement. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Bush either, but a good journalist wouldn't have that bias or at least I wouldn't be able to recognise it.

Columbine however (eerily relevant today) was much better - didn't preach and didn't offer the easy answer - "get rid of the guns" (i.e. Canada has just as many guns yet a tiny fraction of the gun deaths per capita)

Stupid White Men was also biased. Politically, Michael Moore comes across much more biased than other times.

Roger and me. Bad grammar, good documentary

The Awful Truth. Quality television

Everythings a big conspiracy.Not taken too seriously by any smart person so his conspiracys get wilder and wilder each time to satisfy his need for attention.

Guest wrote:Going to Michael Moore for an accurate impression of American society is about as reliable as going to Josef Goebbels for information about Jewish society.

I wouldn't say it better myself........

Don Coyote wrote:Marquis Phillips is the worst example of overoaked, over-extracted, excessively high alcohol wines that I've had the misfortune to gag down (in the spirit of polite company), anytime, anywhere. Neophyte North American cherry pickers and numbers chasers just lap this stuff up, and I don't understand why. It's rather like the emperor and his "new clothes," except that most of the onlookers still see pomp and brocade. It might be best described as a case of "sheeple" under the thrall of the Numbers Dictators, whose mandate is "Extraction, manipulation and excess."

Not for me, thank you very much.

hmmmm...."One can't dispute the taste", but...

I personally like EVERYTHING BIG...
women, food, wine, art, sex, literature, cars, guns, roses, statements, bank acounts, personalities,
which probably explains my love for this as big as they come juice.

Your milage may differ, and those difference in people is what makes life so exciting!

Serge wrote:well,
I got my case of MP and new Q45 Infinity.....believe it or not,
I am more excited about MP and how it will taste 4-5 years from now!

...and I would be too! You actually spent more than US$50,000 on a Nissan?? You can get a E-class or 5-series for that money. Kind of reminds me of some people here in Australia that dole out more than $150k for a Toyota...

All jokes aside, I have never tasted the wine in question however from the descriptions given above, I would have thought that a HumVee would be more to your liking..

mphatic wrote:

Serge wrote:well,
I got my case of MP and new Q45 Infinity.....believe it or not,
I am more excited about MP and how it will taste 4-5 years from now!

...and I would be too! You actually spent more than US$50,000 on a Nissan?? You can get a E-class or 5-series for that money. Kind of reminds me of some people here in Australia that dole out more than $150k for a Toyota...

All jokes aside, I have never tasted the wine in question however from the descriptions given above, I would have thought that a HumVee would be more to your liking..

re: HumVee...I like them "juicy". but not full of "cellulite"


As for Merc....I've had it, along with BMW 740 (previous edition, not the current whimzy one) and..Infinity hasn't spent a SINGLE day in 3 years in the repair shop, something I can't say the same about their German counterparts....and I can live happily knowing that the vallet guy wasn't impressed as much as he would be impressed with German metal and plastic


after all, the car is just a mean of getting you from point A to point B,
WINE is a LIFESTYLE