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Subject: [Leica] WAS: Party pics and such... NOW: PORT! ;-)
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Tue Oct 10 04:03:39 2006
References: <6.1.0.6.2.20061009034339.083df160@192.168.100.42> <6.2.5.6.2.20061009125900.031bea20@screengang.com> <6.1.0.6.2.20061009131716.08418518@192.168.100.42> <6.2.5.6.2.20061010010107.0321efa0@screengang.com> <6.1.0.6.2.20061009162845.082d2140@192.168.100.42> <001a01c6ec10$5fc78160$a302a8c0@ted>

Absinthe.......Rimbaud.....................very cool and 
destructive......where can I get some?

Ted Grant wrote:

>>> absinthe <<
>>
>
> Cool stuff.... big headache! ;-)  Very wild in between!;-)
>
> However, my dear wife this evening opened a bottle of Port after 
> dinner that she was presented with by the Secretary to the Ambassador 
> of Portugal ..... ready?..... January  1975! :-)
>
>
> TRUE! :-) My wife was the attending nurse to the Secretary and because 
> she was so kind to her, the Secretary gave her this bottle of Port and 
> it sort of got lost as we moved from one side of our country to the 
> other 26 years ago and it never got opened, but lay in a wine rack 
> until this evening.:-)
>
> Big question between us was ....... "do you think it's still OK?"  
> "You go first."  " No you try a sip!"  I of course being the head of 
> the family, well OK for this taste testing moment only :-) I tried it 
> and it was fine.... 31 years after my wife was presented with the 
> bottle.:-) Actually it was very good! :-)
>
> Now of course if you should not ever hear from me again you'll know it 
> wasn't OK! ;-)
>
> But it tasted excellent. Unfortunately it does seem kind of a crime to 
> have had this bottle these many years and now we have to continue 
> drinking it until it's gone. :-( Oh well what the hell, I think I can 
> suffer through it to the end! ;-)
>
> ted
>
>
>
>
>
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Message from rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Party pics and such)
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