Fringey's taut-abbed painter

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by ltl/fb
Especially when that was probably just Sidd's wife's way of asking Less to fuck her.

Or your wife.

Wow, that's hilarious. Did you write that yourself?

Which do you find improves your creative endeavors more -- the prozac or the lithium?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I got an answer here that I couldn't get easily from Google: "Other than icewine, no, there are no good Canadian wines."

I always thought the national wine of Canada was Snowshoe Grog. Regular wine freezes too quick.

(As opposed to, of course, the many fine Minnesota fortified wines.)

[ironnutsedge]

Originally posted by Penske

Sure. Icewine or Eiswein in Germany, is a late-harvest wine made from grapes pressed while frozen. Only three varieties of vinifera grape and Vidal may be used but usually it is made from Vidal and Riesling grapes. To make Icewine, the grapes are left on the vine until after the first frost hits. These grapes are harvested after being frozen in the vineyard and then, while still frozen, they are pressed. They must be picked early - before 10 a.m. During both of these processes the temperature cannot exceed -8 degrees C. At this temperature (-8 degrees C) the berries will freeze as hard as marbles. While the grape is still in its frozen state, it is pressed and the water is driven out as shards of ice. This leaves a highly concentrated juice, very high in acids, sugars and aromatics.

For this you came outta retirement? Give Slave the dartboard back, you fraud.

[robustpuppy]

Because I said I would.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by ironnutsedge
For this you came outta retirement? Give Slave the dartboard back, you fraud.

After spending so much time building up this Slothrop sock, you'd think I could have found a better pay-off. Oh the humanity! That's it -- I retire again. And I'm retiring all of my socks, too, including:

The Seven-Year Itch
Gregory Feck
Alberto "Speedy" Gonzales
Flinty McFlint
Hanna Barbera and her Sisters

Thanks and good night!

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I got an answer here that I couldn't get easily from Google: "Other than icewine, no, there are no good Canadian wines."

Speaking of places with no good wine, our local wine shop lady talked us into trying a NY State wine recently. Something called Potato Barn. It did indeed taste like a potato barn. (Literally. It tasted like it had been aged in a slightly moldy potato crate. It was quite remarkable.)

In other news, two friends and one family member have recently bought vinyards in South Africa. Is this some new trend? None of them profess to know anything about wine other than "drinking: fun!" The wines produced by one of the vinyards are actually pretty nice.

(S African reds tend to have all the subtlety of a rabid buffalo, but if you like heavier whites some of the whites are reliable and even quite good. I'm guessing SA is developing like CA and then Australia did - first the whites become drinkable, and the reds eventually start to catch up. As opposed to Chile or Romania, where there are quite drinkable red plonks but the whites taste like paint thinner with yellow food coloring. For $7 this past halloween, on a lark I got a bottle of a Transylvanian red called "Vampyre" or something, and it was actually, shockingly, pretty good. And I wasn't yet wasted when we opened it.)

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
I got an answer here that I couldn't get easily from Google: "Other than icewine, no, there are no good Canadian wines."

Actually, okanagan wine and niagara-on-the-lake wines are pretty good. Just not the international reputation of Icewine.

Apropos of Cdn wines, my friend gave me some Canadian maple wine over the holidays. I am scared to try it. Maple wine?

[bilmore]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Apropos of Cdn wines, my friend gave me some Canadian maple wine over the holidays. I am scared to try it. Maple wine?

It's not bad mulled. Think "mead".

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Actually, okanagan wine and niagara-on-the-lake wines are pretty good. Just not the international reputation of Icewine.

Apropos of Cdn wines, my friend gave me some Canadian maple wine over the holidays. I am scared to try it. Maple wine?

See, I've never known what to order with pancakes. Now I have my answer. Does IHOP have a good selection of maple wines?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
Actually, okanagan wine and niagara-on-the-lake wines are pretty good. Just not the international reputation of Icewine.

Apropos of Cdn wines, my friend gave me some Canadian maple wine over the holidays. I am scared to try it. Maple wine?

I'm going with the torso look too. Wanna get some coffee?

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
See, I've never known what to order with pancakes. Now I have my answer. Does IHOP have a good selection of maple wines?

Good Austrian schnapps tastes great on pancakes. Seriously.

[Oliver_Wendell_Ramone]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Good Austrian schnapps tastes great on pancakes. Seriously.

please change your avatar back. I think it's scaring people off.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
please change your avatar back. I think it's scaring people off.

They are all intimidated by my briefs.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
I'm going with the torso look too. Wanna get some coffee?

Why don't we just head straight to my place. Grrrrr.

[ltl/fb]

Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Wow, that's hilarious. Did you write that yourself?

Which do you find improves your creative endeavors more -- the prozac or the lithium?

Nerve hit? Going straight to the stupid medication jokes is very wanker-y of you.