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Twas meant to be a smile/joke.
They're some of the dirt-cheap 'vintages' - cheap teenager and skidrow stuff.

Ha ha ,well the guy is hardly a wine connoisseur so maybe you are right !

Just thinking about the amount of the fine -- 75 bucks won't even get you a motel for the night around here , I was at a couple of bike shops the other day KTM $102/hr ,Kawi $92/hr labour charge .That kind of puts it in perspective .
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Twas meant to be a smile/joke.
They're some of the dirt-cheap 'vintages' - cheap teenager and skidrow stuff.
Don't forget the Boone's! Real high class wine-ish drink...
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Don't forget the Boone's! Real high class wine-ish drink...

My education is obviously lacking !
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Don't forget the Boone's! Real high class wine-ish drink...
Strawberry Hill is from the Vineyards de Boone, along with Apple and a few other chioce grapes. They usually age their fine wines, such as these, for many minutes. Another trademark is this winery is it's use of convenient screw top bottle closures, insuring freshness.

When their wines are forcefully expelled from the human stomach onto a lawn, the grass does not die. As a young lad very interested in unusual chemistry, I performed some interesting tests.
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When their wines are forcefully expelled from the human stomach onto a lawn, the grass does not die. As a young lad very interested in unusual chemistry, I performed some interesting tests.
Did we go to the same university?
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Four Way Stop

Why stop at a four way stop - heck, let the other three drivers will stop!

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Why stop at a four way stop - heck, let the other three drivers will stop!

Just kidding.
Spoken like a true Californian...LOL (the origin of the infamous "California roll")
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My education is obviously lacking !

I think we assumed you got the joke about the cheap wines. The drinks mentioned are ultra cheap liquors that are very popular in places like the skid rows of America, or college students who need to get drunk but can't afford enough to do the job.
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Drinky poos

Canucks don't drink sherry [much]
At a friend's party the hostess was distracted as she was serving drinks ,when she returned a couple of "rustics" had poured themselves a sherry -half pint glasses full of Harveys Bristol Cream and ice !
Very unusual .
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