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Today’s Wine:
Large libations-Raise a glass – 1,200 of them to be exact – to New Jersey, new home to the world’s largest bottle of wine. A Tenafly, N.J., business paid $55,812 for a 4 1/2 -foot tall bottle of cabernet sold Saturday at Sotheby’s, said auction house spokeswoman Kristin Gelder. Wine Ventures, a wine and chocolate shop, plans to put the bottle on display at its Bergen County business. The 340-pound bottle was the work of master glass blowers in the Czech Republic, and holds the equivalent of 173 standard bottles of Beringer Vineyards 2001 Private Reserve Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. That translates to 1,200 glasses of wine. The bottle, dubbed Maximus, was certified as the world’s largest by the Guinness World Records. The Morton’s steakhouse chain, to celebrate its 25th anniversary, partnered with Beringer to create the record-setting bottle of wine. It was also reported that it took 258 Czech women 9 days to stomp the grapes used in the wine said Dulia Polanski "my feet are still blue but my ingrown toes nails are no longer a problem." –The Associated Press

Pot in the News:
Souder urges court to halt medical ‘pot’
WASHINGTON – A case before the Supreme Court next week will likely determine whether marijuana can legally be used as a medicine, and Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, has offered the justices a raft of arguments why states should be barred from allowing medicinal uses of “pot.” Souder and Hoosier Rep. Dan Burton, R-5th, with five other Republican lawmakers, filed a friend-of-the-court brief that says medical marijuana laws – approved by voters in 10 states – is not a states’ rights issue and that allowing the medicinal use of marijuana leads to state and local law enforcement agencies becoming “increasingly hostile to federal drug policies” and communities “becom(ing) economically dependent on the drug.” The case involves the seizure of marijuana plants grown by two California women who use marijuana to alleviate severe pain. Medical marijuana is legal in California. Souder while taking a break from his cause to have the state of Indiana’s capital renamed Regeanapolis, told reporters that between this and renaming I-69 he has been to busy to act on intelligence reform legislation. Souder is a close personal friend of Governor-Elect Mitch Daniels and received large campaign contributions from Indiana based Eli Lilly.

Book of the Day:
New book tackles taboo questions
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Why do so many senior citizens drive such big cars? What do people who have been blind since birth “see” in their dreams? Why can a black man look good in a purple suit, while a white guy would look like a total dork? Questions like these, which may be too politically incorrect to be uttered out loud, have found a place amid the anonymity of the Internet. And Phillip J. Milano believes the site he started – Y? The National Forum on People’s Differences – can actually help bridge the gaps that divide people by race, religion and background. “Sooner or later, we have to find a way to talk about these things,” said Milano, whose seven-year-old Web site has topped 10 million hits and spawned a new book, “I Can’t Believe You Asked That! A No-Holds-Barred Q&A About Race, Sex, Religion and Other Terrifying Topics,” published by Perigee. On his Web site, yforum.com, people are free to post questions and reply on a variety of sometime sensitive topics. The book, on the other hand, gets real experts to address such questions such as: Are white people more sexually perverse than those of other races? Milano, who is white, wrote his first book, “Why Do White People Smell Like Wet Dogs When They Come in Out of the Rain?” in 1999 and it was based on questions and answers on his Web site. (The book gets its title from a phenomenon some black readers claimed to have noticed; the book could not confirm the observation, and noted that human perception of smell is subjective.)

Saint of the Day:
St. Chrysogonus; Feastday: November 24
St. Chrysogonus Martyr November 24 Fifth century The name of this holy martyr, who was apprehended at Rome, but beheaded at Aquileia in the persecution of Dioclesian, occurs in the canon of the mass, and is mentioned in the ancient Calendar of Carthage of the fifth century, and in all Western Martyrologies since that time. The church in Rome of which he is titular saint, is mentioned in a council held by pope Symmachus, and in the epistles of St. Gregory the Great; it gives title to a cardinal priest. The head of St. Chrysogonus is shown there in a rich case, but his body is at Venice.

Mental Disease and/or defect of the Day:
Histrionic Personality Disorder
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

1) is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
2) displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
3)) is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
4) considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are.

Bar Trick of the Day:
DRINK A SHOT FROM AN UNOPENED BOTTLE
Tell a bar guest that you can drink a shot from an unopened bottle of B & B!
Here's how its done: Simply turn your bottle of B & B upside down and pour a shot into the bottom of the bottle, and drink it. You have fulfilled your end of the bargain - you have taken a shot directly from the unopened bottle.

Poem of the Day:

When everything was fine
And the notion of sin had vanished
And the earth was ready
In universal peace
To consume and rejoice
Without creeds and utopias,

I, for unknown reasons,
Surrounded by the books
Of prophets and theologians,
Of philosophers, poets,
Searched for an answer,
Scowling, grimacing,
Waking up at night, muttering at dawn.

What oppressed me so much
Was a bit shameful.
Talking of it aloud
Would show neither tact nor prudence.
It might even seem an outrage
Against the health of mankind.

Alas, my memory
Does not want to leave me
And in it, live beings
Each with its own pain,
Each with its own dying,
Its own trepidation.

Why then innocence
On paradisal beaches,
An impeccable sky
Over the church of hygiene?
Is it because that
Was long ago?

To a saintly man
--So goes an Arab tale--
God said somewhat maliciously:
"Had I revealed to people
How great a sinner you are,
They could not praise you."

"And I," answered the pious one,
"Had I unveiled to them
How merciful you are,
They would not care for you."

To whom should I turn
With that affair so dark
Of pain and also guilt
In the structure of the world,
If either here below
Or over there on high
No power can abolish
The cause and the effect?

Don't think, don't remember
The death on the cross,
Though everyday He dies,
The only one, all-loving,
Who without any need
Consented and allowed
To exist all that is,
Including nails of torture.

Totally enigmatic.
Impossibly intricate.
Better to stop speech here.
This language is not for people.
Blessed be jubilation.
Vintages and harvests.
Even if not everyone
Is granted serenity.

Berkeley

Cocktail of the Day:
Skip & Go Naked
Chill and Stain in 7 oz. Rocks Glass
Ingredients:
1 oz. Gin
Splash of Cranberry
Splash of Orange Juice
Dash of Grenadine
Splash of Beer

Word of the Day:
Haberwaaa:
Haberwaaa can be an expression of: a) Extreme joy (NOTE: several "haber"s can come before the "waaa" giving the expression more emphasis.) b) Dislike, disdain, disgust
Example joy: "We are going to Disney World! Habe- haberwaaa!"
Example dislike: "Look at that obese tub of lard! Haberwaaa!"

Phrase of the Day:
Break her off somethin' proper: Verb; To sexually satisfy.

Today’s Bill:
His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
William Shakespeare
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 – 1616)

Quote of the Day:
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish author, essayist, & historian (1795 - 1881)

Editors Note:
Due to the use of flex-time and the large amounts of travel, sports, cooking and spending time with eccentric family members this site will be up-dated infrequently at best for the next few days, that and I am working on my novel. I wish you and yours all the joy and happiness that you deserve this holiday session, Cheers!

Champagne wishes and Caviar Dreams, I remain:

JQP