In article <2009011717093916807-wyneken@gEEEEEEmailcom>,
stav <wyneken@gEEEEEEmail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-01-16 12:02:57 -0500, amahl <2cetaqe02@sneakemail.com> said:
>
> > spilled-red-wine-in-keyboard---rather-limited-until-new-one-arrives
> >
>
> Red wine in keyboard? RED WINE in keyboard?
>
> There is your problem right there. Treble music is customarily served
> with a crisp, dry white, or after dinner with a fine port or perhaps a
> dark, peaty single-malt Scotch. If you go in for singing along, then
> you'll want a hearty brown ale or a stout.
>
> Red wine -- I'm talking here about inexpensive 750ml bottles, perhaps
> with a screw top -- are chiefly appropriate with Declan Galbraith and
> the poppier ouvre of Joseph McManners.
Alas, my home was overrun with middle-aged to elderly women for the
Christmas season, so all the white was merrily slurped away. I'd
already finished the Laphroaig, sad to say. A bottle of Capote Velho
came to hand -- and some of it proceeded from the hand into the keyboard.
Screw tops actually are fashionable these days. Capote Velho, from
Portugal, comes in full liter bottles sealed with genuine Portuguese
cork. It's not subtle, but it's unbelievably drinkable for the price.
Granted, had I spilled Absolut into the keyboard, it probably would have
recovered when it dried. Capote Velho is far too tasty to permit
keyboard recovery, and Absolut is solely for those who do not care for
the taste of alcohol. Laphroaig certainly would have destroyed the
keyboard just as efficiently as Capote Velho, but its loss would have
been lamented with far larger, far saltier tears.
No matter -- I once again have a working keyboard. Just for the hell of
it, I'm putting the old one through the dishwasher -- and I'll try it
out if it appears dry by the time I pour wine or beer or spaghetti sauce
And, yes, nothing beats Guinness for singing along.
A
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