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CDC Alert

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has issued a medical alert about
a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted
orally, by hand, and even electronically.

This virus is called Weary Overload Recreational Killer (WORK). If you
receive WORK from your boss, any of your colleagues or anyone else via
any means whatsoever - DO NOT TOUCH IT.

This virus will wipe out your private life completely. If you should
come into contact with WORK you should immediately leave the premises.

Take two good friends to the nearest grocery store and purchase one or
both of the antidotes - Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract (WINE) and
Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter (BEER).

Take the antidote repeatedly until WORK  has been completely eliminated
from your  system.

You should immediately forward this medical alert to your friends. If
you do not have friends, you have already been infected and WORK is
controlling your life.

Good wine needs no bush.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
As You Like It, Epilogue.

“A night without sex is like a meal without wine.

A meal without sex is like a night without wine.

A Meal without wine is like a night without sex.

Sex without wine can still be pretty good.”

                                             Anonymous

Charles Dickens on Syrah 

It was the best of wines. It was the worst of wines.  It has a hint of petulance.  It has a hint of splendor.  I had a bouquet deceptively grassy.  It had a bouquet sharply rich in character.  It had a texture soft and flabby.  It had a texture tight and compressed.  It had an expressive sultry nuance.  It had a hedonistic oily nuance.  Drinking it was a far, far better thing that I have ever done before.

Malcolm Kushner, Vintage Humor for Wine Lovers, 2003

A Thirsty Drag Queen A disheveled drag queen goes into a wine bar and plops herself down on a barstool. The hunky shirtless bartender smiles and winks at her and says, “What’ll it be, Honey?” The drag queen says. “Give me ten glasses of the house white.”  The bartender fills her request and watches as she guzzles one down, then the next, then the next, and so on until all ten are gone. Staring in amazement, the bartender asks why she’s doing all this drinking.  “You’d drink them this fast too if you had what I have.”  The bartender compassionately asks, “What do you have?” The drag queen replies, “I have a dollar.”

Bessie Braddock, a well-known socialist in England, attended a dinner party at which she was seated next to Winston Churchill who had had quite a bit to drink. She said to him, “Winston, you are drunk!”He replied, “Madame, I may be drunk, but you are ugly, and tomorrow I will be sober.”

“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”

— Attributed to Benjamin Franklin

“Wine to me is passion. It’s family and friends. It’s warmth of heart and generosity of spirit. Wine is art. It’s culture. It’s the essence of civilization and the art of living.”

— Robert Mondavi

“Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or fourteenth.”

— George Burns