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(CNN)   300-year-old wine cellar found in VA. Historians shocked to find a bottle of MD 20/20   (cnn.com) divider line 44
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2004-07-17 07:16:06 PM
LOL! Awesome.
 
2004-07-18 04:30:05 AM
heh heh heh Kelso
 
2004-07-18 04:34:03 AM
THEY FOUND THE WMDs! Oh, wait.
 
2004-07-18 04:37:55 AM
The biggest question;

Is there still wine in the bottles??? That would fetch a verry good price.
 
2004-07-18 04:40:40 AM
No Crosshair, the bottles they found were buried empty, from what they can tell. One was marked in such a way tht it may have been a gift from a Governor.
 
2004-07-18 04:49:34 AM
I bought 20/20 while completely trashed one night, sophomore year, doing a alcohol content to price calculation in my head.

Threw it out when I left the dorm. Not even worth salvaging for a under-21 year old. Yuck.
 
2004-07-18 04:53:32 AM
If I had a case of MD 20/20 I'd throw it in a corner as well, and I'd feel much better the next morning.
 
2004-07-18 04:54:36 AM
Ah, Bum Wines... the timeless classic.
 
2004-07-18 05:05:54 AM
There are two opened bottles of that crap in my fridge right now. Some stupid skank left them here after assuring us that they were "really good". I call bullshiat.
 
2004-07-18 05:08:15 AM
So they found the bottles that Hoagie had place there so that Laverne can send it back to Hoagie through the Chron-o-John so that he can make a battery to return to the past, now Laverne will never get them and Hoagie is stuck in the past forever unless Bernard can replace them.

/obscure
 
2004-07-18 05:09:20 AM
doh! I meant so he can return to the present.
 
2004-07-18 06:08:38 AM
Deadite

That's not obscure! I should hope every farker knows what your talking about...
 
2004-07-18 06:13:23 AM
Ya but you never know nowadays.
 
2004-07-18 06:15:44 AM
MAD DOG.

'nuff said.
 
2004-07-18 06:16:10 AM
Ah, memories of the good ol' days come rushing back.
Slaming down a pint of Maddog, and chasing it with a can of that fine American beer Blatz, or if we were feeling a bit upity some good ol' Milwaukee's Best.
Nothing, but the finest for me, and my crew.
 
2004-07-18 06:18:50 AM
An "FN" seal on one bottle is believed to signify Francis Nicholson, a governor from 1698 into the early 1700s who moved the Virginia colony's capital from Jamestown inland to Williamsburg.

The bottle may indicate the house owner had received wine as a gift from Nicholson, Kelso said.


The article doesn't mention the analysis given by that famous historian, Dr. Brock Way, who said:

"Clearly, this bottle is of the Fnord variety, thus the "FN" indication on it. Given its placement, I would say that the bottle was given as the result of a wager, not as a gift, as suggested by others. I think it is likely that the wager was over which of two men could gather the affection of a local girl, probably named Sarah. This Sarah probably had red hair and was fond of dogs. Furthermore, if Sarah were alive today, right now she would probably be taking a crap."

FARKing archaeologists - "Hey, here is some clue, let's speculate wildly about what it means without even any hint that what we say is true; after all, it COULD be true, and that is what is important".

What's really neat about this is finding so many of them intact -- and still in their original context," Straube said

Really? I wasn't aware that early Virginians were in the habit of taking their bottles and burying them. I thought their original context would have been on a table, or maybe in a cupboard. Well, that's why they are the pros, and I am sitting at home reading FARK.
 
2004-07-18 06:19:40 AM
clevershark

the frankness of that site really makes me laugh. navigates well, too.

thank you, interweb.
 
2004-07-18 08:13:46 AM
That wine is probably still fresher than that on the shelf at my local grocery store.
 
2004-07-18 08:27:45 AM
Street Trash.
 
2004-07-18 08:36:56 AM
Excellent.
 
2004-07-18 09:22:51 AM
Hey, last Tuesday was an excellent vintage for the MD2020
 
2004-07-18 09:33:22 AM
Their assumptions exploded!

/hm
 
2004-07-18 10:10:06 AM
Had a woman on my family tree and her name was mad dog, from wales circa 1500s i think. maybe i got some money coming to me:P or a teasing that will make me cry.
 
2004-07-18 10:14:22 AM
Good thing their bottles weren't burried out of context.

/lest the grammer Nazis burn them as witches
 
2004-07-18 10:46:13 AM
"What's the word? / Thunderbird / How's it sold? / Good and cold / What's the jive? / Bird's alive / What's the price? / Thirty twice."

Thanks clevershark for the good bum-wine link.
 
2004-07-18 10:53:58 AM
2004-07-18 08:13:46 AM
StrikitRich


That wine is probably still fresher than that on the shelf at my local grocery store.
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um... isn't the point of wine that it gets better with age? I mean... fresh wine is also known as grape juice, and is often sold to kids under the brand name "Welch's"
 
2004-07-18 11:29:29 AM
I had no idea that the "MD" in MD 20/20 didn't actually stand for "Mad Dog." You learn something new every day.

/Just had some Lemon-Ice last night
 
2004-07-18 11:32:58 AM
Day of the Tentacle! I love that game.
 
2004-07-18 11:33:34 AM
Just one more after this! I remember now, I remember now, why they called it Thunderbird.
 
2004-07-18 11:33:38 AM
my favorite wine is a cold bottle of Listerine.
 
2004-07-18 01:15:08 PM
fark last tuesday, monday night was the prime time for 20/20
 
2004-07-18 01:37:28 PM
LoL. MD 202/20.

Ah..the days of being 15, drunk on this garbage, and making love to girls in their parents bedroom.
 
2004-07-18 02:11:03 PM
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2004-07-18 02:11:44 PM
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2004-07-18 02:12:40 PM
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2004-07-18 02:14:00 PM
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2004-07-18 02:23:57 PM
Apparently, deniro15 fails at teh intarweb.
 
2004-07-18 02:29:29 PM
bold dumbass.

Ripple and Champagne. I call it Champipple.
 
2004-07-18 05:15:25 PM
So that is what Henry Earl has been doing to all those wine bottles!
 
2004-07-18 08:42:40 PM
(obligatory)

Submitted this on Friday with a funnier headline.

/shrugs
 
2004-07-19 12:41:56 AM
deniro15

Please use post 69 (scratchpad) for farking around with HTML, which, by the way, uses <s and >s.
 
2004-07-19 06:34:24 AM
fromthewilderness.com

dicuss.

but really, has anyone been here?
 
2004-07-19 02:56:21 PM
Our best find: in a house we were remodeling, we found
a champagne bottle with a beercap on it, age undetermined,
probably at least thirty years from bottling- we originally
thought it was beer. turned out to be an ancient zinfandel
or something similar, very rich blackberry flavors, truly
a closet classic. and one that'll never be recreated again,
because there was no label or writing on the bottle.

I also have a bottle of homemade peach brandy, circa
1929- it's gotten a little dark, but boy does that stuff
taste nice and smooth.
 
2004-07-19 06:07:24 PM
Old Red Wine!

/Who?
 
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