I keep thinking it must be like pixie sticks.

Also, I really wish Tom would change his name to DeLay. I keep being very confused by headlines talking about "Delay on this that or the other thing" and thinking, okay, so it's slow. So what?

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A Brief History of Wine Glasses

There is no shortage of quality wine glasses. The most famous being Reidel glasses, specially shaped for each variety to put the wine onto the correct area of the tongue to taste the best. Finally, there are ISO wine tasting glasses. ISO stands for International Standards Organisation. The glasses are made to a particular size, shape and standard for a specific use. Made from fine colourless crystal, it's rounded shape and smoothness gives an ideal relationship between surface area and volume. The tapered bowl allows free circulation of wine and the funnelling of its vapours.

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Reidel glasses, specially shaped for each variety to put the wine onto the correct area of the tongue to taste the best.

This, by the way, has been debunked by everyone who's tested it except Reidel's marketing department. Reidel makes very high quality stemware, but buy it for looks, not taste.

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Does she not like Australians?

KATIE'S MOTHER: SherBET! It's sherBET! There's no r!

(Is it actually a spelling variant, then? Though I think she'd still be annoyed; "Duck Tape" drives her crazy.)

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I like the idea of these wine glasses. For once, something unbreakable that doesn't look like a child's sippy cup.

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NOUN: 1. also sher·bert (-bûrt) A frozen dessert made primarily of fruit juice, sugar, and water, and also containing milk, egg white, or gelatin. 2. Chiefly British A beverage made of sweetened diluted fruit juice. 3. also sherbert Australian An alcoholic beverage, especially beer.

ETYMOLOGY: Ottoman Turkish, sweet fruit drink, from Persian sharbat, from Arabic arba, drink, from ariba, to drink. See rb in Appendix II.

Beer?

Beer comes from "[Middle English ber, from Old English b(long e)or, from West Germanic, probably from Latin bibere, to drink.]" The old ariba "to drink" is almost certainly from the same Indo-European source as bibere, so in the long view, the two words come from the same source, but they're about as closely related as Aragorn and Arwen.

also sher·bert (-bûrt)

Wow, I can hear my mother's head exploding from here.

My mother says sherbert, whereas I despise it.

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Quick tech support question -- I'm ripping a CD that has a screwed up (folded a little) label on it, which I guess is hitting against the top of the player, and making a terrible sound. Am I hurting the insides?

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This, by the way, has been debunked by everyone who's tested it except Reidel's marketing department. Reidel makes very high quality stemware, but buy it for looks, not taste.

What I've been told, is if you drink wine from Reidel stemware and know that it's Reidel, and know that Reidel is supposed to make wine taste better, the wine tastes better. If you don't know, though, it doesn't. So it's not a real effect, but the psychological effect is pretty strong.

$55 a glass? I'll stick with the lexan backpacking wineglasses. [link]

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I was going to say Hey! Jerry Nadler's my Congressman! But I guess he isn't anymore.

And my aunt's sister-in-law is obsessed with people using the right wine glasses -- she bought my aunt and uncle glasses for several holidays because they kept trying to give her red wine in a white wine glass.

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also sher·bert

Thank goodness, because I was pretty sure my Boston accent didn't get its grubby hands on my spelling, but for a moment, I was worried.

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