ED Tautology of the Week....

[SimonM]

...The Wine Bar - which I will not name to save possible embarrassment - which had a sign up offering "Hot Mulled Wine"...

:))

[Peckhampam]

Not actually a tautology. They may be boasting that they don't let it go cold.

[????]

It could be warm

[Brendan]

That is indeed a very tautologous repetition of the same concept.

[????]

Has anyone mentioned tepid yet?

[HonaloochieB]

I'm not getting this, I take it as heated up fermented grape juice that's been thought about for a considerable period of time.

Now 'peroiod of time'...

[Brendan]

Surely that is a punctuation mark indicating the end of a sentence which is also bound by the constraints of the 4th dimension.

[HonaloochieB]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Surely that is a punctuation mark indicating the

> end of a sentence which is also bound by the

> constraints of the 4th dimension.

Of course it may well be just as you say, Brendan.

We live in a time when a former BBC political correspondent, becomes a national dancing hero. So anything's possible.

But I'd lay off the mulled wine at breakfast time, if I were you.

Seriously, a couple of Perronis are less of a shock to the system.

[SimonM]

You could be right at that....so you'd send your glass back complaining about all the spices defiling it??

[HonaloochieB]

SimonM Wrote:

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> You could be right at that....so you'd send your

> glass back complaining about all the spices

> defiling it??

Simon, I stand in awe.

You've devised the best way to get pissed up, for next to bugger all.

The glass is sent back, empty of whatever hooch you had in it, in the first place.

In a strident tone of voice, one informs the barkeep/waiter about the defiling of the wine and demands a refill.

The subsequent refills will be deemed 'not up to snuff', because of the imbalance of the herbs and spices, and oisy-doisy-doh you get as pissed as a bastard for the price of a single glass of mulled wine.

'Mullered For Nothing' as Dire Straits might have sung at their staff Xmas party.

It's just the sort of initiative we need in these "credit crunch" days.

[macroban]

Any advice on how to get free french fries?

[HonaloochieB]

macroban Wrote:

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> Any advice on how to get free french fries?

Mullered for nothing and your chips for free?

I'm not sure even Mark Knopfler would run to that Mac.

[Moos]

Perhaps MacRoban meant Freedom Fries

[AcedOut]

Let's hope they're not cooked in microwave ovens!

[Smiler]

The same place of the hot mulled wine is advertising that it sells "real" wine.

If only I had drunk less real wine and more pretend wine this year, I could fit into that little black dress.....