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Pulp Fiction Wine Labels: Bought to you by Some Young Punks

by on 22. Jun, 2010 in Wine Label Oddities

It’s 3am. The phone rings. It’s the D.A’s office. A gruff voice barks “Get down to the parking lot at 59th street, Marlowe needs you”. You roll out of bed, stumble into your car and head downtown. Rain is falling. You pull up alongside the flashing blues. A wine bottle lies empty on a road, [...]

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Caption This Photo: I’m only drinking with you because…

by on 18. Jun, 2010 in Wine Label Oddities

It’s time to wheel out the Caption Competition again and, in the spirit of the World Cup, this one is a dead sitter just waiting to be stroked into the back of the net. There is also a prize  this week – provided by the good people at MissionPR who, despite my non-attendance at a [...]

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What’s that Roy? Say what you see?

by on 21. May, 2010 in Wine Label Oddities

When I was a young boy I used to be addicted to the gameshow “Catchphrase’ presented by chirpy Irishman Roy Walker. One of the rounds involved a yellow cartoon character called Mr Chips. Mr Chips would show images of objects and you’d have to guess the word that the images made up. So a picture [...]

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Ever Been Puzzled by Wine Labels?

by on 22. Jan, 2010 in Wine Label Oddities

I imagine the thought process went something like this: Wino 1: ‘I was in the White Burgundy section of Oddbins yesterday and I really found the wine labels puzzling” Wino 2: ‘Yes they can be difficult to decipher. By the way, I was doing this word puzzle on the train this morning and couldn’t find the [...]

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