SHOW: bottles
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- Subject: SHOW: bottles
- From: "* M* C* o* B* S* <s*@aristotle.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 10:19:42 -0600 (MDT)
Rusty writes:
>Luckily, I have
>friends with extra wine bottles, and we have a few green bottles here...so
>I'll have
>plenty for the show.
>
You folks have to bring your own bottles? We have a big set that's reused
every year.
At the SLI convention in Lafayette two weeks ago, the local group provided
cemetery bottles, which tapered so the base was narrower than the upper
part of the bottle. Each bottle bore a little cross, which seemed a bit of
a bad omen to me. They had plenty of these bottles, but whether or not the
quantity was a blessing, I don't know.
I helped fill them with water - an epistemologically unsettling experience.
One famous authority and then another would pass by, see what we were
doing, and chastise us for 1) overfilling or 2) underfilling.
Marie Caillet said, "The more water you put in that bottle, the more water
will go all over the table when it tumps over."
Darmon Haymon said, "You need enough water in there to provide a steady
base so it doesn't tump over."
Other experts provided similarly helpful commentary on the proper strategy
for avoiding bottle-tumping. Possibly these folks did not all use the exact
word "tump," but we knew tump was what they meant. In the end we filled
each and every bottle to a different level.
celia
storey@aristotle.net
Little Rock, Arkansas, USDA Zone 7b
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257 feet above sea level,
average rainfall about 50 inches (more than 60" in '97)
average relative humidity (at 6 a.m.) 84%.
moderate winters, hot summers ... but lots of seesaw action in all seasons
