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The Minsky Moment

#8415
June 07, 2011, 05:13:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 07, 2011, 05:01:48 PM
White Burgundy or red?  The most intense wine drinking experience I ever had was with Chassagne Montrachet.

12 red, 23 white.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Ed Anger

#8416
June 07, 2011, 05:33:20 PM
How many ice trays you got?
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MadImmortalMan

#8417
June 07, 2011, 05:39:05 PM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 07, 2011, 05:13:26 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 07, 2011, 05:01:48 PM
White Burgundy or red?  The most intense wine drinking experience I ever had was with Chassagne Montrachet.

12 red, 23 white.

Ugh. Invert that ratio. My current collection: 17(cases) red, 3(bottles) white.    :lol:
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

The Minsky Moment

#8418
June 07, 2011, 06:44:33 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on June 07, 2011, 05:33:20 PM
How many ice trays you got?

One.

To hit Polish lawyers over the head with.
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

The Minsky Moment

#8419
June 07, 2011, 06:46:39 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 07, 2011, 05:39:05 PM
Ugh. Invert that ratio. My current collection: 17(cases) red, 3(bottles) white.    :lol:

That is just the Burgundies.
Total cellar is 129 red, 68 white (including champagne and sauternes).
The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.
--Joan Robinson

Eddie Teach

#8420
June 07, 2011, 07:50:48 PM
Quote from: jamesww on June 07, 2011, 06:55:23 PM
So next weekend is gonna be fun.  :cool:

What if he drinks to numb the pain?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

HisMajestyBOB

#8421
June 07, 2011, 07:52:41 PM
Today I bought an $11 bottle of sweet red wine to drink from my RenFair goblet this or next evening. :)
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Ideologue

#8422
June 07, 2011, 08:00:30 PM
Great line from a YouPorn commenter:

Quoteits great to see a real sexual experience. but what is up with that dudes orgasm? he sounds like a 14th century poet who just got shoved.
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alfred russel

#8423
June 07, 2011, 08:04:31 PM
Minsky apparently thinks that when the economy collapses fine wines will be the new currency, and is planning accordingly.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

The Larch

#8424
June 08, 2011, 01:36:54 AM
Quote from: The Minsky Moment on June 07, 2011, 04:57:23 PM
Current inventory:

Bordeaux - 49
Burgundy -35
USA - 32
Rhone - 25
Tuscany - 16
Champage - 11
Alsace - 10
Germany - 9
Piedmont - 6
Loire - 3
Umbria, Portugal - 2 each

Not a single Spanish bottle? For shame, Minsky, for shame...

Zoupa

#8425
June 08, 2011, 01:37:59 AM
That's way too many Bordeaux, and not enough Loire.  <_<

Where are the Touraine, the Saumur-Champigny? :frog:

Syt

#8427
June 08, 2011, 08:07:45 AM
Minsky in his natural habitat.

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Eddie Teach

#8428
June 08, 2011, 08:50:08 AM
So he spent the better part of a decade drinking beer at a sports bar?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Josephus

#8429
June 08, 2011, 10:18:25 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 08, 2011, 08:50:08 AM
So he spent the better part of a decade drinking beer at a sports bar?

See, that was really a 180 degree turn around for Fraiser's character. In Cheers he hung around in a bar and drank beer and chatted about sports. In Fraser he became this wine/cognac snob who only went to snobby places.
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