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My husband just came home with a brown paper bag; I could see the neck of some sort of libation sticking out of it. He knows that I only get in the mood to drink a few swallows of beer or wine about every three years or so, but nonetheless he asked me if I wanted some. Being sure it was beer, I said, "Let me sniff it". He replied that it was Reisling (and it's not bad, either), and that I must have a more powerful sniff than he realized, if I could remove the cork that way! So here's the "contest" (now that I've stopped laughing enough to type): if it were possible to Hoover the cork up out of a wine bottle by "sniff-power", what would that act be called?
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Um...nostraction? (nose+extraction)
or maybe...snifflift?
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Should we consult Nostradamus?
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"Who nose?" Tom said predictably.
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My nose is so good I could tell it was Riesling, not Reisling. I got quite a few hits
ror ""Reisling" but when I clicked on them, they all said "Riesling" inside.
I have to admit though, I have never had any, and don't know what it smells like.
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Reisling sounds like a double diminutive of the German Reise, journey. Maybe it means the trip to the wine cellar.
What do you call it when topic creep brings you back to the subject line in a completely different sense?
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here's a clue: it's not nosocomology.
-THE MGMT
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Dear Faldage: the topic was at least one half "nose". For an entry, how about
"exsnorkulate"? And Riesling wine is made by midget giants in the Riesengebirge.
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