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Friday, December 24, 2004

Opening The Wine Bottle

A pre-Christmas "humour" (if not, a lame one)..

What happens if the R&D dept receives a hamper and there were no bosses around?
Answer: Open it la.

What happens if the hamper contains a bottle of wine and there's 2 and 1/2 more hours to go till the Christmas weekend?
Answer: Drink it la.

What happens if there is no bloody corkscrew around, not within the dept room, the pantry, not any other depts in other buildings?
Answer: Unscrew it the typical engineer way la.

How?
Answer: Get 2 long screws, 1 screwdriver (or testpen), 1 pair of pliers, 2-3 pairs of hands, and the rest as cheerleaders. Drill the screws deep into the cork. 1 pair of hands to use the pliers to pull the screws out (hence, pulling the cork out). The other 1-2 pairs of hands to hold the bottle. Pull as hard as you can get, and *wah lah*, the cork is out.

Cork Screwed
The screwed cork

Like I said, typical R&D engineers' way to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew. Hehe..