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To: Ilaine who wrote (20429)	4/4/1999 7:19:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

Bad wine -- I always served expensive wine and cheap wine to my guests when once I used to entertain. I soaked the labels off of the wine, carefully segregating them, and relabeled the expensive wine with the cheap labels, and the cheap wine with the expensive labels, and let everyone taste, then choose what tipple they would take. Some of the cognoscenti choose the cheap labeled bottles, and praised me for my discernment and sagacity and lack of prejudice in finding excellent bargains. I stressed the excellence was in those particular bottles, and could not be generalized from. Some of the innocents also chose the cheap labeled wine because they liked it. Many of my more pretentious friends enjoyed the expensive labeled wine, and respected me for my generosity as a host and suspected great wealth or that I was being gypped. It made for many pleasant evenings. I commend the strategem to all. Well worth the trouble. Refill the bottles from a jug (or bag in a box) and make your guests more comfortable. A few will figure out what you are up to, will admire and keep quiet an imitate you. Most will respect your oenological genius. Enjoy! When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.