This is probably really simple and obvious, except I’m not a wine person…
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They only buy one bottle of wine at a time? And I still don’t see the joke.
Right, the oddity [to/for?] me was the single bottle. A wine rack keeps the bottle cork under the wine’s top surface so that the cork doesn’t dry out.
A wine rack usually has several, if not many, bottles of wine (worthy of being kept on their sides). Obviously, they only have one bottle in the house at a time.
Andréa has it.
Wine racks with multiple spaces are for snooty people that get a variety fancy wines, keep them for years and years, and finally take out just the right one on a special occasion. Arlo and Janis are more common folk – they buy a bottle, they drink it, and then they get another one.
Not ROTFLMAO, but it worked OK for me.
But over the summer, we saw Janis freak out because there were so many wine bottles in the recycling and she thought the neighbors would get the wrong idea. Are they buying a new bottle every couple of days? That’s gonna stand out more than buying 3 or 4 bottles every week or so.
DemetriosX — when you open a bottle of wine, you really should finish it that day. There are various devices and things that are supposed to let you re-seal a bottle once it’s opened, but none of them are great. If you’re going to just have a glass of wine here or there and not drink enough on any one day to finish a bottle, that’s where Bota Box and the other actually-decent-to-high-quality boxed wines come in.
Otherwise, you buy it when you need it. Buying a few bottles at a time isn’t that great an idea, either — either it’s your absolutely favorite wine, so you may as well stock up, or you don’t necessarily know what you’ll be in the mood for that day — if you’re not going to keep a lot of wine on hand, buying just one bottle at a time makes sense.
I think, but don’t quite remember, that the “lots of wine bottles” was more about not sorting the recycling for a long time, rather than drinking a lot all at once.
Like Winter Wallaby, I felt like this was cute, if not a classic knee-slapper for the ages.
I don’t normally have loads of wine on hand but I happen to have 39 bottles in the house at the mo… a supermarket was doing 25% of six or more last week, so I got 12 as I might as well now as wait and have to get it full price for the Xmas gathering of the clans, where we get through a lot. And my brother, on the same kind of advance low-price and prep-for-the-season thinking, sent along a box of 12 from the Wine Society last week as they were doing some sort of stock clearout deal, also presumably sorting out their warehouses for Xmas. (Maybe the Wine Society stuff is all rubbish dregs, but the supermarket deal was on every kind of wine normally in the shop).
That brother arrived in Georgia (the Caucasus one, with Tbilisi as the capital city) on holiday today (by marshrutka minibus from Yerevan in Armenia)(Quite intrepid, considering he is 70). Moseying around the city for some wine to quaff in his hotel room of an evening while updating his travel reports and editing his pics, he found “this shop, in the deserted back streets, with two vats in the window, and they’ll fill a litre bottle for you if you bring your own. Or sell you an old litre coke bottle-full. Now, this could be a rip-off, or a way for the locals to get reasonable wine without the mark-up of tourist-shop prices and business rates. I go for the latter theory – and get a litre of soft, dry red for 9GEL (about £3)[$3.75 at the moment]. And it’s very palatable, thank you.” So he is sorted.
Some people drink wine when they are at home alone in the bathtub. Some people drink wine when they host a large gathering of people in their homes. If you happen to be both, you’d usually have only a bottle or two around, except for right before you have the big gathering. If you had nosy neighbors, you might get jumpy if you were slacking off on sorting your recyclables in such a way that the big collection of wine bottles generated by your party didn’t hit the recycle bin until later, at a time when your nosy neighbors KNOW you didn’t have any big gatherings.
I think this is a realistic depiction, and I think it fits A&J.(the first part is easy… we’ve “seen” Janis with a wineglass in the bathtub. The second is not… A&J are rarely shown with other characters. But there have been strips showing A&J socializing, and Arlo has been shown cooking with pots suitable for large gatherings.)
If I wanted a single-bottle wine rack I wouldn’t make one like that; I’d buy the deer lying on its back holding the bottle like it’s drinking it.
I thought it had to do with expense. Aren’t people with wine racks/cellars commonly associated with wealth? I’ve always thought that, anyway. Whether that’s true or not is another matter.
A&J are common folk, as has been mentioned, so they don’t have enough money to stock up on wine good enough to sit on a wine rack. Maybe one every now and again, hence the single-bottled contraption Arlo’s made.
We have a wine rack that is definitely not associated with wealth: it was sold (in pieces) by IKEA, and was manufactured in two or three eastern European countries. Although it can hold 60 or 70 bottles, most of them are not wine.
I just meant that wine racks generally seem to be associated with those occupying a higher social order than, say, those with a beer fridge. That’s where my line of thinking is coming from.
The joke is that they’re lushes and can’t keep wine in the house. At best, they might keep one bottle overnight as the demolish the rest of the case. I can’t blame Janis. I’d drink if I had a spouse like Arlo.
“I’d drink if I had a spouse like Arlo.”
Might I ask why?
It’s a “we guzzle” joke.
They don’t have a wine storage problem, because they immediately drink up everything in the house.
At most, there’s the bottle they’re currently drinking, and the next bottle.
When we were younger we rarely drank wine and generally not any alcoholic drinks – a very occasional beer for Robert. (Now almost never is alcohol in the house or drunk by him and never by me.) Somehow we did build up a collection of about 10 wine bottles (one of them, a very inexpensive one for the teddy bear on label). We had no place to store them and ended up buying several plastic crates – of the type and size to store magazines in – and we stacked them one on each other and ran chains through them to hold in place and used it to store the wine bottles.
When we had the bed bugs we had to get anything that could burn, burst into flames, melt or explode and the wine was tossed out – I kept the empty teddy bear bottle.
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They only buy one bottle of wine at a time? And I still don’t see the joke.
Right, the oddity [to/for?] me was the single bottle. A wine rack keeps the bottle cork under the wine’s top surface so that the cork doesn’t dry out.
A wine rack usually has several, if not many, bottles of wine (worthy of being kept on their sides). Obviously, they only have one bottle in the house at a time.
Andréa has it.
Wine racks with multiple spaces are for snooty people that get a variety fancy wines, keep them for years and years, and finally take out just the right one on a special occasion. Arlo and Janis are more common folk – they buy a bottle, they drink it, and then they get another one.
Not ROTFLMAO, but it worked OK for me.
But over the summer, we saw Janis freak out because there were so many wine bottles in the recycling and she thought the neighbors would get the wrong idea. Are they buying a new bottle every couple of days? That’s gonna stand out more than buying 3 or 4 bottles every week or so.
DemetriosX — when you open a bottle of wine, you really should finish it that day. There are various devices and things that are supposed to let you re-seal a bottle once it’s opened, but none of them are great. If you’re going to just have a glass of wine here or there and not drink enough on any one day to finish a bottle, that’s where Bota Box and the other actually-decent-to-high-quality boxed wines come in.
Otherwise, you buy it when you need it. Buying a few bottles at a time isn’t that great an idea, either — either it’s your absolutely favorite wine, so you may as well stock up, or you don’t necessarily know what you’ll be in the mood for that day — if you’re not going to keep a lot of wine on hand, buying just one bottle at a time makes sense.
I think, but don’t quite remember, that the “lots of wine bottles” was more about not sorting the recycling for a long time, rather than drinking a lot all at once.
Like Winter Wallaby, I felt like this was cute, if not a classic knee-slapper for the ages.
I don’t normally have loads of wine on hand but I happen to have 39 bottles in the house at the mo… a supermarket was doing 25% of six or more last week, so I got 12 as I might as well now as wait and have to get it full price for the Xmas gathering of the clans, where we get through a lot. And my brother, on the same kind of advance low-price and prep-for-the-season thinking, sent along a box of 12 from the Wine Society last week as they were doing some sort of stock clearout deal, also presumably sorting out their warehouses for Xmas. (Maybe the Wine Society stuff is all rubbish dregs, but the supermarket deal was on every kind of wine normally in the shop).
That brother arrived in Georgia (the Caucasus one, with Tbilisi as the capital city) on holiday today (by marshrutka minibus from Yerevan in Armenia)(Quite intrepid, considering he is 70). Moseying around the city for some wine to quaff in his hotel room of an evening while updating his travel reports and editing his pics, he found “this shop, in the deserted back streets, with two vats in the window, and they’ll fill a litre bottle for you if you bring your own. Or sell you an old litre coke bottle-full. Now, this could be a rip-off, or a way for the locals to get reasonable wine without the mark-up of tourist-shop prices and business rates. I go for the latter theory – and get a litre of soft, dry red for 9GEL (about £3)[$3.75 at the moment]. And it’s very palatable, thank you.” So he is sorted.
Some people drink wine when they are at home alone in the bathtub. Some people drink wine when they host a large gathering of people in their homes. If you happen to be both, you’d usually have only a bottle or two around, except for right before you have the big gathering. If you had nosy neighbors, you might get jumpy if you were slacking off on sorting your recyclables in such a way that the big collection of wine bottles generated by your party didn’t hit the recycle bin until later, at a time when your nosy neighbors KNOW you didn’t have any big gatherings.
I think this is a realistic depiction, and I think it fits A&J.(the first part is easy… we’ve “seen” Janis with a wineglass in the bathtub. The second is not… A&J are rarely shown with other characters. But there have been strips showing A&J socializing, and Arlo has been shown cooking with pots suitable for large gatherings.)
If I wanted a single-bottle wine rack I wouldn’t make one like that; I’d buy the deer lying on its back holding the bottle like it’s drinking it.
I thought it had to do with expense. Aren’t people with wine racks/cellars commonly associated with wealth? I’ve always thought that, anyway. Whether that’s true or not is another matter.
A&J are common folk, as has been mentioned, so they don’t have enough money to stock up on wine good enough to sit on a wine rack. Maybe one every now and again, hence the single-bottled contraption Arlo’s made.
We have a wine rack that is definitely not associated with wealth: it was sold (in pieces) by IKEA, and was manufactured in two or three eastern European countries. Although it can hold 60 or 70 bottles, most of them are not wine.
I just meant that wine racks generally seem to be associated with those occupying a higher social order than, say, those with a beer fridge. That’s where my line of thinking is coming from.
The joke is that they’re lushes and can’t keep wine in the house. At best, they might keep one bottle overnight as the demolish the rest of the case. I can’t blame Janis. I’d drink if I had a spouse like Arlo.
“I’d drink if I had a spouse like Arlo.”
Might I ask why?
It’s a “we guzzle” joke.
They don’t have a wine storage problem, because they immediately drink up everything in the house.
At most, there’s the bottle they’re currently drinking, and the next bottle.
When we were younger we rarely drank wine and generally not any alcoholic drinks – a very occasional beer for Robert. (Now almost never is alcohol in the house or drunk by him and never by me.) Somehow we did build up a collection of about 10 wine bottles (one of them, a very inexpensive one for the teddy bear on label). We had no place to store them and ended up buying several plastic crates – of the type and size to store magazines in – and we stacked them one on each other and ran chains through them to hold in place and used it to store the wine bottles.
When we had the bed bugs we had to get anything that could burn, burst into flames, melt or explode and the wine was tossed out – I kept the empty teddy bear bottle.