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When your corkscrew is broken ,,,,,,,
forgemonkey
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,,,,,,,,, and a lady friend brings over a bottle of wine,,,,,,,,, now what ??
It had one of those &#@(*% synthetic corks, and it was a full blown emergency. Finally resorted to the tool box and adaption of anything handy. 😂🙄
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I thought they had a blue pill for that.
No wait, that is for something else.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Sounds like he needed something to wash the pill down with.....
I woulda have used that spare red cork screw to the left of the bottle 😁😎
First problem is that you do not have a "back up cork screw".
I'm guessing you tried using the broken one by giving it a pull instead of using the levers.
Driving the cork into the bottle, well, it was an emergency.
What, you don't have a Swiss Army Knife?
Perhaps if you inserted a drywall screw into the cork and then pulled on it with the pliers.
You'll never have to worry about it again because now she knows to bring either a screw top bottle or a box of wine. In other words, you just became a cheap date! 😀 Bob
use a screwdriver and just push it on into the bottle...
I have a scar on the tip of my trigger finger from this very same situation! Using a jackknife without a locking blade to pull a cork was a very bad idea. I'm just thankful it was RED wine. 😁
Tried that ,,,,,,, just made a hole in the cork, which healed itself ,,,,,,, $#@* synthetic. !!!
and a lady friend brings over a bottle of wine,,,,,,,,, now what ??
Sorry Darling... we will have to drink bourbon ...
I watch that old British show "The Avengers" once in a while. At the beginning, Emma Peel shoots the top off a nice bottle of bubbly with her pistol, and Steed fills the glasses! 😁
The root problem was corkscrew -- singular. We don't drink a lot of wine in our house, but I can think of at least six corkscrews around here, counting a couple of fake Swiss knives. And there may be others I can't recall just now.
One would think that a forgemonkey might be able to cobble up a handsomely rustic corkscrew, perhaps with an antler handle, wouldn't one?
crack the top off and pour it through your hanky!
Earnest and Julio Gallo would be proud of you.
Just grab a drill bit and enjoy your wine in no time flat.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Red wine and Reeses. The breakfast of champions.
A drill and a straw. I suppose a nail might do in a pinch. I remember seeing somewhere if you slap the bottom of the bottle this action will walk the cork out. It will make a snow globe of the sediment in the bottle.
I forget what those "reverse" screw small bits are that remove broken bolts/screws but I've used them before.
There is a corkscrew in your picture. Screw it in and pull. You don’t need the wing thingies or the broken rim at all.
what the hell is wrong with you?🙂
Brad Steele
Forget about the wine! How'd things go with your lady friend? 😁
Not very observant, eh ,,,,,,,, the tongue and groove pliers were used to pull the in place corkscrew, which pulled out of
the synthetic cork. 😉
If’n I told ya ,,,,,,, my tenure here would be short !! 🤣
...Your first mistake was buying a wine that needed a corkscrew...you could have bought a half gallon of MadDog 20/20 with a screw cap, that had been aged for 2, maybe 3 days, for under $10...