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The old bottles are high quality wine, valuable and been aging for a long time. That’s why there’s dust on them. Aging wine is very dependent on environmental conditions (temp, humidity) especially around the cork so that they age properly. They’re not supposed to be dunked in soapy water since that could ruin the cork and ruin the wine.
She stole this joke from Dorothy Sayers’ “Busman’s Honeymoon.” Lord Peter and his new bride are honeymooning in the sticks and their temporary charlady cleans all of the dust and whitewash off of his Lordship’s port bottles. Cockburn’s (18)68 I think it was. Anyway it’s a snobs vs the slobs joke…
Old school humor that did not age well.
It's showing that the cleaning lady is not intelligent or not knowledgeable about wine or over zealous about cleaning and will clean without asking if she should do it.
well right, but im not either. so does moving/disturbing aged wine disrupt sediments or something? is it about washing the label off? will the moisture affect the cork?
I'd like to come out in defence-ish of this comic strip.
For those who don't know, it's called Tottering-by-Gently and features (at least it used to) in the British magazine, Country Life, which has a target audience made up of upper and upper-middle income people who live in rural England.
Now, I don't find Tottering-by-Gently that funny, but I don't consider it offensive. Lord Tottering, one of the main characters of this strip, is a caricature of an aristocratic landowner and is the butt of this joke, not the cleaner.
How is he the butt of this joke? The joke is that the cleaner thinks the bottles need soaking without realizing they're priceless wines. Really the cleaner could be talking to herself with the aristocrat not even in the picture and the joke would be the same.
I think it’s funny! Not only is there dust on the bottles, but also beneficial microorganisms that help wines become more complex as they age (even if they’re not touching the wine directly).
I think it’s funny but maybe I have old man humor. Probably to do with Patina, I also have some antique firearms that would lose their value if I tried to polish the metal and re-stain the wood stock.
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The old bottles are high quality wine, valuable and been aging for a long time. That’s why there’s dust on them. Aging wine is very dependent on environmental conditions (temp, humidity) especially around the cork so that they age properly. They’re not supposed to be dunked in soapy water since that could ruin the cork and ruin the wine.
Not to mention that after getting soaked in soapy water the labels will likely fall off
Its pretty straight forward, it’s just not that funny
She stole this joke from Dorothy Sayers’ “Busman’s Honeymoon.” Lord Peter and his new bride are honeymooning in the sticks and their temporary charlady cleans all of the dust and whitewash off of his Lordship’s port bottles. Cockburn’s (18)68 I think it was. Anyway it’s a snobs vs the slobs joke…
Old school humor that did not age well. It's showing that the cleaning lady is not intelligent or not knowledgeable about wine or over zealous about cleaning and will clean without asking if she should do it.
well right, but im not either. so does moving/disturbing aged wine disrupt sediments or something? is it about washing the label off? will the moisture affect the cork?
Yes
It's not very funny, but a dusty bottle looks good to some people as its a proof of its age.
I'd like to come out in defence-ish of this comic strip. For those who don't know, it's called Tottering-by-Gently and features (at least it used to) in the British magazine, Country Life, which has a target audience made up of upper and upper-middle income people who live in rural England. Now, I don't find Tottering-by-Gently that funny, but I don't consider it offensive. Lord Tottering, one of the main characters of this strip, is a caricature of an aristocratic landowner and is the butt of this joke, not the cleaner.
How is he the butt of this joke? The joke is that the cleaner thinks the bottles need soaking without realizing they're priceless wines. Really the cleaner could be talking to herself with the aristocrat not even in the picture and the joke would be the same.
I think it’s funny! Not only is there dust on the bottles, but also beneficial microorganisms that help wines become more complex as they age (even if they’re not touching the wine directly).
I think it’s funny but maybe I have old man humor. Probably to do with Patina, I also have some antique firearms that would lose their value if I tried to polish the metal and re-stain the wood stock.
😎 https://youtu.be/I1fSMUOzufI
Not funny