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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How To Saber A Champagne Bottle]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</guid><description><![CDATA[Having done this a number of times I can vouch for the fact that it usually works well. I built up my confidence for this showy trick at many a party, and once performed it on New Year's Eve, in front of a staring crowd, on a balcony impressively lit from a pool just below. Contrary to the article a VERY HEAVY chef's knife, preferably a meat cleaver is pretty much required if you don't have a heavy sword handy. On this occasion, only a very flimsy meat cleaver was made available, and its lack of mass failed to sever the bottle's neck at first try.<br>Unbeknownst to me though, the bottle probably cracked from the shock, so that on the second try it shattered into a thousand pieces, which sparkled their way into the pool below, soon followed by quite a few drops of deep red - blood, not wine, yes mine.<br>I have not performed the trick since in either its 'basic' or 'bloody' versions. Sabre-rattlers beware.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[A B L]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How To Saber A Champagne Bottle]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</guid><description><![CDATA[I have seen this done, unfortunately losing a good deal of champagne in the process, because the person doing it utterly shattered two bottles, and getting glass shards all over our deck. Thankfully, no one was out there at the time, and he did accomplish it the third time. When he did it, I have to say, it was VERY COOL! A sure fire way to impress those of us with two X chromosomes, or maybe an X and a Y, if one happens to be of a certain persuasion, not that I'm implying anything. Stop persecuting me! HELP! HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED! NOW WE SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!<br><br>Sorry about that. I let my inner geek out of the cage for a moment there. BTW: This blog rocks. It's like a daily updated ROBB Report! Now if only I could afford even a single thing mentioned in either one....<br><br><br>Lump Lump Lump!<br>Captain Lumpy Dog]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aron]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How To Saber A Champagne Bottle]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</guid><description><![CDATA[What prevents glass shards from making their way into whatever is sabered?  Regardless of whether performed correctly or not it seems that there is a good chance that shards of glass will make their way into the bottle...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Finished.Law.School]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on How To Saber A Champagne Bottle]]></title><link>http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.luxist.com/2005/12/07/how-to-saber-a-champagne-bottle/</guid><description><![CDATA[#3 not really. When it works all you get as by-product are (1) the bottle and (2) the cork inside of a short glass 'ring'. The internal hemorrhage must be from something else. :-)<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[A B L]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 18th 2005 6:02PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>