Chop, don't pop!

December 30, 2006 1:43 PM

This New Year's Eve, why not open your champagne with a sword? You can even buy a special sabre for this purpose. Every year we are reminded of the hidden dangers hiding in that bottle of bubbly - is adding a sharp object to the process really the best idea?
posted by SassHat (13 comments total)

Thank goodness celebrities like Paris Hilton and Sofia Coppola selflessly promote canned champagne as a injury-free alternative to highly dangerous traditional corked bottles.
posted by SassHat at 1:43 PM on December 30, 2006

This seems popular.
posted by First Post at 1:45 PM on December 30, 2006

Um.
posted by haveanicesummer at 1:46 PM on December 30, 2006

D'oh!
posted by SassHat at 1:46 PM on December 30, 2006

I like salted nuts. Nuts salted by monkeys.
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 1:48 PM on December 30, 2006

Ouch
posted by mattoxic at 1:49 PM on December 30, 2006

Go ahead. Flog away while you still can. My flameout will be tepid at best.
posted by SassHat at 1:52 PM on December 30, 2006

Measure twice, cut once.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 1:52 PM on December 30, 2006

Seen Georges Perrier (of Le Bec Fin, Phila, PA fame) do this. Quite a show. I think I'll carefully open my blanc-de-blanc without a sword tomorrow night.
posted by fixedgear at 1:56 PM on December 30, 2006

there goes your fifteen minutes of fame.
posted by clyde at 1:57 PM on December 30, 2006

But, jeez, yeah, what is it, two posts below?
posted by fixedgear at 2:00 PM on December 30, 2006

No way Clyde! I'm gonna live forever!
posted by SassHat at 2:00 PM on December 30, 2006

Some get a kick from cocaine
I'm sure that if
I took even one sniff
That would bore me terrifically, too
Yet, this has been double-posted by you
posted by hal9k at 2:02 PM on December 30, 2006