No corkscrew? Here's how you can open a bottle of wine with your shoe.
posted by CunningLinguist on Jul 12, 2010 - 81 comments

Elephant Polo. Alf Leif Erickson is the Captain of the American Screw Tuskers Elephant Polo team . Alf is a retired attorney and former law professor from Florida. This alone doesn't make much of a post, but, you guessed it, there more, sometimes NSFW, inside..... [more inside]
posted by HuronBob on Apr 10, 2008 - 19 comments

The dramatic way to open champagne. Have you used or seen someone use a champagne saber? Amazing that the bottle neck doesn't shatter around the edges. I tried looking on Google for some lore and description but found nothing.
posted by mmarcos on Oct 30, 2001 - 18 comments