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- 22:55 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: New Style
- Replies: 263
- Views: 81595
Re: New Style
For almost all sites, and especially phpbb sites, clicking on the site name goes back to the main page. Standard operating procedure. (Except ’orrible proFormell.)
- 22:40 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 676810
Re: Apostrophe crimes
jdaw1 wrote:the song to which that refers
DRT’s wiki entry forwards to mine. So other than providing the same content and being slower to load, I’m not quite sure what advantages it is purported to provide. My ignorance — no problem.DRT wrote:this
- 22:20 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: New Style
- Replies: 263
- Views: 81595
Re: New Style
Is there a reason that you’re reluctant to click on the big site name?DRT wrote:I have just noticed that the Board Index link has disappeared from the top of threads. Is this intentional? If so, what is the reasoning? Either way, I would prefer to have it back if others agree.
- 21:45 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: New Style
- Replies: 263
- Views: 81595
Re: New Style
The same colours are used in consecutive PM messages, and some of the PM controls use grey. So I’d rather not use grey backgrounds. Unless the consensus is that I should.
- 21:44 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 676810
Re: Apostrophe crimes
As non-apostrophic pedantry seems to be becoming allowable, I indite jdaw1 for the following abuse of the double negative: I can’t get no satisfaction Perhaps the song to which that refers is older than you. I think that I have fairly quoted something that has become part of the language. Also the ...
- 20:58 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Time Tunnels
- Replies: 36
- Views: 16279
Re: Psychedelia achieved
For what little it’s worth, using the current ThePortForumRed style on my Mac screen, it still works with another eleven nested quotations. A whole case though, a dozen, is one too many.
- 20:36 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: New Style
- Replies: 263
- Views: 81595
Re: New Style
Agreed. Mintish green bad, and deceased. And green henceforth to be avoided outside boxes. The background colours in the threads are there to help separate consecutive posts, and nested quotations (see very silly thread [url=http://theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1642&start=25]Time Tunn...
- 20:25 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Site Stuff
- Topic: New Style
- Replies: 263
- Views: 81595
Re: New Style
The background colours go through a version a day: I can’t get no satisfaction. Please suggest, perhaps using www.jdawiseman.com/papers/trivia/web-colours-hsl.html for inspiration.
- 01:09 Mon 01 Sep 2008
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Wednesday October 8, 2008
- Replies: 217
- Views: 90350
Re: Wednesday October 8, 2008
On the subject of the alleged 189 5 . … to see the ’90’s catching up and beating the (as it seemed to me) always over-rated ’87’s : or to pit against each other two such vintages as ’96 and ’97 from the same shippers—these were intellectual as well as merely sensuous exercises, and pleasing as both...
- 19:38 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 2001 Quinta do Crasto LBV
- Replies: 10
- Views: 6640
Re: 2001 Quinto do Crasto LBV
When they, or indeed anybody else, update their port list, please be encouraged to post in Port for sale by retailer.AHB wrote:Adnams
- 17:40 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Apostrophe crimes
- Replies: 2072
- Views: 676810
Tesco
It isn’t an apostrophe crime, but the following story slightly gladdened a pedant’s heart. Tesco is to change the wording of signs on its fast-track checkouts to avoid any linguistic dispute. The supermarket giant is to replace its current "10 items or less" notices with signs saying "...
- 13:48 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Osborne
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Re: 1994 Osborne
I didn’t get the dried fruit. Earthy tones maybe.
- 03:31 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Osborne
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Re: 1994 Osborne
Osborne 1994 : mediumly-dark red shifting to brown at the edge, with middling translucency. Colour looks a little advanced for a 1994, but it is a minor house. Nosing very strongly of — I know that smell what is it? — nearly coffee, nearly liquorice, nearly a fisherman’s friend minus most of the ...
- 03:12 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Osborne
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Re: 1994 Osborne
Sediment moistly particulate, though parts had acquired the shape of the inside of the half bottle.
- 03:12 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Osborne
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
Re: 1994 Osborne
Short cork extracted cleanly. There were two capsules, but the inner foil capsule was glued so tightly to the outer black that I didn’t separate them.
- 03:10 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1994 Osborne
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2927
1994 Osborne
In buying some sherry at Village Wine and Spirits, I spy with my little eye a wee half bottle of Osborne 1994 for a mere $20+tax. What’s a boy to do?
- 02:01 Sun 31 Aug 2008
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Wednesday October 8, 2008
- Replies: 217
- Views: 90350
Re: Wednesday October 8, 2008
Some, including me, have sent £££ to DRT. He will ensure that things are fair — though I know not the details.
- 22:04 Sat 30 Aug 2008
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Double horizontal of ’83 and ’85, Brooklyn, Sat 13 Sept ’08
- Replies: 147
- Views: 67709
Re: Double horizontal of ’83 and ’85, Brooklyn, Sat 13 Sept ’08
NN85: Zachys, Los Angeles, March 2006, lot 1208, $315 per bottle. G85: Sotheby’s, New York, 3rd Dec 2005, lot 430, $88 per bottle. I’m happy to bring the NN85, somebody can adopt the G85.
- 17:34 Sat 30 Aug 2008
- Forum: Organising Tastings and Get-togethers
- Topic: Wednesday October 8, 2008
- Replies: 217
- Views: 90350
Re: Wednesday October 8, 2008
did we or at least one of you think about putting flights together and the sequence of drinking or are you planning to place them altogether on the table? Yes. Afternoon is 1975 to 2007. Evening is 189? to 1970. Within those, we haven’t split it. People will probably tackle them in date order. Cert...
- 13:52 Sat 30 Aug 2008
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: “Port rehab†!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5574
Re: “Port rehab†!
Absolutely yes. But only under proper medical supervision. No more spontaneous help-yourself pop-and-pour type sloppiness.Glenn E. wrote:I think you guys are getting it backwards... my reading is that "Port Rehab" means "Drink More Port!"
- 00:22 Sat 30 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Tasting Notes
- Topic: 1977 Ferreira
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4450
Re: 1977 Ferreira vintage port
AHB writes the best TNs. Most perceptive palate; and the most comprehensively and elegantly described. His TNs are almost† , but not quite, as much a joy as tasting the port oneself.
† Allow a little poetic licence. Nothing compares to drinking the port oneself.
† Allow a little poetic licence. Nothing compares to drinking the port oneself.
- 00:19 Sat 30 Aug 2008
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: “Port rehab†!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5574
Re: “Port rehab†!
Corkscrews? Tongs? Coffee filters? Sabres? Wooden boxes containing a single glass of a preferred shape? Red checked shirts? Yes, those too.AHB wrote:I believe that the first step in port rehab would be to remove from the patient all collapsible funnels hidden about their person.
- 00:17 Sat 30 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: When did <insert house here> change labels
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3760
Re: When did <insert house here> change labels
I have been putting pictures of labels in tasting notes. Be encouraged to do likewise.
- 00:15 Sat 30 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Keeping track of your port
- Replies: 35
- Views: 10561
Re: Keeping track of your port
I love little surprises like that! That's why, despite tracking my port on a spreadsheet, I still carry out a stocktake once a year or so. Following two instances in which AHB, allowed in my father’s cellar without my close supervision, failed to find what should have been there, I too did a stock ...
- 19:07 Fri 29 Aug 2008
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port for sale by retailer
- Replies: 1537
- Views: 810508
Port for sale by Benchmark Wine
Omitting the apostrophe from Warre’s is offensive, but better than using a grave accent.Benchmark Wine wrote:Fonseca Port 1992 ~ 12 @ $115 RP97, WS96 In-Stock
Taylor Port 1977 ~ 12 @ $167 WS98 Pre-Arrival
Warres Port 1994 ~ 8 @ $64 RP94, WS95, MB***** In-Stock