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BOTTLE STOPPERS

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Last Christmas, among the many hundreds of incredibly expensive presents my family bought me, was a set of peculiar shaped metal gismos the purpose of which totally defeated me until one of my offspring explained that they were wine bottle stoppers, the idea being that when you opened a bottle of wine and didn't finish it you pop one of these specially shaped stoppers into the top of the bottle and it forms an airtight seal, thus stopping the wine from going off.
Now since any bottle of wine that gets opened in this house tends to last about a half hour on average these gismos are about as useful as an extra armpit but I reckon our mum would have loved them!
You see whenever she opened a bottle of milk us kids would straight away nick the bottle top, for some reason kids used to collect them, and to seal the milk bottle mum would use a sheet of newspaper and tear it and roll it up into the shape of a cork and shove it into the neck of the bottle, so you see these metal gismos would have been really useful back then :? incidentally there are four of these gismos in a presentation case, could anyone explain to me why on earth anyone would have four part - drunk bottles of wine open at the same time?
I think things are starting to get away from me :(
 
Bottled It

8) JerryD tut alors,, You Uncouth Youth :)

The Four (4) Bottle Stoppers are requisite in Haute Couture naturellement

Ze 1st is for Cheeky Red,s 2nd for Sparkling White,s 3rd for Dom PerigComo :P

AaaHa the 4th, Ze special chrome one :?: ,, Well this is for the Following Morning :!:

After imbibing copious quantities of 1,2 & & 3 Apellations above denoted
The 4th Stopper is for the Khasi 2-step dance,, Oooh Hurry :twisted:
 
Did you guys ever wrap a marley in the school milk bottle tops? The lads in my class used to make little jackets out of them with a tail. Don't know what they did with them though!!!??? Probably meant for chucking at us girls.
 
Never did that but we used to make skimmers or flying saucers - rub the foil top on a smooth surface 'til you get all the creases out, hold rim of top between crossed first and second fingers and flick!

( Full step by step instructions and blueprints available for a small consideration ) :lol:
 
Marley Mangler

:shock: Di my precious luvvy :) Your describing the Marley Mangler :?:

Foil top folded around Marble with point creased sharp out,,,

Clenched tight in fist, point through fingers :twisted: Extra grip,weight & "cutter" :wink:

Early style Knuckle duster (hidden) useful in Laddo Land 8)
First to draw blood Won the fisticuffs,,

:oops: Just a reminder to you Girls of "Why" you used to hate Us so :roll:
 
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