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Alex: you’re good. Who are Vasconcellos, and why no website for them?

‟Butler Nephew & Co.”, according to a graphic on home.swipnet.se/~w-33067/port/4produ.htm:

You and Uncle Tom should communicate, as he might also be interested.

At New York’s lunch time tomorrow, that being Thursday 20th March 2008, I will decant a bottle of port for unfancy family drinking in the evening. Should the port be Graham’s 1980 or Ramos Pinto 1985? Background: we have enjoyed several RP85s in the last few months, and have two remaining. But, in c...

Madeira Blandy Bual Gran Cama do Lobo Solera 1864 ~ 1 @ $675 Bual Lamelino 1820 ~ 1 @ $900 J. Henriques Boal Solera 1898 ~ 5 @ $525 Henriques Verdelho Solera 1898 ~ 7 @ $525 Madere 1858 ~ 1 @ $1650 Moscatel 1900 ~ 2 @ $645 Sercial Dry V.O.R. D`Oliveiras 1910 ~ 1 @ $525 Sercial Gordon Cossard 1905 ~...

Actually, in sending invitations to the speakers of Deutsch and Nederlands, I’ve discovered that TPF has more Dutch-speakers than German. Dutchies: please consider yourselves asked the same question, with Nederlands replacing Deutsch.

TPF has a small number of German speakers. Should there be, on the front page underneath Miscellany Corner , a new section called Non-English , initially featuring just Deutsch ? Of course, such a section would be worthwhile only if it was likely to contribute to an influx of more German speakers. M...

Hello and welcome indeed.

I’m the Pedant-in-Residence, but I’m nice to those whose native language is not English.

[url=http://www.theportforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=11338#11338]Here[/url] EricD wrote:Butler & Nephew

What happened to Butler Nephew? There is mention on the web of B&N being bought by Vasconcellos, who also don’t have a website. What happened to either of them? And is the name correctly written with a ‟&”, ‟and”, or neither?

When? Please suggest early-May dates. What? It seems that people aren’t objecting to O & O . Please say what treats you have. And where? One possibility, date dependent, is, again, the increasingly traditional Bistro Citron : Unless there’s a better plan, we’ll meet at the place that is becoming...

I also thought that the Graham’s was replacing the Ferreira.

I also put a link to TPF in Google Directories, and had previously caused like for FTLOP.

Thanks for letting us know Roy. Three years ago I hosted a family meal at Tavern On The Green . Food entirely ordinary, at best. But an impressive tipping policy: the check had two lines for tips, one for the ‘Captain’ and one for the lower-ranked staff. Maybe TOTG has improved in the interval. 67 W...

OK, so by PM ac-fast has been invited to start a thread about himself, but, me being a team player, in the style of the other admins, I have not done so myself.

Uncle Tom’s system is a simple ranking. 0 for the worst 5%; 1 for those between 5%ile and 15%ile; 2 for those between 15%ile and 25%ile; 3 for those between 25%ile and 35%ile; 4 for those between 35%ile and 45%ile; 5 for those between 45%ile and 55%ile; 6 for those between 55%ile and 65%ile; 7 for t...

After seeing your headline, claiming that there was a six-pointer at St Andrew's, I was assuming that both sides had played their Joker. Supporting a side that has not been in the Premiership for a while, I had no idea what the current rules were and taking the juicy bits from Jeux Sans Frontieres ...

Allow me to be pleased that the jdaw-tdk is being used.

With planning for the April tasting suggesting LBVs, let’s do something a little more random in May. Bottles of Barros 1947 and 1952 are ‘cluttering’ my collection: would there be interest in a theme of O ld and O dd, though vintage nonetheless? I’ll be in the UK the third week of May (including a t...

Derek T. wrote:Here is that wikipedia link

Hurray for me! I put that there.

AHB wrote:I must confess, that is the best user ID that I have seen to date.

Seconded.

Welcome. Please do say something about yourself.

KillerB wrote:

Derek T. wrote:20th of June

First post at 10:17PM

Are you two minutes late? The first post is labelled “Posted: 16:15 Wed 20 Jun 2007†, where my timezone is GMT-5hr, which would be 21:15 GMT or 22:15 BST.

Not that it helps at all with Conky’s sensible question.

Good subject. But I verify that “Best† means “best at time of drinking† rather than “best quality when this wine eventually reaches its peak†. (IMHO makes a huge difference for Fonseca 1985.) Best four, in alphabetical order, were Fonseca 1963 , Fonseca 1966 , Fonseca 1970 , Noval 1963 (Queens’ C...

Conky wrote:What would make you weep?

The Bank of England reforming, again, the implementation of monetary policy, and getting it wrong, again. Please no: the answer isn’t difficult.

My night off from fighting Joe Frazier. That’s all.

Conky wrote:peace

Conky wrote:drug taking

Conky wrote:The Worlds gone mad!

Weep!

And Mark David Chapman is still inside, and will probably stay there.

Makes me weep.

Quite what makes me weep I’m not saying, especially after Conky’s recent—albeit gentle—reprimand.