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April 04, 2008
The wine expert
A joke from a decades-old book I rediscovered recently.
The scene was Elaine's Restaurant on Second Avenue in Manhattan on a crowded Saturday night. A stranger walked in from the street and pompously announced that he could identify any wine served there - even with a blindfolded.
The challenge was immediately accepted. A dark cloth was placed over his eyes and wine after wine was handed to him.
"Lafite-Rothschild, 1958," he would announce. Or, "Bernkasteler Badstube, 1951." And he was always right.
Finally, someone handed him a glass he couldn't identify. He sipped, and then he sipped again. Suddenly he spat it out and pulled off the blindfold.
"Hell! This is urine! Plain fresh urine!"
"Yes," said a small voice in the background, "but whose?"
Posted by joke du jour at April 4, 2008 06:37 PM
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