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In article <QamdneDGdY4nhM7PnZ2dnUVZ_oGdnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

> On 2013.10.07 01:52 , Your Name wrote:
> > In article <C4-dnWWdUf7WeczPnZ2dnUVZ_oydnZ2d@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
> > <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
> >> On 2013.10.06 18:24 , Lewis wrote:
> >>> In message <michelle-9F52F7.08272206102013@news.eternal-september.org>
> >>>     Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> wrote:
> >>>> In article <slrnl52na2.km2.g.kreme@mbp55.local>,
> >>>>    Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Nah, let others talk about it.  In the meantime we can talk about Mac
> >>>>>> OS X 10.10, reportedly codenamed "Syrah" internally.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Really? That seems like an odd name.
> >>>
> >>>> It's a type of wine.  The internal code name for Mavericks was
> >>>> "Cabernet",
> >>>> which is another kind of wine.
> >>>
> >>> Ah, I only knew Syrah as a grape.
> >>
> >> I hear some people make juice from grapes and can even (get this)
> >> ferment the juice into wine and then distill the leavings into spirits!
> >
> > Yep, but as with most things, it tastes much better in the original
> > form (inside the grape) before some fool mucks about with it.  :-)
> 
> Sez u.

It also smells disgusting.   :-)




> > Some people even stupidly leave the grapes out in the sun until they go
> > all shrivelled and disgusting .
> 
> One of the earliest forms of food preservation and storage.  Early high 
> tech. ca. 10000 BCE - and likely earlier.

You have to wonder how many of those early "scientists" were killed
after trying to eat various things they left outside in the sun for
days / weeks to go bad.   ;-)

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Mavericks update Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-04 18:29 -0400
  Re: Mavericks update Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-04 19:25 -0700
    Re: Mavericks update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-05 12:43 +0000
      Re: Mavericks update Bread <BreadWithSpam@Fractious.net> - 2013-10-05 09:01 -0700
    Re: Mavericks update Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-05 09:12 -0400
      Re: Mavericks update Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-05 07:43 -0700
        Re: Mavericks update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-06 12:53 +0000
          Re: Mavericks update Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-06 08:27 -0700
            Re: Mavericks update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-06 22:24 +0000
              Re: Mavericks update Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-06 18:29 -0400
                Re: Mavericks update Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-06 16:05 -0700
                Re: Mavericks update George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-06 19:06 -0500
                Re: Mavericks update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-06 23:39 +0000
                Re: Mavericks update Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2013-10-07 12:06 -0400
                Re: Mavericks update Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-07 18:52 +1300
                Re: Mavericks update Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-07 16:29 -0400
                Re: Mavericks update Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-08 19:30 +1300
              Re: Mavericks update Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-06 16:04 -0700
      Re: Mavericks update George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2013-10-05 10:08 -0500
  Re: Mavericks update FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2013-10-05 01:30 -0400
    Re: Mavericks update Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-04 22:53 -0700
      Re: Mavericks update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2013-10-05 05:51 -0400
        Re: Mavericks update Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-06 09:41 +1300
      Re: Mavericks update Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-05 09:14 -0400
        Re: Mavericks update Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-10-05 07:46 -0700
          Re: Mavericks update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-10-06 12:56 +0000
            Re: Mavericks update Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-07 09:18 +1300
        Re: Mavericks update Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-06 09:45 +1300
          Re: Mavericks update Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2013-10-05 19:23 -0400
    Re: Mavericks update Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2013-10-05 19:32 +1200
      Re: Mavericks update Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2013-10-05 09:38 +0200
    Re: Mavericks update Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-05 07:40 -0700

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