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Within an hour of having opened it and inspected its contents, I accidentally kicked over an entire bottle of wine on that LP-sized book. To ask the obvious: what's to do?  :'(

What a waste of wine.  :'(

Blame the waiter?   :(

Heart-felt sympathy.

I'd buy a second but hide it from She Who Must Be Obeyed…

 :lol :lol :lol to the both of you...

It's probably the kick you needed to stop drinking that much!

 :-D well, I am so careful, what with my OCD about prized possessions... and this was the first time that I actually decided to take things a bit more loosely.

Reminds me of the time I bought a 5 disc box set (not this one), put them in a plastic carrying case, and knocked it off the counter, resulting in the CDs falling out and the carrying case smashing three of the discs.

I'm the same regarding OCD for CDs at least -  I didn't open my box for about a week, until all the family were away… it's now back in its packing case waiting for a special moment again…

I was gutted a few years ago when a friend's dog ate a Neil Young CD and a John Martyn CD. Gutted…

" The glass was raised, the fired-roast
The fullness of the wine, the dim last toasting
While at port adieu or die"

is this just coincidence?????

Hm... interesting observation...

Oh, Don, I'm sorry  :'( Even I, the resident drunk of the board, managed to not spill my wine on my Smile box. I made sure, upon pouring out the glass of wine, that I positioned my box away from hazardous substances. Seeing as I live in a student house in South London, it was necessary to ensure that my Smile box now lies in a vacuum sealed capsule somewhere in the Scottish highlands, safe and sound.

Moral of the story: Don't open your lovelies while your drunkies.  :police:

I am not entirely sure whether you're talking about Smile Sessions Boxes here.

Was it really a bottle of wine, or was it a can of caffeine-free diet soda? ;D

Wine, bought for the occasion. Whilst playing CD1, I licked the book dry.

The rest of us should rejoice as our pristine sets are now worth just a few cents more on the collectors market.  If hypehat can be persuaded to drop his in a toaster, guitarfool2002 smothers his in Marmite and Pixeltwin smears his in lovelies, my own box will be damn-near priceless.

I'm not going anywhere near it with this mug of Douwe Egberts, mind…

 :lol

I wonder if anyone will use their Sessions box to create a "dick in the box" gift this holiday season?

Directions from SNL-  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhwbxEfy7fg

 :lol

That's classic! Which Neil Young CD?

I had a similar mishap to THD when I bought an LP of The Many Moods of Murry Wilson for 50 euros and on my way through a large and somewhat threatening potted palm standing between me and the record player, scratched all of side one... 

 

For my 14th birthday years ago my parents very kindly bought me a lavish Queen boxset called "Box of Tricks". Within literally about a minute of owning it my dickwad of an older brother attempted to open the pullout drawer within the elaborate packaging by trying to lift it up, thus ripping the entire left side of the box. I still haven't forgiven him.

Also a week or so back I rather foolishly attempted to grab a cd from the bottom of the stack of my ever growing record collection. Before you could yell TIMBER!! forty odd cds had crashed to the floor. I'm incredibly anal about my music collection; any scratch or scuff on a case and it has to be put in a new one. That was a bad day.

I doubt your as anal about your music collection as some people are on the Hoffman board. :)

"For my 14th birthday years ago my parents very kindly bought me a lavish Queen boxset called "Box of Tricks". Within literally about a minute of owning it my dickwad of an older brother attempted to open the pullout drawer within the elaborate packaging by trying to lift it up, thus ripping the entire left side of the box. I still haven't forgiven him."

He did you a favor.  You should embrace him.

One of the reasons why I smoke herb rather than drink...less risk of f*cking up the package!







That sounded dirty...

This is more or less why, for a few years in there, I was typing everything without paragraph breaks no matter the length of the post: first a lovely friend, then I myself, had some incidents with wine and the computer I was using. The result was a still functioning machine, minus a few keys here and there (Enter/Return among them). It having been a not-inexpensive Mac laptop, I wasn't about to discard it.

As this post proves, eventually the problem was resolved.

Tough luck with the book, though. Want mine?

Was it red wine? Was the book actually opened? If it was only white wine and it only spilled over the hard cover, you may be in luck. Just pat it dry and put it somewhere where it can dry out for a day. Hopefully it won't leave to big of a stain. If it's red wine, and the pages got wet, well...you're screwed.  ;D If I had an extra one I'd send you mine.  :)

My sympathies to the Don..

What a tragedy

 :-D :-D :-D :-D

Luther... if that's a joke, I'm not upset. If the offer really stands, PM me. I am not really in the position to buy another box for quite some time. And we could have sex together, by way of a thank you...

...oh, and it was red and heavy wine. Pages gulfed and glued, front and back covers ruined.

Get your coat Luther, you've pulled.

At least you could listen to the TSS! Mine was lost in mail, and I was promised a new one by Amazon last Sunday and received it... two hours ago! Yay!

Zuma

Oh... Watson, The Game's Afoot! (Zuma is known for it's super-high-pitched frequencies... beyond the CD Red Book Standard). That is/was one intelligent dog!

Good God! Was the dog okay? Like, sincerely - I can't imagine shards of plastic are easy on the stomach. When I was really young I smashed a CD and attempted to flush it down a porcelain toilet with metal pipes, and it didn't take too kindly to it at all - I can't imagine what it'd do to yer stomach. :(

How did the flushing sound?

The dog was fine. Didn't swallow anything. Just left Neil and Johnny in tatters. And me in te…

It would have been somewhat ironic had the cd been Arc.  ;D

Now Arc is a big favourite of mine. If you've ever walked through Glasgow city centre at 8.45am, listening to Arc through headphones, you realise it's the aural soundtrack to Danté's Inferno, and Glasgow is its physical realisation.

If the pooch had chewed Arc, his next meal would have been a Spice Girls CD.

I actually quite like Arc. But then again, I like You Know My Name(Look Up The Number) and Revolution 9.  ;D

Don just read your predicament and it made feel sick! Man you must be soooo pissed...

Have you decided what you are going to do?

Thanks for your commiserations! An angel stepped in already...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdCUpiI1MSA

Was the cd Summer In Paradise or Stars & Stripes Vol. 1?

Kinda like "CCCCHHHHHHHHSSSSSHHHHHSHSSHSHHHHCCCHHHHH". All my birthday money, gone :( the toilet didn't work correctly ever again, really, and it was replaced about a decade later.

Hm. A toilet that's not working getting a replacement 10 years later?  ??? ??? ???

*giggle* didn't work correctly! It worked well enough, but was fairly temperamental. I was actually kind of sad to see it go.

Oh... so that smell in the last decade came from somewhere else...

I spilled a Zima on Zuma once.  :p

SHHHHH. You're wrong, Don. WRONG.

I think you've got a couple options here.

1. Drink less.

or

2. Keep wine bottles away from your feet.  A handy place to keep a wine bottle if you're partaking is on a table. 

Oh, and my own destroyed music story:

When I was a kid, I found a bunch of 45's in a closet inside a new house we moved into.  I listened to them over and over again, loved all of them... one night, my brother and I got into a fight, so he threw one of my records at me, which shattered against the wall.  It was Elvis Presley's "In The Ghetto".  I was heartbroken.

When he went to sleep, I hit him in the head with the record player.  I am not kidding.  Probably the most evil thing I've ever done, LOL.

Kids are awesome. I once witnessed my two year old cousin not-so-gently smash one of those huge early 90s plastic tape recorders over his older brother's head. Unprovoked, I might add.