Don't drink varnish By: Reverend   Feb 1-2006 A friend of mine likes to make home-made wine, and sometimes gives me a bottle. He likes really sweet wine, and he knows that I like really dry wine, so whenever he messes up and makes dry wine that he doesn't like, he gives it to me. So far, this symbiotic relationship has worked well. However, the other night I tried some stuff that made me question the wisdom of drinking down the results of a wine-makers mistakes. It was apple, dry but not too strong, and it tasted fine. I had three glasses, and was deathly sick the next day. That's unreasonable! Perhaps his mistake was accidentally tipping some wood alcohol into the barrel. Or maybe he's just trying to kill me with poison wine, I dunno, but when I was lying in bed, sick, languishing, I composed a little rhyme to remind me not to eat or drink anything that is considered a failure by it's creator. "Home-made apple wine is like drinking chocolate turpentine it tastes so good you drink more than you should and then you die before your time" p.s. The discerning reader may have noticed that I added a rants section, and moved some of my longer posts over there. The rants will be for whenever I go off on a tangent that's too long for the main page.