You’ve heard of wine clubs, right? Well, what about wine pawns?

According to Slashfood, the Crédit Municipal de Paris is accepting wine as collateral for loans to its customers.

A spokesman for the pawnbroker says that this move attracts customers who wouldn’t want to pawn jewelry or the like, but a valuable bottle of wine is discreet enough to remove from the home.

Funny thing … in our house, alcohol would be one of the first things we’d notice missing!

There’s a Monty Python skit in there somewhere, I just know it!

“Bring out your wine! Bring out your wine! … ”

Jim’s mom sent me this, and I’m gonna be a lazy smurf and post it here

FOUR THINGS you may not have known about me:

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Babysitter
2. Drive-through cashier
3. Billing clerk
4. -

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Undercover Brother
2. Hellboy
3. The Princess Bride
4. Fifth Element

Honorary 5th: Star Wars
Honorary 6th: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Birmingham
2. Mobile
3. Corner
4. -

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. CSI (original series)
2. Mythbusters
3. The Closer
4. Psyche

Honorary 5th: Monk

E) Four places I have been on vacation
1. Miami, FL
2. Sacramento, CA
3. Ybor City, FL
4. New Orleans, LA

G) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Tom Kha (Thai coconut soup)
2. Mom’s roast beef and gravy
3. Taco soup (YUM!)
4 Homemade turkey dressing

H) Four places I would rather be right now:
1. New Orleans, LA
2. Ybor City, FL
3. someplace warmer than here!!
4. someplace warmer than here!!

(LOL!)

I) Four people most likely to respond to this survey
1. Mara
2. Teresa
3. Ben
4. Jeff

According to my calendar, today is St. Victor’s Day. Today we celebrate the Martyrdom of St. Victor (courtesy of the classic Contractual Obligation album). Let the eating of ice cream cakes begin!

BTW, anyone using iCal, Sunbird, Google Calendar, or any other .ical enabled calendar software/service? I got my Geek Holidays shared — but it needs updating badly, so keep an eye on it lol!