Another excellent piece of writng, OMG. But of course we have come to expect nothing less from you.

I'm especially impressed how you never once used the word "wee-wee". Bonus points there.

Thanks Yum. Yeah, it was a struggle to avoid the silly and the profane.

The explanation of "Having broke the seal" is really just an excuse to keep making trips to the bathroom to do other stuff without drawing too much suspicion.

The soup person poster "holds some water" if you know what I mean. At least its true in some of the bars I know of on Harford Road.

Anyway, I think "breaking the seal" is more likely for those that drink beer. Because there is much mor volume in a beer (12 oz or more) than lets say, a shot of bourbon.

Good post, Owl. We've often surmised on this very subject.

We even have a contest on whether one can keep from breaking the seal whilst drinking one shot of beer once a minute, every minute, for one hour.

Now, you think its easy: its just a 1-2 ounce shot of beer at a clip. But its once a minute, every minute, for one hour. It works out to be about five 12-ounce beers. I did it successfully once, but I did it right after eating and had not had a previous drink that day. I thought, heck, that was easy.

Then it came time to get up off the barstool. Man, was I loaded!

I have to say, I never even heard of this phenomenon before, so your exploration here is illuminating. Thanks for providing the link from Dining@Large, I wouldn't have stumbled on this site on my own.

Striking picture, btw.

Of course there is a way to beat the cost-benefit equation of breaking the seal: Depends.

Thanks Filbert, if that it your real name.

On the artwork, I took an ordinary photo of a champage bottle exploding and manipulated it with Picnik.Com. Picnik is a free site that is REALLY easy to use and has a lot of very sophisticated effects. It's also good for resizing, cropping, sharpening and has a one button autofix function that makes all the colors look better on some photos. Don't ask me what it does. For more tricky stuff I have to use Photoshop-type software.

Elizabeth Large pointed me to Picnik last year so that I could easily resize images to 500x500 or less to fit in some blogware limit.

If you are interested, I have posted the original photo and the manipulated one on my personal blog:

http://owlmeat.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the link to your blog, Owl Meat. That's an interesting assortment of stuff you have there. The cuban sandwich poem was fun, did you write that yourself?

Filbert is an old family name.

Yes, Filbert I wrote that. The week after the City Paper published it they stopped publishing poetry forever. LOL. I got paid $65 for it, which is a lot per word.

INAPPROPRIATE!!!

Uh-oh. It appears Sue Hopper is back from her summer vacation...

When I worked backstage for the opera and hung out with stagehands, we'd go out after to un-lax with a few beers after show-week rehearsals and shows. I was fine for maybe 3-4 beers, but once I "broke the seal," I visited the powder room every 15 minutes. This was fine until we closed the bar and held "parking lot parties." Ever see a toilet in a parking lot? I didn't think so.

Thanks for your post.