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Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Wine Cellar?
theodp writes "Ever get carded by your FedEx guy? You will. Several writers at GeekWire had just unboxed, uncorked and polished off their first bottle of Amazon wine, only to have their buzz killed by the need to cover Steven Sinofsky's unexpected exit from Microsoft. With the caveat that per-order shipping charges will discourage those watching their pennies from ordering single bottles of inexpensive wine, GeekWire gave the overall Amazon wine buying experience a thumbs-up." Since Amazon-owned Woot's been selling wine for a while, it may be a stretch to call it new for Amazon, but their main site is known to many more people.
... is there a story here? Or is this just an ad for something?
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You're welcome, Major Asshole.
Last time we let you people transport alcohol you invented NASCAR and we are NOT going to let that happen again.
America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, badass speed. -Eleanor Roosevelt, 1936
You can buy anything ate any supermarket here. We even have beer tastings in the supermarkets. Yes, I live in a state and I have seen the same happening in other states.
The states I am talking about? Flanders, Bavaria among many others.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Minnesota allows you to do this. And we have winter and wolves. What could be more fun than wolf hunting in the snow?
Making the wolves write your name in the snow at gunpoint.
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