rad0 <PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu> wrote:

> I was on a plane, and the stewardess had a silverware spoon
> resting in the neck of a champagne bottle, -- she claimed it kept
> the fiz in the champagne....
>
> well, is there any basis what so ever, for this??

    Two minutes spent searching the web produced these:

    http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/lunchcalc/spoon/spoon/spoon.html
    http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_121.html

    -Andy


=== Andrew Warren --- aiw@cypress.com
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=== Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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