How to open champagne with a shovel:
Ingredients:
1) sparkling wine w champagne-style cork;
2) two hands + arms;
3) heavy sharp(ish) edge.
Method:
A) hold wine bottle at base and turn to find seam in glass that will run from base to spout;
B) point seam upwrd
C) point bottle neck away from yourself and friends;
D) hold heavy steel instrument like you’d hit a backhanded backspin with a tennis racquet;
E) lay heaviest part of blade alongside bottle, about halfway down, pointing sharpest edge up toward neck;
F) settle;
G) thrust forcefully upward & stroke glass ring just below cork…
Et voilà!
Like beer bottles with lighters, only classier.
that means a lot coming from the Lord of Versailles, JP