J. firm that made cork bottle caps and insulation that contained asbestos.

FORBES: An Affair to Remember

My favorite is drinking rabbit feces in hot tea, followed closely by sticking voodoo pins in the cork of the bottle that bit you.

FORBES: Drink Some Rabbit Droppings And Call Me In The Morning

In his quest for a way to contain the bubbles produced during fermentation, and thus to make the wines from his monastery's vineyards in Champagne sparkle, he tried replacing traditional wooden bottle stoppers with new-fangled cork ones.

ECONOMIST: Wine

The mating song of the male has been described as beginning with a resonant rattle, continuing with a pop-like a cork being pulled from a wine bottle, followed by the pouring of a liquid out of a narrow-necked bottle and ending with the sound of knife grinding.

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Had his influence not been so vast, people might never have known the meaning of cork taint an off taste usually caused by contaminated cork that affects roughly one bottle in every two dozen.

ECONOMIST: Wine

But few of today's imaginative ideas would have made it onto drawing boards without cork's competition from screw-top bottle caps, plastic stoppers and aluminum Tetra Paks.

WSJ: Cork's Popping Potential

Instead of bulging at one end when squeezed at the other, cork distributes the load and so narrows across its length which is why a cork is easy to push back into a bottle.

ECONOMIST: MONITOR

Goldberg, now 52, spent most of that day crawling under seats looking for bottle caps with pictures of professional ball players glued onto the cork linings.

FORBES: Build It and They Will Come

The question is, after that, will they be able to keep the inflation genie in the bottle or will they have to keep raising interest rates to keep the cork in?

NPR: Doing the Math on Inflation Figures

Bouchon--French for "cork"--wasn't a man, but instead a suit stuffed with the traditional bottle plugs.

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