beercan
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Oso alert !!!!!!! Tequila goes Gold !!!!!!!!
Top Mexican tequila sells for six figures Fri Jul 21, 12:54 AM ET
Forget about the kind of tequila you slam down on the bar or knock back at parties in throat-burning shots with salt and lemon. If you're paying six
figures, you might prefer to savour it in small sips.
An impossibly upmarket brand of tequila -- 100 percent blue Agave lovingly aged for six years and sold in a limited edition platinum bottle with fancy
artwork on the label -- went on sale in Mexico on Thursday night for $225,000 (121,000 pounds) a bottle.
"Tonight we are trying for the Guinness Book of Records with the most expensive bottle in the world," Fernando Altamirano, chief executive of producer
Tequila Ley .925, told a launch party for the liquor.
Tequila Ley .925 has produced 66 bottles of the "Pasion Azteca" tequila, half of them pure platinum bottles and half of them gold and
platinum-decorated bottles that sell for the slightly less extravagant price of $150,000.
"Since we started out, we began with the idea of making the finest, most expensive bottle of tequila in the world," Altamirano told Reuters.
For those on a smaller budget, there are 999 bottles of the same tequila in silver and gold bottles priced at $25,000.
Showing off one of each type, Altamirano said they had already been sold to a collector, but declined to give away the buyer's identity.
Altamirano, whose company has won awards for its stylish bottles, said his next goal was to create a million-dollar tequila bottle made from
diamond-encrusted platinum and auction it at Sotheby's next year.
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thebajarunner
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Little boy brings home a $10,000 dog.
Dad, "How can you afford a $10,000 dog?"
L.B. "Traded two $5,000 cats for him."
Let me know when the first check is passed over the counter.
yuk yuk yuk
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beercan
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Runner !!!
With yuk yuk jokes like that , you must be hanging with the boys over at the "Red truck" place ???
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thebajarunner
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Actually, it was meant as an honest (and brief) commentary on the likelihood of achieving the anticipated price for a bottle of mescal...
and hey, the "Red Truck" boys can't be all wrong, there sure are a lot of them...
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beercan
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I can't remember the name of the company---
that built the "red engines" in the '60s-- I used to drive one of them -- probably one of the best Fire Engines ever built !!
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They'll get it. Rich people have rich friends and things are not always what they seem to be. When you buy something rare that is difficult to
price, what you pay for it becomes its value and the base for its next sale. If conditions are right...
And no, I'm not bidding.
All my childhood I wanted to be older. Now I\'m older and this chitn sucks.
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uhhhhhhhh,
call me when the green hits the table.
meanwhile.....
yuk yuk yuk!!!
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jimgrms
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Question how did rich folke get so rich it they are dumb enough to spend that kind of money for a bottle of booze ??
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