[QUOTE=zoid]
Well I will say this; I’ve never opened a bottle with a fake cork to find that the lower third of it has corroded away into the wine.
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Or have it tear apart if the cork screw didn’t go deep enough or drop bits of cork if you went too far.
I just have a couple of big decorative glass jars that I toss the corks into. A couple friends of mine who have been married for years do the same thing–they have several huge jars filled with the corks from every bottle of wine they’ve drunk since they started dating.
My friend makes decorative bulleton boards from them. She collects them until she has enough and then glues them together and creates a nice craft from them. I have no use for a bulleton board and so I dunno how pragmatic hers is, but it looks nice.
Replacement head corks for concert flutes.
For an example of the kind of flute I mean, there is a pic and some recordings at http://www.flutesite.com/hamilton_flute.htm.
I also used to experiment with making keyless flutes out of PVC, and wine corks work fine for head corks there, as well.
–James
[QUOTE=lieu]
My, what marvelous memories many of you possess. 
MsRobyn, what with you being a Cowboy fan and all, you let me know next time any acquaintance of your starts another “Onward march” rant and I’ll be happy to provide you with all the corks you deem necessary. No charge, on me, gratis, I couldn’t possibly resist!
That, my friend, is the best use for them anyone could possibly come up with. 
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I needed a cork after the Stillerz actually won the Super Bowl. If I ever hear that damn “Here we go! Steelers! Here we go!” song ever again, I will personally put that cork where it might not want to go.
Robin
[QUOTE=Mama Zappa]
Am I the only one to have seen the thread title, and Lieu’s name, and been very, very afraid of what the thread contained? :eek:
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No. I was thinking of the bad childhood joke which ends something like:
“All I could see was that poor monkey trying to stuff the cork back in!”
As to the OP, we band them together and use them as a trivet. Right now it’s getting too large, so we’ll probably make a fancy schmancy bulletin board by putting a frame around them.
The synthetic ones become projectiles, though.