Breaking News: France makes the buying or selling of old growth vineyards illegal...

[GliderGuider]

... as part of their efforts to combat terroir-ism...

Badabump...

[mix]

1. a little arcane, but mildly amusing

:thumbsup:

[UndertheOcean]

2. huh ???

[xchrom]

3. I love they do stuff like this.

Farming and the old are cultural treasures.

[Lyric]

4. This is a joke, right?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. You should be shot.

Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

For those innocent of the meaning of this truly, abominably awful pun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terroir

[GliderGuider]

7. The highest honour a punster can receive

is to be shot by his audience. Thank you, thank you!
:toast:

[Demoiselle]

6. Good.

What if somebody with an anti-alcohol agenda bought an old growth vineyard and burned it down?
Sacre Bleu!!!
I am entirely with the French on this.

[Iterate]

8. I'll drink to that and make some toast,

"in the freedom of our common spirits, to the victor belongs the soils".

To the bararcades! The armies are mustered in Dijon!