Wednesday, April 4, 2007
070404 - En tantalus
...är ju lätt da shit! Min vän Johan öppnade för några månader sedan mina ögon för denna obligatoriska inredningsartefakt. Ett litet barskåp med nedsänkta flaskor som låses fast om man vrider om nyckeln. Klockrent för den som inte vill ödsla finspriten på vem som helst.
Wikipedia skriver bland annat så här om klenoden:
The name "Tantalus" is the origin of the English word "tantalize". The idea is being that when a person tantalizes someone else, that person is making them like Tantalus: there is something desirable that is always just out of that person's reach.
A Tantalus, by an obvious analogy, is also the term for a type of drinks decanter stand in which the bottle stoppers are firmly clamped down by a locked metal bar, as a means of preventing servants from stealing the master's liquor. The decanters themselves, however, remain clearly visible.
Inte så politiskt korrekt kanske, men kul.
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