This is why newspaper comments are valuable

There sure is a lot of chaff to sort through on your way to the wheat, but every now and then there something that reminds me of the good in newspaper readership. They’re not all illiterate, knee-jerk racists.

For example, in today’s Winnipeg Free Press, they’re highlighting a story of recovered two-century-old beer from the bottom of the Baltic. The story comes with a picture:

The tale is mouthwatering:

Divers who found what’s believed to be the world’s oldest drinkable champagne say they have also discovered two-centuries-old bottles of beer at a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea …. Researchers who tried drops of the dark, foamy liquid liked the taste of it.

But what really made me laugh was this comment, by “kiov”:

They must be quite valuable given the care that is going in to protecting them. I always place all of my rare, breakable artifacts on a stack of papers on the edge of a desk while I send emails a few feet away.

Ha! Touché!