I'm seeing double...no tripple.....flives, that is for this achoholic deight!

Thanks, Mark. Very funny comment, btw, reminiscent of what happens after getting wasted on Cisco.

I did some research about Cisco wine and learned that that is considered not only a beverage dessert wine, but "liquid crack" as mentioned in your top comments. According to BumWine.com, they mentioned that the FTC also forced them to drop their marketing slogan, "Takes You by Surprise," even though it was entirely accurate. I didn't like the OS as a kid, but your parody really fits the OS very well! I quote Waldo from "Family Matters" about drinking: "I swore off. Booze gives me a British accent!" Let me toast you with some 5's!

Yeah, t'aint worth it, but your parody is. I have a wine parody in the works.

Andria - We have wine day at work - That is when we set aside one day and everyone whines about their jobs. I drank a lot when I was much younger - now I may have one snifter of wine on New Years eve. When I drank I was once told that I had a drinking problem. I said what problem - I drink, I fall down... no problem. Back in the day the military glamorized alchohol consumption. Military organizations would have outings and alcohol consumption went off the scale. A few times I downed so much alcohol that the next day the hangover was so bad that when I'd check the paper, I'd have an honorable mention in the obits.

WC Fields in a French Restaurant:

WC - I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
French Waiter (FW) - I'm sorry monsieur but we are out of horse.
WC - Well then bring me some duck.
FW - oui monsieur - will monsieur be dining alone or perhaps ha ha ha maybe a lady friend will join you?
Ah yes - I would have my lady friend here but she had a terrible accident.
FW - Sac le bleu monsieur what happened?
WC - Well she's a dancer and she got her heel caught in her ear ring doing high kicks.
FW - All ze beautiful ladies in Par-ee dance in ze "can can"
WC - They dance in the can can do they? Well if they had to pay 10 cents over here like they do in the states there would be a lot less dancing in there.
WOuld monsieur perfer a little brandy with dinner? I heard that Napolean loved brandy.
WC - He liked brandy huh? I heard he was a card cheat
FW - Napolean? a card cheat? Well would monsieur like some brandy?
WC - Yeah yeah - don't beat me over the head with it just bring me some.
FW - Snifter?
WC - What'd you say?
FW - Snifter?
No, I must have missed her. Was she headed for the can can?

I do some drinking parodies, in fact I wrapped one up this morning - look for it next week sometime. It's nothing great. One of my better ones is done to the Steely Dan OS "Deacon Blues" which I call "Sneakin' Booze" If you want to check it out here is the link.

http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/steelydan105.shtml

If you DKTOS the youtube link to the os is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inz9Sa_CVFs

Your parody is most excellent and I got a buzz just from reading it. You put a lot of work into this. I'd toast it with a shot of Four Roses but they'd have to change the name to Five Roses in order to do that. I learned the term Bodega from Law and Order on TV - someone is always getting offed in a bodega. The other term I learned on Law and Order is LUDS. Fine write and I hope you like my story telling.

Don't know the specific brand, but I assume it's from the same level of such vintages as Wild Irish Rose, MD 20/20, and so forth. Your parody, however, is pure Chateau Lafitte Amiright.

I dont know about Cisco wine but where I grew up its a cider called white lighting 7% strong (I know not exactly 20%) but consider you drink it pint by pint it can take down even the most competent drinker down in 4 -5 pints. Good use of lyrics Andria i give 555% proof

I grew up in an Italian neighborhood and they made a fine vintage called dago red. It had the kick of a mule and the guys that made this stuff were from the old country. Alot of them were retired coal miners and in the summertime they grew huge gardens. They would work in the gardens for hours on end and always have a jug of their home brew while working but never did you see them drunk. They had no tolerance for drunkeness but they could drink a half gallon over a period of six or more hours while working their gardens and never get snockered.

Thunderbird was another brand of rot gut. We called MD 20/20 Mad Dog 20/20 because it would turn you into a mad dog. And I also have never heard of Cisco Wine. I'm an IT professional who is currently working networks and communications. I thought when I saw Andria's title that it somehow had to do with Cisco Systems Corporation who is to routers and switches what Microsoft is to operating systems. Cisco is the world leader in network hardware and software. So when we have Whine day at work I whine about Cisco because their systems are so complex that the frustration level can get you to stroke out when troubleshooting a problem. - Guy

A finely aged ode to misspent youth... :D

Thanks Christie... I read that FTC press release, and in addition to being required to can their slogan, they had to label every bottle "Not A Wine Cooler" because it tastes something like a Bartles & Jaymes with a strong alcoholic overtone and an aftertaste to match, in addition to being banned in certain jurisdictions, thanks 2Eagle, this parody was certainly worth the 6 days I put into it, and I'm looking forward to your wine parody, thanks Guy, "wine day" sounds like a blast, we have the same thing where I work around lunch hour every Friday, it doesn't have an official name but just gets called "piss and moan time", and the story was great, thanks OMR, EXACTLY the same vintage, thanks Gari, we just call that "hard cider" Stateside and illegally-produced whisky gets called "white lightning" here, thanks again, Guy, even though it was more for OMR than me, and thanks to Fiddlegirl. I may just have to have a drink of alcohol after I write this. (NOT Cisco, though. Sorry for those who want me to turn into an idiot. ;-)

Enjoyed your poetic whine about wine...

lol...never heard of cisco...sounds like a treat, alright

Thanks to AFW and Alvin.

Wine, wine, whine...

Thanks, TT. LOL at your comment, by the way.

Cisco and Wild Irish Rose are made by the same company (Centerra Wines, formerly known as Canandaigua Wine Company), which has the dubious distinction of being the US' largest supplier of fortified wine.

A fine wine parody. This brought to mind the song "Cisco Kid" by War. But he drink whiskey, Poncho drank the wine. Might be a sequel in there somewhere for you. :-)

Haha, code was XXX, which is what you see on moonshine jugs in all the cartoons and comics. :-D

Thanks, blackjack21.

(ABC) Use to be 'Boone's Farm" in my day, but they all "get you there".

(ABC) A very hard song to do, indeed. The best parts were the "toasting" sections (where the singer does the ska-style rap). The chorus does't leave much room for further creativity.

Thanks, Mark and Agrimorfee.

Not too bad... Remind me never to drink this stuff... Ever! By the way, Thanks for the warning.

sounds like paint stripper! i dont drink, now i know why! lol. dam fine parody (hic!) 555

(ABC C/D) Nice to read this again! Never get tired of this song and your satire! I would never be caught dead drinking Cisco, that's for sure!

Thanks, Matthias... indeed vile and disgusting, Cisco is, thanks, Tomario... you want paint thinner-flavored alcohol, look for Everclear, moonshine or poteen (all just about pure grain alcohol)...and thanks, Christie. For a cheap wine, let me recommend anything by Arbor Mist or Carlo Rossi, I think I've had a little too much of the former's strawberry white zinfandel tonight. :-)

Cisco Wine ain't a friend of mine, but this was still a good one. 555

I have to be honest Andria, I had trouble following this. . .it didn't seem to pace quite right, perhaps it was a different version (this song has been released in several ways) The idea was pretty funny, I've never heard of Cisco Wine, so I'll take your words on it. . .

(ABC-CD) I'd say that I've never heard of Cisco, but that's as surprising as, say, discovering the sky is blue. Still, very good parody, 555, blah blah blah. (ps OMG DID U KNO THE SKY IZ BLU ZOMG).

ABC- Not bad, never heard the original song though.