Not so ostentatious after all
I was having dinner with my parents a few months back, and they'd dug a bottle of 2005 Shiraz out of the wine cupboard to go with it. Neither of them could remember where it had come from, and they decided it must have been a gift to my dad when he retired. It turned out to be an excellent wine, and after dinner my mum decided to look it up on the internet and see how much a bottle was going for these days. A few minutes later, she ran back into the room shouting "I found it on eBay, and it's selling for $467 a bottle!". My dad and I were duly impressed, and she went off to post on Facebook and tell all her friends about our guzzling of expensive wine.

Later that evening, I idly googled the wine and found the eBay listing, and indeed, the price was $467. Sadly for my mum's bragging, however, it seemed she had overlooked the part where it mentioned that said price was for a case of 12 bottles...
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Sat 30 Jul 2011, 5:37, 3 replies)

Aaaaaahh, bless!
They're lovely at that age, aren't they?!
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(Mao's stepson is doing his bit for East/West relation's, Sat 30 Jul 2011, 7:30, closed)

Yes, but did you tell them?

(boozehound is drinking your bar dry, Sat 30 Jul 2011, 12:37, closed)

Eventually

(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 2 Aug 2011, 13:52, closed)