Originally Posted by
markinberks
If you want to be really flash, the ultimate way to have your champagne opened is by placing the bottle on top of a cascade of glasses and have a cavalry officer slice the top off with his sword. Does rely on the accuracy of the swordsman though and there might be a problem getting the sword through security
I've never understood this sword business. If you slash at the bottle there will be an undrinkable mess; if you cut the top off the cork level with the top of the bottle it will not come out. If the cork is still in place when the wire is removed it is being kept there by the friction between the bottle and the inserted part of the cork, the top is doing nothing.
Always sounded like an urban myth to me.