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The Grape Juice Conjecture, Solved

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The grape juices of wrath are now on sale at Hofer.

Today is the last day of August and the summer is nearly done. Meteorologically speaking, it’s been a lousy three months, but in terms of solving mysteries, it’s been excellent. First, it seems that the eccentric Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman has proven Thurston’s geometrization conjecture and, by extension, the Poincaré conjecture. Meanwhile, here in Slovenia, Boštjan has solved the equally famous Slovenian Grape Juice conjecture, as first posited here. Both discoveries are equally tremendous.

Like the International Mathematical Union, I wanted to award Boštjan a large stipend in the form of nearly €10,000 for solving this seemingly uncrackable mystery. But, much like Perelman, Boštjan refused.

Still, the fruits of his effort can be enjoyed by all, especially me. For behold, on sale today: red and white grape juice!

Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 to Slovenia

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  • 1

    Hm… WP keeps telling me that it cannot find the original “unsolved mystery” post, so please refresh my memory. Was it about only red grape juice being available?

         by pengovsky on August 31, 2006 at 8:53 am

  • 2

    I’ve tried it, “mošt” is better.

         by seba on August 31, 2006 at 8:55 am

  • 3

    Peng, I think it was about grape juice not being available at all. (btw, Michael, your page is all weird when I open it in Opera…)

         by cornelius on August 31, 2006 at 9:52 am

  • 4

    @cornelius: Oh, alright… Thanks. Good thing Hofer came to Slovenia then ;)

         by pengovsky on August 31, 2006 at 9:56 am

  • 5

    Iiii… there’s Master Trump with his funny hairdo watching me enjoy Carniola - creepy.

         by alcessa on August 31, 2006 at 11:20 am

  • 6

    What’s even creepier is his supposedly beautiful wife. Sure they’ve got money, but they’re a couple of freaks…

         by cornelius on August 31, 2006 at 11:38 am

  • 7

    oh, the 1st prize for creepiness gets drni and his pre-independence moustache

         by cija on August 31, 2006 at 12:37 pm

  • 8

    Actually, THAT particular image of our Janez D. gets 2nd prize. Namely, if you took a close-up photo of his mouth and moustache and rotated it at 90 degrees, you got something of a dirty photo. The first prize goes to current image of Janez D. He looks like an alien escaped from Roswell.

         by pengovsky on August 31, 2006 at 12:42 pm

  • 9

    AND my friend informed me the other day that they’re selling bluberry juice at Target.

         by Tina. on August 31, 2006 at 8:24 pm

  • 10

    Tina: All’s well that ends well. Now if only a Taco Bell would move in, I could finally start punishing my body the way it needs to be punished and never have an unsatisfied culinary hankering ever again.

    Also: I fixed the old original link. (Thanks Domen!)

         by Michael M. on September 1, 2006 at 12:42 am

  • 11

    I said it once, I’ll say it again.

    Slovenia is a dangerously healthy country! Where’s Taco Bell, Wendy’s, Fuddruckers?

         by Carlitos on September 1, 2006 at 10:28 am

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