Quote Originally Posted by James MacMillan View Post
The blade is for cutting the metal foil on the top of the wine bottle, and then you twist in the little screwy thingy into the cork, sort-of like a cork screw, then you put the hooky thing-a-ma-jig on top of the bottle and pull up till you break the cork. Then you push the cork pieces down into the bottle and pour the wine though a napkin, so as not to choke on the cork, but you do spill a bit and get wine all over your hose (but missing the kilt!) thereby forcing you to die the hose a very dark green.

Or at least that's how I remember it!
Oh I see, poor you, you drink the old stuff. Us more refined just unscrew the cap or drink directly from the box.