[AnAmericanMother]

I was being deliberately old-fashioned when I said it (being an absolute newbie I didn't want to sound too Episcopalian) and it certainly got a reaction. . . I must have sounded like a 75-year-old nun.

My husband got me a bottle of Cockburn '55 for my 40th birthday (in 1995). We had people lining up to beg a thimbleful . . . .

I've switched over to Taylor Fladgate for some reason.

"Once it's been opened, you know it won't keep,
Do have a bit, it will help you to sleep!
Oh, have some Madeira, my dear!
I have quite a small cask of it here . . . . "

[Mad Dawg]

I haven’t heard those. Full data please?

I once had a 100 year old Madeira and once one that one 120 years old! No kidding! They were awful but you could tell they once were great.

Flanders and Swan! Ou sont les funnymen d’antan? My mom was at Oxford with Flanders.

[Judith Anne]

She was young, she was fair, she was new, she was nice,
She was ?, she was sweet seventeen.

He was old, he was vile, and no stranger to vice,
He was bad, he was base, he was mean.

He had slyly enviegled her up, to his flat,
To see his collection of stamps (all unperforated),

And he said, as he hastily put out the cat, the wine, his cigar, and the lamps,

“Have some madeira, m’dear, it’s ever so much nicer than beer.

And from there on, I can’t remember the lyrics well enough to write them down. :D