The Modest Genius

“— And what is that ‘Drink to the bottom’?
— Don’t you know how vodka is sealed nowadays?! There’s such a little cap made of soft metal with a tail. Pull the tail—the metal tears, and the bottle is opened. And you can’t close it with that sealing anymore; whether you want to or not, you have to drink to the bottom. That, too, is a bright leap in technical thought.”