Pressure inside from fermentation of the dregs?

Or feline Molotov cocktail?

You may never know.

--Fil

I'm glad neither of you were in there when it happened.  and that Persia
obeyed her Mommy and stayed out of there until you could clean it up (I
shudder when I think of kitty paws walking on broken glass).  Weebs made a
fine choise in girlfriends :D

But on another note, this reminds me of way back long ago, I was helping Mom
clean the fridge.  We removed everything (all the food that could fit went
into the cooler, some of the other "won't hurt if it sets out for an hour"
food went on the dining room table), all shelves got washed, interior wiped
down and then everthing put back.  Right about the time we started to put
the shelves back we heard a *POP* from the dining room.  Didn't think much
of it, thought it was either my brother or Dad getting something from the
cooler & letting the lid fall back down.  We started putting the food back
in, that was when we noticed that a can of biscuits (you 'Merkins know what
I'm talking about) had explded all over the dining room!  We could do
nothing but laugh.  There were raw biscuits stuck to the walls, china
cabinet and sliding glass door to the balcony!  The glass was easy to clean
up - but the wall.... never realized that biscuit dough was that greasy!
Good thing we had sturdy wallpaper!

Misadventures with glass bottles...reminds me of the time I went and
got a huge order of lasagne at the Italian take-out place. After I get
back home I'm sitting at the table with a plateful of mouth-watering
lasagne, pouring a big glass of Coke to wash it down with. All of a
sudden the glass slips out of my hand and dumps its contents all over
my plate of lasagne! Argghh! So I swear and scoop out the contents of
the plate into the garbage, refilling it with the rest of the lasagne.

When I sit down again at the table, I grab the Coke bottle for a quick
drink before tucking into the food, and by now the cold bottle has been
sweating for several minutes and is covered with condensation. What
happens next is like a scene from some silly contrived movie as the
slippery glass bottle slides right out of my hand, hits the very edge
of the plate and flips it into the air sending the entire steaming load
of lasagne into my lap, plus the bottle itself!

Yeeeeek! As the burning lasagne starts to fry my tender parts the cold
Coke adds its own charm to the whole experience as I frantically swipe
at the mess, sending lasagne all over the floor. Then I sit there
staring in disbelief at my ruined meal, my sodden pants, and my
splattered kitchen floor. After a few shocked moments the complete
absurdity of it struck me and I started laughing at the top of my
lungs, roaring away for several minutes before I finally sputtered to a
stop and began cleaning up.

Some things are so ridiculously awful that you just have to laugh. I
hope that you will enjoy this true story of one man's battle with The
Evil Coke Bottle Of Doom.

Lesson:  Never recork an empty wine bottle..

Tweed

Several years ago, my favorite glass lamp exploded.  It was not turned on
and had not been turned on for several weeks.  The only thing I could
think of was perhaps the sound of a jet plane going over could have caused
it.   Any other ideas?    MLB

That's pretty bizarre! A Kamikaze wine bottle. The strangest thing that
happened to me was to have a glass shower door give up the ghost--loudly--in
the middle of the night for no discernable cause. Luckily, I was able to
shut the bathroom door before the cats got in there to investigate. It
scared me silly! To this day, I don't know what caused it.

Melissa

Thank goodness neither you or Persia were next to it when it happened.

I'm so glad to hear you weren't hurt.
Best wishes,

Oh, man, I bet that scared you to death. I'm sure there's a scientific
explanation, and I also bet Howard can tell us exactly what it is!!

Sherry <--- Thinks Howard is handier than a dictionary

Not really. Wine is just rotted grape juice - leave some in a sealed
container where it will get warm and it continues to ferment. More gas. More
pressure...