Open a Wine Bottle Without a Corkscrew

It happens to every wine drinker at least once. After agonizing over the perfect bottle to crack open, you realize the corkscrew has gone AWOL. Luckily, there are plenty of other tools you can use to get into (and to the bottom of) your favorite bottle of wine.

http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Open_a_Wine_Bottle_Without_a_Corkscrew

That sounds much better than the 'just push the cork in' method. I must get round to repainting my kitchen ceiling...

the amount of beer bottles ive opened with my teeth, and pliers, if only it was corked to

The favorite method used to be snap the neck of the bottle off with a piece of string and lighter petrol or 4 star, or snap it off on the edge of a table and sieve it with your teeth.