No Fucking Way

The New York Times features the slang of Sommeliers (wine experts who work at restaurants, apparently) and had this tidbit (h/t Ritholtz):

Sommeliers use a range of words and phrases to describe diners, based on their spending on, or interest in wine. For example:

WHALE · PLAYER · BALLER · DEEP OCEAN

A serious drinker who will regularly DROP more than $1,000 on a single bottle. When on a furious spending spree, a WHALE is said to be DROPPING THE HAMMER. BIG WALES – or EXTRA BIG BALLERS (E.B.B.) – can spend more than $100,000 on wine during a meal.

Wait, $100,000 spent on wine during a meal?  Are they buying for an infantry division?  Seriously?  And people will say that rich folks are taxed too much? That is criminally absurd.