January 24, 2006

Little tube of mighty pow'r,
Charmer of an idle hour,
Object of my warm desire.
~Isaac Hawkins Browne, "A Pipe of Tobacco"






Henry VIII
Sure Had Trouble
Short Term Wives
Long Term Stubble
Burma Shave



Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh Billings




COFFEE
part 2 of 23
  • Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.
  • After the decaffeinating process, processing companies no longer throw the caffeine away; they sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
  • After they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
  • An arabica coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending on soil and climate.
  • Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a sixfold increase since 1940.



    • The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.
    Leo Tolstoy



    "This is the biggest CD I've ever seen!" -- On first seeing a record.



    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    Andrew JohnsonLegislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
    Andrew Johnson



    Suppose you want to send in the mail a valuable object to a friend. You have a box which is big enough to hold the object. The box has a locking ring which is large enough to have a lock attached and you have several locks with keys. However, your friend does not have the key to any lock that you have. You cannot send the key in an unlocked box since it may be stolen or copied. How do you send the valuable object, locked, to your friend - so it may be opened by your friend?



    Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.



    I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.



    All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.