February 7, 2006

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
... David Daye






Ben met Anna
Made a hit
Neglected beard
Ben-Anna split.
Burma Shave




Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes




COFFEE
part 16 of 23
  • Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
  • Scandinavia has the world's highest per capita annual coffee consumption, 26.4 pounds. Italy has an annual consumption per capita of only 10 pounds.
  • Special studies conducted about the human body revealed it will usually absorb up to about 300 milligrams of caffeine at a given time. About 4 normal cups. Additional amounts are just cast off, providing no further stimulation. Also, the human body dissipates 20% of the caffeine in the system each hour.
  • The 2,000 Arabica coffee cherries it takes to make a roasted pound of coffee are normally picked by hand as they ripen. Since each cherry contains two beans, it takes about 4,000 Arabica beans to make a pound of roasted coffee.
  • The Arabica is the original coffee plant. It still grows wild in Ethiopia. The arabica coffee tree is an evergreen and in the wild will grow to a height between 14 and 20 feet.



    • There is no friend as loyal as a book.
    Ernest Hemingway



    I just had an interesting conversation with my sister. She was talking about the "carcass" of a printer.

      Me: "You mean 'cartridge'? 'Carcass' is a dead body."
      Her: "Oh, yeah, cartridge! But a dead body is a 'cork'."
      Me: "'Cork'? You mean 'corpse'?" Her: "Uh, yeah."



    OUR FOUNDING FATHERS
    Andrew Johnson Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.
    Andrew Johnson



    A beggar's brother died, but the man who died had no brother.
    How could this be?



    Golf is a good walk spoiled.



    If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.



    Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.